Every year, shortly before midnight on New Year's Eve, I tune in to the local countdown specials on TV with genuine excitement and anticipation.

Rich SamuelsHe may be Chicago's most literate and thoughtful broadcast journalist, but there's no room anymore for Rich Samuels.

Program hosts at WGN-AM (720) have been ordered not to react on the air to a political commercial that alleges Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) is gay. Paid for by one of Kirk's opponents in the Republican primary for U.S.

In the first few minutes of the year 2000, planes were supposed to fall from the sky, nuclear generators were supposed to explode, elevators were supposed to stop dead, and clocks were supposed to spin around wildly. At least that's what the media told us might happen.

I think I first fell in love with the idea of being a newspaperman after watching "The Adventures of Superman" as a kid.

All of a sudden, everybody's trying to break in to Cook County Jail.

Ron MagersCitadel Broadcasting's bankruptcy filing claimed its first Chicago casualty Monday: Ron Magers, No.