Rex W. Huppke

Like most Illinoisans, I'm eager to find out which billionaire will purchase the Governor's Mansion later this year. The current purchaser, Democrat J.B. Pritzker, is making a strong bid to...

Nobody in their right mind wants to test positive for COVID-19. If you're the mayor of Chicago and you just resolved a tense standoff with the Chicago Teachers Union that...

Acknowledging I'm awesome is never easy. It risks drawing attention away from my handsomeness and intelligence. Such is the yoke I carry across my broad and chiseled-from-marble shoulders today as...

The current Chicago Public Schools mess is a perfect microcosm of this country's increasingly boneheaded handling of the coronavirus pandemic. I'll put it in the form of a parable: A...

As we mark the first anniversary of the domestic terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol, you'll read much about how it was one of America's darkest days. That's accurate, of...

Hello, beloved humans, and welcome to the seventh-annual edition of Rex Huppke's Guaranteed-Accurate-Never-Wrong-Grade-A-New Year's Predictions, an annual event cherished by 10s of people. As regular readers know, I once walked...

And so it comes one December day, a word no parent wants to hear: Doubt. Doubt in the Christmas tales told to us since we were old enough to wobble....

From the roof of a two-story building in Little Village you can see cars stretch down South Lawndale Avenue, waiting to turn east on West 27th Street and pick up...