Happy Columbus Day, Opa!
The shocking news that Christopher Columbus was Greek—in this excellent essay by Chicago writer James Banakis–may have come as a…
Bridgeport’s Favorite Year
By Mike Houlihan October 10th, 2026 Don’t know about youse, but I am loving this post-season Chicago White Sox team…
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JB PRITZKER’S GREAT DISPLACEMENT
By Paul Vallas October 11th, 2026 Illinois leadership is sustaining policies that have done nothing to improve equity or affordability…
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If the DSA Gets Its Way, American Policing Ends – By Chief Tom Weitzel (Ret.)
by Chief Tom Weitzel. Retired This column is posted with the express permission from AwakeIL.com I usually stay out of…
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The “Christian” West and War in the Middle East
By Nicholas S. Kass Sunday October 4th, 2026 Since the beginning of the 21st century, the entire world has watched…
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The Road to Hell Isn’t Paved with Good Intentions. It’s Paved with Deep Feelings.
By David Bittinger October 2nd, 2026 Feelings are valued, they’re celebrated, more than rational thought is. People with deeply emotional…
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You’ve Got to Be a Football Player
By Cory Franklin Wednesday September 30th, 2026 Scene: The magnificent top-floor office of world-class sports agent, Sheldrake. Sitting in a…
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Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Learned Nothing From Risking Her Daughters Future
By Paul Vallas September 27th, 2026 “Her obsession with the Black-White oppressed-oppressor narrative is so total she never looks outside…
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COYOTE VS. ACME
By Michael Ledwith September 25th, 2026 Now, let me get it out of the way… Coyote vs. ACME is the best…
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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…
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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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