While in town for four Sunday fundraisers, the president sees a woman who hosted one of his first fundraisers as a Senate candidate, and demonstrates character and memory that runs counter to his icy image.
The eastern shore of Lake Michigan, from northwest Indiana up through western Michigan, is historically one of the most dangerous spots for rip currents in America, and not just because a lot of Chicagoans vacation there.
Far from an increased culture of dependency, federal welfare spending has been in decline since the passage of welfare reform—and it’s put a squeeze on the Illinois budget, as it’s scrambled to keep up while state block grants aren’t adjusted for inflation.
16-inch softball’s aristocratic roots; investigative journalism from Ida B. Wells; a teacher and a librarian get busted for a Bridgeport grow-house; and a violent year at Harper High.
After being accused of trying to end welfare reform as we know it, the Obama camp responds by bringing up the Massachusetts welfare-to-drive-to-work program, itself a descendent of the 1996 welfare-reform law.
In their upcoming book on Rod Blagojevich, Chicago Tribune reporters Jeff Coen and John Chase write that the former gov once threatened to fire an aide if he revealed a secret: that Blago had voted for George H.W. Bush. “If you ever repeat this, first I’ll deny it, secondly I’ll wait a little bit, then I’ll fire you,” Rod had told the aide…
OUTDOOR MODERN: The auction-house owner and gallerist pick Persol sunglasses, Marni boots, and more
In Elk Grove Village this week, Mitt Romney accused the president of destroying welfare-to-work and bringing about a new culture of dependency. Here’s how a bit of bureaucratese turned into the latest front in the culture war.
Lists just out from Politico ranking donors to the two presidential candidates show that, on the Democratic side, Chicagoan Fred Eychaner ranks number one. On the GOP side, at number nine with $2.3 million for Mitt Romney and other Republican PACs and candidates, is Chicago hedge fund billionaire Kenneth Griffin…
Last month was the second-hottest July in recorded Illinois history, and the nation’s hottest in 118 years of records. And that heat, and the dryness that came with it, hit the state and its neighbors the hardest.
