R. Bruce Dold

I've decided where I want to be at midnight. The Walgreen's across from the office. Up at the counter they're selling a little furry snowman with a top hat called...

CNN performed a great public service this week. While the president's lawyers and friends tried to head off impeachment in the House Judiciary Committee, the cable network flashed the ups...

A decade ago, a lot of people looked at Mike Espy and saw a kid from the Delta who could be the future of the Democratic Party in the South....

The 2000 election campaign looks to be a modest one in these parts because Illinois won't have a race for the big-ticket offices of governor and U.S. Senate. The focus...

While he waits to learn if Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) or anybody else has the nerve to run against him in February, Mayor Richard Daley has been busy picking his...

George Ryan and Newt Gingrich are about as different as Wilford Brimley and Mickey Rourke. So the next governor of Illinois might figure he has nothing to learn about the...

Some random questions, useful numbers and a couple of obits: Is Michael Madigan more lucky than good? The grand plan hatched by the speaker of the House was to push...

This is the last chance to stop a billion-dollar mistake. There is an election on Tuesday for Cook County Board president. The campaign ads for Democrat John Stroger and Republican...

The letter got to Judge Dan Locallo two days before he was going to decide how long Frank Caruso Jr. would rot in prison for beating Lenard Clark within an...

It's a funny thing about the gender gap. It can swallow you up even if you're a woman. Here you have a man, Bill Clinton, who has made some big,...