The First Ward

Since it’s difficult to get anything done with everyone home, I’ve spent the weekend compiling some semi-random thoughts en route to taking Monday off. Enjoy!

Before we hit the ground running, please allow me to issue this stipulation. Though most Elginians disagree with my assessments, their responses to my series

You just can’t please some people! By the response from papers, pundits, and politicians, you’d think new Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker’s decision to personally

Make no mistake, Dixon was pandering! One of the best things about this journalistic endeavor is, whenever you put a story out there, it tends

Upon hearing a Kane County Zoning Board of Appeals member refer to drug addicts as “animals who should be locked up,” the great Larry Jones

To co-opt and abridge a Warren Zevon song title. It happened all the time on the radio show. An erstwhile Republican guest would come on

I know this isn’t going to be the most scintillating column, but with President Trump unwittingly inspiring all sorts of new entries in the local

Simple extortion? Carried out on a cellphone? And it was Burger King? It would seem like it’s my Cook County political brethren’s turn to hang