When Will They Learn? 27 Aug 2013 | 08:15 am

Chicago Tribune: Lombard businessman Daniel Dvorkin had just been ordered to pay more than $8 million to a creditor last year when prosecutors say he took a lucrative but deadly proposition to a gun s...

Allowance 26 Aug 2013 | 11:02 pm

I'm working up north today, so I'm on break and writing from a Starbucks located in one of the posh burbs. The place is packed with preadolescent and early adolescent children here on their own, buyin...

A Bed Shot 26 Aug 2013 | 12:23 am

$100k Chicago Parking Ticket Case Settled 23 Aug 2013 | 03:04 am

Chicago Tribune: After racking up the city’s highest-ever parking ticket tab, Jennifer Fitzgerald will only have to pay a small fraction of what she owed the city of Chicago. In her lawsuit that was d...

Last of the Nixon Tapes 22 Aug 2013 | 11:45 am

George Bush (41) spoke briefly with Richard Nixon late in the night on April 30, 1973, the day H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst resigned. Nixon made a televised ...

Local News 22 Aug 2013 | 09:02 am

Business Insider: A recent Northwestern graduate is suing an Illinois hospital after a doctor allegedly posted drunken photos of her in the emergency room on Instagram and Facebook, ABC News reports. ...

Three Years 21 Aug 2013 | 03:05 am

This is someone I knew as a child. Not a friend, but friendly. He didn't survive. Addiction was the family problem. Father had a big corporate career that collapsed. Two of the kids were lost to it.

Tuesday Various 20 Aug 2013 | 09:53 pm

Yesterday, I went to Office Depot to purchase ink. The store was packed and the checkout line was long. After waiting in line for a few minutes, a manager came out from behind the counter and asked wh...

Saudi Witch-hunts 20 Aug 2013 | 02:09 am

Ryan Jacobs, Atlantic: In a country where public observance of any religion besides Islam is strictly forbidden, foreign domestic workers who bring unfamiliar traditional religious or folk customs fro...

About that coffee and earlier death study 19 Aug 2013 | 11:05 pm

FOUR CUPS OF COFFEE A DAY WILL KILL YOU!! Or maybe not. Here are the details of the study, and here are the difficulties with interpreting the findings: However, despite the scary headlines — to some ...