Opinion: Lori Lightfoot is Losing the Plot
While Mayor Lori Lightfoot continues her over-the-top audition for no one to be the next face of the CNN docu-drama, “Chicagoland,” the city she was elected to lead is spiraling out of control.
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Comment: Dan Bernstein and "The One That Got Away"
Dan Bernstein's nearly 30-year tenure at Chicago sports radio station 670 The Score ended last week following a controversial social media exchange. Craig comments on the whirlwind and Dan's tweet that got away from him...
An Introduction to AI-Assisted Analysis in Illinois
Curious about how AI and humans can team up locally? Explore this deep dive on Illinois corruption as a real-world experiment. Hopefully, AI can help us unite data-driven analysis with creative understanding for a smarter, more transparent future. Either way, this is only the beginning.
Opinion & Comment: Let's Go, Brandon!
Contributor Wink Swindell cheers the Mayor's 6.6% approval crash, his $830M bond spree, and sanctuary city bravado. He urges the mayor to go all-in, ignore fleeing business and debt, and embrace a raucous spiral into the People's Republic of Chicago's glorious unknown. As long as he gets a piece...
Gallery: Photos from protests outside the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago
In August 2024, as the Democratic National Convention took place in Chicago, protesters gathered in the streets to voice their opposition to the ongoing conflict in Gaza and U.S. foreign policy. This gallery captures moments from those protests.