Sports
Respect for the Game
Ryne Sandberg understood that when a kid looks up at you with wide-eyed admiration, you don’t make a fool out of them. A tribute to the Cubs legend who respected the game, and us, too much to let us down.
Opinion & Comment
Opinion & Comment from the Chicago Journal.
Opinion & Comment
Comment: The Bell Tolls Not for Madigan, but for Thee
The sound of a once-mighty machine is replaced by a resounding crack of a gavel, the final note in a symphony of corruption, patronage, and unchecked power that spanned more than half a century.
Opinion & Comment
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...
Satire
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...
Satire
'Just another day,' say residents of city startlingly numb to shocking violence
People living in the city where this kind of violence routinely occurs reportedly concluded that there was no way to prevent this violence from taking place.
Opinion & Comment
Comment: ICYMI eleven kids 16 and under have been shot since Sunday afternoon
Since 4:00 p.m. Sunday afternoon, eleven kids 16 and under have been shot. Two of those eleven are dead. A total of 58 people have been shot in the same timeframe. Nine of those 58 people have been killed. Enjoy the weekend.
Opinion & Comment
Comment: Police pursuit of Garfield Park murder suspects abruptly terminated
A 56-year-old man was shot and killed Saturday afternoon near the intersection of California and Flournoy in the Garfield Park neighborhood and the police pursuit of the suspected murderers was abruptly terminated as officers closed in. Craig has some brief thoughts.
Opinion & Comment
Comment: Neil Steinberg said what?
Neil Steinberg published a column in the Chicago Sun-Times last week that had everyone talking and Craig just couldn't help himself.
Chicago Journal
Comment: The Chicago Journal is not the Chicago Journal
Public Service Announcement. The Chicago Journal is not the Chicago Journal and the Chicago Journal is not The Chicago Journal.
Opinion & Comment
Comment: My Old Fashioned Guy
Everyone in Chicago has a guy for something and, after a brief break, in Craig's first column back he wanted to write about his Old Fashioned guy.
Opinion & Comment
Comment: Understanding the thick context around the Mayor's diction
He's been hard on the mayor but she's never been soft and he knows she can take it as good as she gives it. Craig offers a surprising defense of Lori Lightfoot and does his best to help non-Chicagoans better understand the thick context around the mayor's diction.
Podcast
Chicago Journal Podcast: Madigan's Magical Mystery Machine
On this episode of the podcast, Craig's talking about what everyone's talking about and revisits something he wrote about Mike Madigan back in the summer of 2020. He also talks a little...or a lot...about Lori Lightfoot's latest quotes.