RuPaul gets his Faux-bama on for holidays
While RuPaul still dresses in drag, his holiday season is anything but. The country's most famous drag queen, who shot to fame with the 1992 hit song "Supermodel (You Better...
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Family touts its dog for governor
The dog-eat-dog world of Illinois politics has a new gubernatorial candidate to get tongues and tails wagging: a 14-year-old deaf border collie. A California family has launched an Internet campaign...
Governor’s wife supported his pay-to-play Senate scheme, complaint alleges
An unflattering portrait depicting Illinois First Lady Patricia Blagojevich as a modern-day Lady Macbeth who plotted against her husband's perceived enemies and backed his corrupt schemes emerged in court documents...
First lady under the lens
An unflattering portrait depicting Illinois First Lady Patricia Blagojevich as a modern-day Lady Macbeth who plotted against her husband's perceived enemies and backed his corrupt schemes emerged in court documents...
Michelle Obama’s family tree has roots in a Carolina slave plantation
GEORGETOWN, S.C.—Tiny wooden cabins line the dirt road once known as Slave Street as it winds its way through Friendfield Plantation. More than 200 slaves lived in the whitewashed shacks...
A FAMILY’S JOURNEY BETWEEN WHITE HOUSES
Tiny wooden cabins line the dirt road once known as Slave Street as it winds its way through Friendfield Plantation. More than 200 slaves lived in the whitewashed shacks in...
Scenes from Obamas’ love story
In keeping with a time-honored tradition, Barack and Michelle Obama cast their presidential ballots together on Election Day. They stood in side-by-side booths looking every bit the poised, professional power...
WILLIAM “BILL” SHAW: 1937-2008
William "Bill" Shaw was one of the Chicago area's most controversial politicians, half of a team, with his twin brother, whose power was once counted upon as an election force...
This was once the Obamamobile
Natasha Brown knows what drives Barack Obama, or at least what he used to drive. The 21-year-old Broadview woman owns the 2000 Dodge Neon that once belonged to the president-elect....
They met Obama when …
After the man with the big ears and the funny name became president-elect of the United States, Chicagoans were happy to tell their stories, boasting to anyone who'd listen about...