The high cost of downtown parking – in 1970
Four decades ago, Chicagoans were complaining about the outrageous prices charged for downtown parking. Sound familiar?
Four decades ago, Chicagoans were complaining about the outrageous prices charged for downtown parking. Sound familiar?
Will County’s Walsh scoffs at the notion that it’s trying take advantage of Jackson’s being out of the picture.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney introduced Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his vice presidential running mate on Saturday.
Chicagoans are celebrating back to school in this year’s Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic.
Friday on Worldview: The murder trial of Gu Kailai, the story of a Maya massacre and plans for an international weekend.
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn is reiterating his support for gay marriage in Illinois.
The law that exempts ultra-orthodox Jews from serving in the Israeli army has just expired. There’s a push to begin drafting them immedately. Israeli politicians face the possibility that if they continue to exempt the ultra-orthodox, nearly 50 percent of their eligible draft-age youths will be exempt from the draft in less than ten years.
Innocent Chia, a former journalist for Cameroon state television and Richard Joseph, a professor of political science who has written about Cameroon, explain what might have driven seven Olympic athletes from Cameroon to disappear during the games. Then Yaakov Katz, military correspondent and defense analyst for the Jerusalem Post tells us about the history of conscription in Israeli and the current changes to the system. And, in our Global Activism series, Estafan Salame, special advisor to the Palestinian Minister of Planning, tells us about the Seraj Library Project and its work building libraries in rural villages in the West Bank.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said the U.S. Senate did it’s part in passing a farm bill and he wished the U.S. House would do the same.