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 ...

When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was fourteen years old, his father took him to Rome. They went to the Sistine Chapel and heard something astonishing. The choir sang the Miserere Mei, Deus of Gregorio ...

“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 ...

On the Friday afternoon before Christmas–as families prepared for the holiday–Gov. J.B. Pritzker gave Illinois parents a terrible present. It was not wrapped, but he put his name on it:. Pritzker ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson is trying to rehabilitate his image with Chicago’s Black community through divisive rhetoric and actions that demonize the White community. While Whites have a right to be ...