Adam Dunn is in the running for a very rare feat, reserved for only those who walk, strike out, and hit home runs a lot; as bad as the Cubs have been this season, they’re actually a decent team in the Friendly Confines.
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.
Could Mitt Romney’s VP choice render Dold—who voted for Ryan’s budgets in 2010 and 2011—a one-termer?
Two centuries after the incident, which took place around what’s now Roosevelt and 18th Street, we’re now fighting over whether it was a “battle” or “massacre” and what that means.
Barack Obama has been polling well recently, with just a couple months to go until the election. Will Paul Ryan push him over the edge? Or will voter turnout, and new voting laws, pull him back?
The blog and snarkshop gets serious, for a moment at least, and suggests that Americans don’t really care about the city’s ongoing problems with homicide. But it sort of depends on how you define caring.
A look at recent controversies involving the village’s cops
They may not be solely to blame for the village’s problems, but in many ways, the Yarbroughs seem more interested in their own family and political fortunes than in governing and helping their town.
Village officials say the $100,000 reward evaporated—but did they check with the bank?
Most cop murders get solved. But nearly six years after Maywood police officer Tom Wood was gunned down, the killer is still at large and the investigation is in shambles. Who murdered him and why aren’t the only nagging questions
