Prop 8 lawyer's Supreme Court argument: Babies and timing

Mar. 26, 2013
Charles Cooper argued that marriage is for making babies, and that maybe this whole same sex thing is moving just a bit fast. Is that really all the gay marriage foes could bring to the Supreme Court? 

Schools debate heads downstate

Mar. 25, 2013
An influential Illinois state senator wants the state to get more involved in Chicago’s public school issues.

Quinn: Pensions need funding guarantee

Mar. 25, 2013
Gov. Pat Quinn says any overhaul of Illinois' worst-in-the-nation pension problem should have a funding guarantee.

Year 25: Toni Preckwinkle

Mar. 25, 2013
Many of you know Toni Preckwinkle as a longtime Chicago politician. Currently, she's Cook County Board President, a seat she's held since 2010.Before that, she served for almost 20 years as alderman of the 4th ward.But where was she at 25?

If you are reading this piece instead of spending time with your child, you are a child abuser

Mar. 25, 2013
I had a Twitter friend, a pretty normal lady, who had a baby a few years ago, but then I think having the baby must have given her brain disease.

Emanuel: CPS school closures 'not taken lightly,' but must be done

Mar. 23, 2013
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks for the first time about the decision to launch the largest single round of school closures in American history.

CPS closings, Beavers conviction result of corrupt system

Mar. 22, 2013
The closings of 54 schools and the conviction of William Beavers, a longtime commissioner and alderman, are the results of a long, enmeshed system that gives the mayor unprecedented power and breeds corruption, both big and small.

Illinois House passes pared down pension plan

Mar. 21, 2013
The Illinois House approved a pension reform plan on Thursday aimed at reducing and delaying cost-of-living increases for retirees, its third such stripped-down proposal geared toward chipping away at solving the state's nearly $100 billion pension problem.

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