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March 25, 2023

Freedom or Death: March 25th, 1821

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May 12, 2022

Megyn Kelly Can See It: Chicago Violent Crime Out of Control, with Lightfoot in Full Panic

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May 10, 2022

The Chicago Way: City Primeval and Lightfoot’s “Summer of Joy”

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February 1, 2022

The Chicago Way, Biden, SCOTUS and race; Truman the Mule and a Story of True Friendship in the Mountains of Greece

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January 22, 2022

Mollie Hemingway: on her book: “Rigged” and Joe Biden The Chicago Way

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March 25, 2023

Freedom or Death: March 25th, 1821

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March 24, 2023

Bill Marovitz on Chicago’s Election

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March 22, 2023

What to Watch For in the Coming COVID Critique

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March 20, 2023

The Photograph

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March 19, 2023

Two weeks will decide Chicago’s future

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March 17, 2023

Playing Baseball in Japan

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March 15, 2023

One Day in East Berlin, 1984

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March 12, 2023

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

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March 10, 2023

What Will it Take to Lose the Blues in Chicago

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March 8, 2023

Foxx policies punish police rather than the criminals

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March 5, 2023

My Choice of the Ten Best Burt Bacharach Songs

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March 3, 2023

The Holy Season of Lent: Shedding the Callousness of the Heart

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February 28, 2023

Today is the day Chicago asks itself: “Who Should be mayor?”

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February 26, 2023

Crime poses an existential threat to the city of Chicago.

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February 24, 2023

Will Artificial Intelligence Benefit or Destroy Us

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March 28, 2023

Chicago Way w/John Kass: Do national nods mean anything in the race for mayor?

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March 21, 2023

Chicago Way w/John Kass: Hold elected officials accountable for crime, not platitudes

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March 21, 2023

Chicago Way w/John Kass: Hold elected officials accountable for crime, not platitudes

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March 9, 2023

Chicago Way w/John Kass: A dose of Southwest Side common sense

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March 2, 2023

Chicago Way w/John Kass: Strap in, Johnson v. Vallas is going to be a doozy

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February 21, 2023

Chicago Way w/John Kass: Ald. Reilly on the ‘failed experiment’ of Lightfoot, Evans, and Foxx

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February 18, 2023

Chicago Way w/John Kass: Pulling back the curtain on Brandon Johnson and the CTU

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February 14, 2023

Chicago Way w/John Kass: Culture devouring policy is no way to run a city

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February 10, 2023

Chicago Way w/John Kass: Mike Singletary wants to save your life

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February 7, 2023

The Chicago Way: Can a city survive with first responders under constant political attack by the powers that be?

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January 31, 2023

Chicago Way w/John Kass: How faith, family, & friendship help heal the heart

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January 21, 2023

What Happened to John Kass?

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January 9, 2023

Paul Vallas is Becoming the Inevitable Candidate for Mayor

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December 22, 2022

Have a Very Merry Chicago Way Christmas

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December 17, 2022

Miranda Devine and her Book “Laptop From Hell,” on the Chicago Way podcast

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December 10, 2022

Tom Bevan the Chicago Way. And what the #$%^!! is going on at Francis Parker School?

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December 8, 2022

The Cocaine Bear Will Kill Us All, Hunter Biden, and Tiny Lori in the Tiny House, in the Race for Mayor, The Chicago Way.

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Freedom or Death: March 25th, 1821

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March 24, 2023

Bill Marovitz on Chicago’s Election

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March 22, 2023

What to Watch For in the Coming COVID Critique

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March 20, 2023

The Photograph

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March 19, 2023

Two weeks will decide Chicago’s future

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Welcome to my excellent adventure:
JohnKassNews.com

My farewell column to the readers of the Chicago Tribune is out. It ends with -30-. It’s an old school newspaper code. It means, the end.

But I’m not ending. People are calling, asking what I’m going to do now. This is what I’m going to do:

JohnKassNews.com

Why? I’m a writer. I write. Writing is my oxygen. And there is plenty to write about. As I told you in the last column, I’m no Laertes to putter around the garden talking to plants. I love my garden, but plants are just plants.

I don’t talk to plants. And I still have a few spears left to throw.

Instead of reading me in the newspaper, you can read me here. Until I figure out the next move. You’ll be able to read my content. There will be links to the best podcast in the universe, the Chicago Way podcast where my buddy Jeff Carlin turns the tables and interviews me for a change. We can have sponsors now. And there will be links to other podcasts too, like my good friend Thom Serafin’s “Crisis Cast.”

I am by no means in crisis. And every day or so, I’ll write something. Sometimes a full column. Sometimes a few paragraphs. The Bears, Mayor Lightfoot’s meltdown, catch-and-release Kim Foxx, real school choice and how legacy journalism devours itself and becomes little more than propaganda mills for the woke.

You can communicate with me via email on the page, and I’ll read what you send me and write you back, just as I’ve done for the past 30 years.

What’s on the menu? Links to old columns. Links to stories I think are important now that you might want to read. There’s so much crap out there, and too many barking dogs telling you this and that. I’ve never talked down to you and I never will.

You’re the ones who’ve had my back. I owe you.

The adventure begins. Let’s see what happens.

-John Kass