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Columns & Opinion, On Politics Sep 1, 2020
Move over, Iron Mike

Urlacher leads the charge for Trump’s white backlash campaign.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Brian Urlacher, Donald Trump, Matt Forte, Mike Ditka, Harold Washington, Bernie Epton, Eddie Vrdolyak, Black Lives Matter, Jacob Blake, Kenosha, Chicago Bears, Kyle Rittenhouse, Vincent E. Norment, LeBron James

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jun 9, 2020
Telling it like it is

Are you listening, NFL, ESPN, and the Bears?
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Barack Obama, Mike Ditka, ESPN, Monday Night Football, Hank Williams Jr., Gretchen Carlson, Donald Trump, George Floyd, MAGA, Colin Kaepernick, Mike Glennon, Chicago Bears, Mitch Trubisky, Patrick Mahomes, Deshaun Watson, Drew Brees, Levitra, Campbell’s Chunky Soup, Vic Fangio

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jun 2, 2020
Thank you, Sarah Cooper

At times like this, it sort of helps to bash Donald Trump.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Sarah Cooper, Donald Trump, George Floyd, Derek Chauvin, Colin Kaepernick, Jerry Jones, Dallas Cowboys, Mike Glennon, Chicago Bears, Laquan McDonald, Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar

News & Politics, Fall Preview Sep 19, 2018
The perfect storm, or the two weeks in October when sports are king

Chicago's fall frenzy makes fairweather fandom fun.
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Fall Preview, Chicago sports, October, Chicago Cubs, Chicago Bears, Chicago Bulls, Chicago Fire, Northwetsern, Big Ten football, sports, fall preview, fall preview 2018

Music, Concert Preview Sep 7, 2018
Food, football, fund-raising, and Freddie Gibbs at this weekend’s music fests
- Tags: Concert Preview, Beer & Bands for Comfort Station, Comfort Station, Logan Square, Dos Santos, Phoelix, Dim, Campdogzz, Goose Island Beer Company, Virtue Cider, White Claw, The Breaks, Wu-Tang Clan, Freddie Gibbs, Vic Mensa, Yasiin Bey, Talib Kweli, Hurt Everybody, Toyota Park, football, NFL, Chicago Bears, Atlas Genius, beer, Ember Oceans, Bifunkal, Esso, AMFM, food, art, music, Matt Muse, Solo Sam, Avantist, Tamarie T. & the Elektra Company

Blogs, Bleader Feb 12, 2018
Shootings and homicides decrease as carjackings surge, and other Chicago news

Also, Chicago matches snowfall record with nine straight days of measurable snow.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, gun violence, gang violence, carjackings, winter weather, National Weather Service, Garry McCarthy, Chicago Bears, Irish American Heritage Center, SEIU, Steve McMichael, Dan Hampton, Otis Wilson, Mike Adamle, Ed O'Bradovich, Election 2019, Chicago Police Department, Xerox, Cook County, Joe Berrios, Fritz Kaegi, Joseph Berrios, Election 2018, Chicago Cubs, Yu Darvish, Los Angeles Dodgers, World Series, Jake Arrieta

Blogs, Bleader Feb 5, 2018
Gubernatorial candidate Jeanne Ives’s ad offends both sides of the aisle, and other Chicago news

Also, attorney general candidate Scott Drury believes Madigan thought he was wearing a wire during a meeting.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Jeanne Ives, Bruce Rauner, Chicago Teachers Union, LGBT issues, immigration issues, abortion, Erika Harold, Arthur Jones, Holocaust, Nazis, Neo Nazis, Dan Lipinski, Scott Drury, Mike Madigan, Election 2018, Union League Club, Super Bowl, Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles, Alshon Jeffery, Avec, Blackbird

Blogs, Bleader Feb 1, 2018
Potential mayoral candidate Paul Vallas strikes out at Emanuel after Chicago State drama, and other news

Also, Tinley Park police release a new image of the Lane Bryant shooting suspect ten years after the tragedy.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Paul Vallas, Chicago State University, Rahm Emanuel, Pat Quinn, Illinois General Assembly, Election 2019, unsolved murders, gun violence, mass shootings, Tinley Park, Lane Bryant, DACA, Dreamers, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Cook County, sanctuary cities, ICE, immigration issues, Amandla Charter School, Chicago Public Schools, school closings, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, football, Chicago Bears, Mike Adamle, Au Cheval, Katz's Deli, pastrami

