A judge dealt a blow this week to a Chicago area road construction company run by members of the Palumbo family, siding with the Illinois Department of Transportation in a lawsuit filed by the business after millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded contract... See more
Disgraced ex-Ald. Edward M. Burke has been out of elected office since May 2023 and out of prison since summer after a conviction on corruption charges and hasn’t been actively raising campaign money. But his campaign coffers stand to grow nonetheless, an... See more
Cardinal Blase Cupich was one of Pope Francis’ first major ecclesiastical appointments in 2014, picked to lead the Archdiocese of Chicago that he still helms. Francis’ successor, Pope Leo XIV, reached into the Chicago region for one of his first major app... See more
Is a Chicago-area bishop going to be the next Catholic archbishop of New York? That’s what’s being reported by a number of religious-oriented news sources, including the Catholic News Agency, that Ronald Hicks, the current bishop of the Diocese of Joliet,... See more
As the CTA’s holiday train was making the rounds through the Loop recently, Santa Claus was the one being naughty. Well, at least someone dressed up like him was. In videos circulating on social media, someone in a Santa outfit is shown “subway surfing” a... See more
