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The vote on the city budget is due very shortly. Here’s what to expect, since all signs point to an easy passage for Mayor Emanuel’s first crack at Chicago’s finances.

The conservative Ross Perot goes viral when he stumbles over a question about Obama’s handling of the Libyan uprising. Here’s video of what happens when you get trapped in the rules of the game.

Two recent pieces cast light on our inability to deal with the overlap between immigration and criminality, an extension of our bewildering, confused approach to immigration. But there might be hope yet.

London, ringed with fire; a Nazi terrorist in Chicago; America’s secret war in Africa; when fairyland was the most sinister place people could imagine; and two dispatches from Sigrid Schultz, the Tribune’s longtime Berlin correspondent.

Speeding cameras, cell-phone tickets, decriminalization, and water fees: the latest front in the city’s scramble for revenue.