Blogs, Bleader Jan 26, 2018
University of Chicago defends Steve Bannon debate invite citing freedom of speech, and other news

Also, Chicago will comply with a Department of Justice request for immigration documents.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago, Steve Bannon, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, immigration issues, globalization, freedom of speech, Jeff Sessions, sanctuary cities, Rahm Emanuel, Department of Justice, Kabul, Afghanistan, Glenn Selig, Drew Peterson, Rod Blagojevich, Patti Blagojevich, Taliban, Chicago Bears, football, Dave Duerson, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, Donald Trump, White House, Chicago Restaurant Week

Blogs, Bleader Jan 8, 2018
Proposed Chicago Public Schools closings allegedly in violation of teachers’ union contract, and other news

Also, alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa is reportedly planning to drop out of race to replace Congressman Luis Gutierrez.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Teachers Union, Jesse Sharkey, school closings, Ira Silverstein, sexual harassment, Election 2018, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, Luis Gutierrez, Chicago Bears, John Fox, Matt Nagy, Richard Boykin, police issues, Cook County, Au Cheval, Small Cheval, restaurant openings

Blogs, Bleader Jan 2, 2018
Report: George Papadopoulos told Australian diplomat that Russia had dirt on Hillary Clinton, and other Chicago news

Also, the cold caused a glass panel to crack in the new Apple flagship store.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, George Papadopoulos, Robert Mueller, Donald Trump, Russia, Hillary Clinton, Election 2016, DNC, Rahm Emanuel, Apple, Apple Store, Chicago Bears, John Fox, winter weather, Man's Country

Blogs, Bleader Dec 20, 2017
Cubs, Blackhawks, Bulls, Bears, and White Sox donate $1 million to combat gun violence, and other Chicago news

Also, Rauner won't say whether he holds moral responsibility for veterans' home deaths.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago Cubs, Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago Bulls, Chicago Bears, Chicago White Sox, Jerry Reinsdorf, George McCaskey, gun violence, University of Chicago Crime Lab, Legionnaires' disease, Illinois Veterans' Home, Bruce Rauner, Quincy, Chicago Police Department, Eddie Johnson, Donald Trump, Ford Motor Company, sexual harassment, Chicago Chop House

Blogs, Bleader Dec 7, 2017
Have sportswriters changed their minds about football teams that let the opponents score?

The matador defense comes to the NFL.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, Sports, 1998 Super Bowl, Mike Holmgren, Green Bay Packers, Denver Broncos, David Haugh, Steve Rosenbloom, Chicago Bears, John Fox, Robbie Gould, Mitch Trubisky, Rick Telander, Bernie Lincicome

Blogs, Bleader Dec 4, 2017
Conductor James Levine accused of sexual misconduct during his time as Ravinia's music director, and other Chicago news

Also, Jim DeRogatis asks why the music industry has given R. Kelly a free pass despite numerous sexual misconduct allegations.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, James Levine, New York City, The Metropolitan Opera, Ravinia Festival, classical music, sexual misconduct, Luis Gutierrez, Proco "Joe" Moreno, R. Kelly, Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer, Kevin Spacey, Louis C.K., Harvey Weinstein, music industry, Sony Music, Chicago Bears, John Fox, Greektown, Pegasus, restaurant closings, curling, Winter Olympics, winter sports

Blogs, Bleader Dec 1, 2017
Tailgating with the Grabowskis (and some cheeseheads too)

In McCormick Place Lot B, the only thing richer than the grilled beef tenderloin is the daydream of a Bears championship.
- By Jack M. Silverstein
- Tags: Sports, Food & Drink, News, Chicago Bears, tailgating, Soldier Field, NFL, Monsters of the Midway, Mitchell Trubisky

News & Politics, Sports Nov 30, 2017
Who loves Chicago’s most unlovable losers, the Bears?

