The Amorous IMF Boss, Strauss-Kahn With all the uproar over French Socialist IMF boss, Dominique Strauss-Kahn chasing his chambermaid ar...

...Like A Cigarette Should Please note that Chicago Schlager Saturday has moved over to the Chicago Schlager Music Review.

Why is it that the chief apostles of individualism in our time, Ayn Rand and Ron Paul, seem to spawn cults? It's a question worth asking...

Thea Halvorson is a kindergarten teacher at Evanston's Kingsley Elementary School who pulls down almost $100k a year. She has been appea...

As she did last Spring, our svelte first lady, Michelle Obama will soon once again be pushing her national dance day, to encourage us all to...

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When I was in college, I smoked Camel straights. Some ill-informed, nervous- Nelly members of my college newspaper staff predicted that if I...

Diversity Fan Tisdahl Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl, Monday, put the kibosh on restaurateur, Ted Mavrakis' bid to open a "Tilted Kilt...

Gov. Mitch Daniels The most truly ridiculous attempt at political spin that I have lately heard was uttered by political consultant, Dan ...

CEDA is a major advertiser on Chicago's Lefty Talk WCPT Yesterday the Chicago Tribune published a scathing investigative report on t...

The AOL-owned Patch hyperlocal suburban newspaper chain announced last week that it is looking to enlist local bloggers to supply content ...

Semino Rossi In our recent forays into the wonderful, sometimes weird, world of Euro Schlager music, we have seldom found anything as --...

Pfleger with Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan News today that Chicago's Catholic Cardinal Francis George finally decided to g...

(Editor's Note: The salary list was updated on 9/8/12 to reflect the personnel and salaries for the 2011 reporting period, the latest...

The Irish Easter Uprising was 95 years ago today.

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Jethro Bodine Austria, once home of the mighty Habsburg Empire and birthplace of Mozart has now produced a socio-cultural phenomenon o...

Ira Einhorn mug shots Today is Earth Day. It is also Good Friday and while the kids at the Catholic schools are reflecting on the passio...

Field Middle School Printed below is the complete list of 2010 salaries for teachers and administrators in West Northfield School Distri...

Lake Bluff's Village Green Gazebo If what makes the news is any measure of the civility of a given town, then no one can dispute tha...

Heino, born Heinz-Georg Kramm in Dusseldorf is one of the last schlager stars to have the seal of the 3rd Reich on his birth certificate. B...

News today that a Russian Canadian, Dimitry Smirnov, drove to suburban Chicago where he murdered his ex-girlfriend , a Westmont resident, a...

On this tax day, with talk of terrorists plotting to plant suitcase-contained, "dirty" nuclear bombs in our cities, it is reassuri...

St. Rep. Karen Yarbrough Illinois State Representative Karen Yarbrough (D-Maywood) and Adolf Hitler are two kindred spirits --- anti-smo...