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 ...

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

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I usually stay out of party politics. Thirty-seven years in this profession, thirteen of them as chief of police in Riverside, Illinois, taught me that a chief who picks partisan sides loses half the ...

Illinois leadership is sustaining policies that have done nothing to improve equity or affordability while swapping out middle- and upper-income families for the poor and illegal migrants. JB Pritzker ...

Chicago Way w/John Kass (10/05/26): On this episode, author and retired director of medical intensive care at Cook County Hospital in Chicago for over 20 years Dr. Cory Franklin joins John Kass & Jeff ...

I love Italian cinema. It has none of the gratuitous glitter of Hollywood films. Italian movies usually take place with surprising photographic style and a deep connection to everyday life. Like the ...

Feelings are valued, they’re celebrated, more than rational thought is. People with deeply emotional political feelings are certain they have winning arguments. Let’s engage them. You hate Trump so, ...