By John Kass October 25th, 2025 It’s time for me to wind down the website. Past time. I held on too long because it had cost ...

“Nothing is more important than retiring Brandon Johnson and thwarting Hilario Dominguez from becoming school board president. However, Michael Sacks’s handpicking their replacements is not the answer ...

By Greg Ganske October 18th, 2026 The phrase “three little words” has deep significance across relationships stretching ...

Chicago Way w/John Kass (10/19/26): Dr. Carrie Mendoza joins John Kass & Jeff Carlin this week to talk about New Trier Neighbors (NTN) screening of ‘White Guilt: A Documentary Essay’ on Nov. 5th with ...

On November 5th, I will load up a bus with neighbors from my Woodlawn community on Chicago’s South Side and drive north to New Trier High School to see a documentary called “White Guilt,” being hosted ...

By David Bittinger October 16th, 2026 Six months after Frank Sinatra’s death, a little book on his career was published. Why ...

Chicago Way w/John Kass (07/27/26): Old friend & former boss at WLS-AM, Dew Hayes, joins John Kass & Jeff Carlin to talk about what the differences are between California & Illinois, how media has ...

Here in the US, we weren’t as creative in how we handled them. The best we could do was establish quotas in our medical schools and keep them from working in some of our hospitals. A poor alternative.

The worst sound in the world comes from the throat of a father or mother of a child killed by an illegal protected by powerful politicians as the news media begins to edge away from them, ignoring ...

When I was starting out as a Chicago City Hall reporter for that big metropolitan paper—when we could smoke in newsrooms on deadline, curse, tell jokes, laugh and wore jackets and ties to work—I had ...

To all subscribers: Today we officially return to our past practice of allowing dialogue and comment under the column just as long as they are brief (200 words or less) and they are not offensive ...