Obama Campaign Tries to Shut Down Chicago Radio Show
Members of Barack Obama’s campaign HQ in Chicago tried to shut down a local radio show on the City’s most powerful radio signal, WGN 720, because they didn’t like a conservative guest that was on going on the air to discuss Senator ...

Top Ten Future Employment Opps for Jay Mariotti
I'm sure he doesn't like to see, or hear, three-quarters of the population of Chicago dancing and singing in the streets because he no longer writes for the Chicago Sun-Times. Those folks like Pete Gaines, a long time non-reader because ...

Life Without Jay Mariotti
Rick Telander says that with Jay Mariotti gone, the healing can begin in Sun-Times sports.

The Chicago Way
I moved to Chicago in 1982, not too long before Barack Obama did, but, unlike him, I can't recall that I ever once thought of getting involved in Chicago politics. To me, wanting to be a Chicago politician would be like me wanting to be ...

Obama’s “Brain”
Ayers was one of the original grantees of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a school reform organization in the 1990s, and was cochairman of the Chicago School Reform Collaborative, one the two operational arms of the CAC. ...

The 'Chicago school' of tenors
Ammons' father certainly belonged to a Chicago school of piano. I might even consider the spacious playing of Ramsey Lewis, Ahmad Jamal and John Young to form a Chicago school of the next generation of pianists. ...

Quote of the Day (Sort Of)
Peggy Noonan in the WSJ: …At Republican conventions they express sympathy for this woman, as they do for those who are entrepreneurial, who start businesses and create jobs and build things. Republicans have, that is, sympathy for ...

Chicago in for a rain-free Labor Day weekend
displays while bypassing much of the Chicago area late Thursday, deposited downpours of 3 to 4 inches and have moved on. Rain-free weather is predicted well into Tuesday. The air mass responsible is to stall in coming days as air, ...

Obama campaign confronts WGN radio
The magazine had been blocked in its initial attempts to obtain records from the University of Illinois at Chicago regarding the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which Obama chaired and Ayers co-founded. The school later reserved its ...

Fantasy Energy
Megan McArdle [h/t Instapundit] writes:. There’sa lot of optimism on both the center-left and the right that all we really need to do to tackle the problem of global warming/peak oil is throw a hell of a lot of money at the problem, ...

The Chicago Sun-Times Won't Even Attempt To Contain Its Excitement
I'm sorry I don't have anything funny to contribute, but oh my GOD does this keep getting funnier and funnier or what?! The Ghost of Lucky.

Rage Against the Machine Mayhem at Lollopalooza in Chicago
A few weeks back on the weekend of August 2nd I spent a few days in Chicago with friends. On Friday we attended the Chicago Cubs vs. Pittsburgh Pirates game at Wrigley Field and then spent the evening at Lollapalooza. ...

Dance! Dance! Dance! Dance! Dance! To the Radio: Put Me on the ...
A producer for a show on WLUW Chicago 88.7 e-mailed me about contributing to his show after reading my post, Neighborhood/Town study #1 Logan Square. I quickly replied saying I would be honored to talk about my former neighborhood. ...

Dance! Dance! Dance! Dance! Dance! To the Radio: Put Me on the ...
One of the largest Ensemble projects in American Theater Company history, American Theater Company's staging, helmed by head writer Leigh Fondakowski, marks the Chicago Premiere, as well as the 30th anniversary of the Jonestown Massacre ...