Belle of the Blog: Three decades after steaming up the pages of Playboy, Candace Jordan is attracting eyeballs again—this time with her clothes on—as a sought-after party guest and cyberscribe. Circulating among the city’s socialites, she chronicles swank galas and charity auctions on her blog—required reading for Chicago’s see-and-be-seen set
In April’s letters: List lamentation and the great gun debate
Welcome to BLAG!, our once-a-week recap of The Celebrity Apprentice 2010, this season featuring Rod Blagojevich, Illinois’s ousted governor, currently awaiting trial on corruption charges. Airing at 8 p.m. (central time) Sundays on NBC-TV, this reality show pits formerly semi-famous (or in Blago’s case, infamous) celebs against each other to win the approval of mega-mogul Donald Trump and his daughter…
The longtime political reporter Ben Joravsky didn’t think much of Evan Osnos’s profile of Mayor Richard M. Daley in the March 8th issue of the venerable weekly as evidenced by this reaction piece, which posted yesterday at the Chicago Reader’s website…
Yet again, the speaker faces a Republican with a long history of voting Democratic
Will he or won’t he? Within Chicago political circles, that’s the question on everybody’s mind. True to form, the sometimes inscrutable Richard M. Daley hasn’t said one way or another whether he’s going to seek a seventh term next year. But read the tea leaves and you’ll see that, despite the year from hell in … Read more
Board Game: One reporter’s retirement plan: a construction crane, blowtorches, and a treasure-trove of old wood
By the Numbers: Bad news about our state and city
A century before Craigslist, salacious ads started appearing in Joseph R. Dunlop’s Chicago Dispatch
In March’s letters: Fort Dearborn semantics and Top Doctors tiffs
