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Well before the drought brought down the water on the Mississippi to historically low levels, boats on the Mississippi were already operating under restrictions—not because of a lack of rain, but of money.

The GOP is looking to take a majority in the Senate, and Claire McCaskill was seen as a vulnerable Democratic incumbent. So how did they end up with a loose cannon like Todd Akin? With a lot of help from McCaskill.

On Chicago Tonight, the CPD head lays out his rationale for no longer offering individual-recognizance bonds to gang members for misdemeanor offenses.

Thanks to Mitt Romney’s choice of running mate, the Objectivist author is back in the political spotlight again, emphasizing the influence fiction can have on the realities of governance.

The great Paul Tough goes from Roseland to Washington to figure out what Barack Obama has done about poverty; a fine-grained look at a bureaucratic housing nightmare; and the latest on the MF Global debacle.

An attempt to put some real numbers behind a fake stat that compares violence in Chicago unfavorably to that in Afghanistan’s war zones offers mixed results.