Reeder: “Can an innocent person really end up in prison?”

A movement is afoot to get President Donald Trump to pardon former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

My best editor was my mother.

When I heard last week that Barbara Bush had died, I couldn’t help but think of the Bush family and how my first year as a journalist was intertwined with their political endeavors.

Ever found yourself hoping someone will die so someone you love can live?

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A few years ago, I was sitting at grandmother’s bedside and she made a political admission that stunned me.

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Please don’t read this as a candidate endorsement, I don’t do those. This is an endorsement of the truth, which all good journalists should do.

What will Neil Gorsuch do? The Supreme Court Justice was mum Monday as the U.S. Supreme Court debated an Illinois case that will likely affect organized labor for decades to come.

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Could it be that billionaire J.B. Pritzker, scion of the Hyatt hotel fortune, looks down his nose at Emil Jones, a man who rose from being a Chicago sewer inspector to president of the Illinois Senate?

Imagine interviewing for a job and getting offered a starting salary of $340,000 and then demanding that your new employer create positions for your adult daughter and her husband.

If statistics are any prediction, I ought to be an enthusiastic supporter of Donald Trump.

Our governor, Bruce Rauner, is a coward.

Illinois dropped from the fifth-largest state to the sixth according to recently released Internal Revenue Service data. We’ve been edged out by Pennsylvania.


My kids used to sing this nursery rhyme when they were younger.