E Thalassa, From Whence We Came
By James Banakis | September 23rd, 2026 “Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer…
Brandon Johnson’s So-Called Progressive Equity Agenda Is a Potemkin Village That’s Hurting the Black Community
By Paul Vallas September 20th, 2026 Mayor Brandon Johnson is trying to rehabilitate his image with Chicago’s Black community through…
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Anthony Fauci Finally Speaks
By Cory Franklin September 18th, 2026 A rough estimate of the devastation caused by the COVID pandemic from 2020-2024 in…
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Saints Preserve Us
By Mike Houlihan September 16th, 2026 There’s an old Chicago joke that goes something like this….what three streets in Chicago…
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The Scourge of Bad Church Music
By Marie T. Sullivan Sunday September 13th, 2026 In my youth, after years of post-college wandering, I resumed going to…
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Lest We Forget September 11th, 2001
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Newspapers and Writers
By David Bittinger September 10th, 2026 You’ll probably recognize much of the Chicago newspaper history recounted here. Some of you…
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The Builder in Chief, Making the White House Beautiful Again
By James Banakis September 6th, 2026 I recently saw a documentary on the History Channel about the Emperor Hadrian who…
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SANCTUARY BOONDOGGLE
By Paul Vallas September 2nd, 2026 A report issued by Chicago’s Inspector General confirmed that $639.7 million was spent on…
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Chicago’s Political Dogs Walking Stiff-Legged Into Mayoral Race
By John Kass August 30th, 2026 Years ago when I first began covering Chicago politics–first for The Daily Calumet (America’s…
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Et tu, David Axelrod?
By Cory Franklin August 28th, 2026 At the legendary South Loop delicatessen, Manny’s, every stratum of Chicagoan comes to enjoy…
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Francesca Hong, We Hardly Knew Ye
By James Banakis August 26th, 2026 As a lifelong Chicagoland resident, I have a challenging, love/hate relationship with our neighboring…
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Daddy, Where Do Communists Come From?
By David Bittinger August 23rd,2026 Children are curious and easily frightened. They want explanations for everything scary. For instance —…
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Anti-Semitism and the Unholy Alliance Between the Far Left and Radical Islam
By Paul Vallas August 21st, 2026 There is an alliance between the far left and Islamist fundamentalists that is based…
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Only Fauci Knows – And He’s Not Telling
By Cory Franklin August 19,2026 On January 26, 2020, one week after the first COVID patient was hospitalized in the…