Perhaps no local fan base is more loyal than that of the Bears. But what has the so-called pride and joy of Illinois done in three decades to deserve such devotion?
- By Ted Cox
- Tags: Sports, Chicago Bears, sports, tailgating, fans, Mike Ditka, unlovable losers, lovable losers, NFL, National Football League, Styx, Grand Illusion, Rahm Emanuel, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Ron Owens, South Lot, Theresa Price, Andrea Darnhart, Robert Stone, Bozo Show, WGN TV, Mitch Trubisky, Jordan Howard, Wrigley Field, Danny Trevathan, Jerrell Freeman, Kyle Long, West Virginia, Randi Kass, Arizona, Green Bay Packers, Aaron Rodgers, Brad Quellhorst, Detroit Lions, Walter Payton, Charles Barkley, Soldier Field

News & Politics, Feature Nov 15, 2017
Downstate hate: A history of the bitter, nearly 200-year rivalry between Chicago and the rest of Illinois

The animosity between Illinois's largest city and its smaller towns is almost as old as the state itself.
- By Edward McClelland
- Tags: Feature, Illinois, Downstate, bicentennial, Pat Staab, Adlai Stevenson, Abraham Lincoln, Decatur, Bill Mitchell, Moline, John Deere, Peoria, Caterpillar, George Halas, Chicago Bears, Staley, City Council, Forgottonia, George Ryan, Nathaniel Pope, Springfield, Barack Obama, Ameya Pawar, Lake Michigan, Illinois history, Chicago history, Great Lakes, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Hillary Clinton, Bruce Rauner, Pat Quinn, Rod Blagojevich, Little Egypt, Cairo, eclipse, Metropolis, New Columbia Bluffs, Massac County, J.B. Pritzker, Jim Edgar, Edgar Fellows Program, East Saint Louis, Freeport, Galesburg, Maytag, Tate & Lyle, Vienna, James Krohe Jr., Corn Kings and One-Horse Thieves: A Plain-Spoken History of Mid-Illinois, Richard C. Longworth, Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism, REO Speedwagon, Michael Madigan, Bill Clinton, Nile Delta, Herald & Review, Firestone, Donald Trump, NAFTA, Bernie Sanders, Macon County, Archer Daniels Midland, Alan Dixon, Paul Simon, secession

Blogs, Bleader Oct 31, 2017
Video
Chicagoan, former Trump aide pleads guilty to making false statements to the FBI, and other news

Also, a Lakeview poke shop closes just five days after its grand opening.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Robert Mueller, Donald Trump, Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos, Rick Gates, Russia, DePaul University, gun violence, Chicago Police Department, Jeffrey Sallet, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Pat Dowell, the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, filming, TV shows, Empire, Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, Gail Peck, missing people, Chicago Bears, Zach Miller, NFL, New Orleans Saints, restaurant closings, poke, FireFin Poke Shop, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 17, 2017
Video
Chicago named the rat capital of the country for the third consecutive year, and other news

Also, Harvey Weinstein's unlikely 1985 Bears connection.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, rats, Orkin, New York City, Los Angeles, gun violence, Cynthia Trevillion, Christian Community Church, Morse Avenue, Gary Comer Youth Center, Barack Obama, Obama Foundation, White House, Lurie Children's Hospital, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Harvey Weinstein, Linda Matlow, Chicago Bears, Super Bowl, Jim McMahon, William "the Refrigerator" Perry, Soldier Field, Sister Sledge, Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow, sexual harassment, sexual assault, University of Chicago Divinity School, University of Chicago, Laurie Zoloth, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 25, 2017
Bears on Trump NFL comments: ‘This divisive political situation has unified our franchise’

Also, Alderman Ray Lopez wants to overhaul the "deeply flawed" CPD gang database.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago Bears, NFL, Pittsburgh Steelers, Donald Trump, Soldier Field, Ray Lopez, Chicago Police Department, gangs, gang database, Dennis Hastert, Tom Cross, Scott Cross, Gianni Versace, Lee Miglin, Andrew Cunanan, serial killers, American Crime Story, FX, Family Matters

Blogs, Bleader Sep 20, 2017
Video
Rahm: Chicago's overwhelming disdain for Trump has made his mayoral job easier, and other Chicago news

Also, former Bear Charles "Peanut" Tillman is training to join the FBI.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Rahm Emanuel, Donald Trump, Wheaton College, college football, hazing, Garry McCarthy, Election 2019, Brian McCormack, Chicago Police Department, Charles Tillman, Peanut Tillman, Chicago Bears, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Dave Wannstedt, Kenneka Jenkins, Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel & Conference Center, Bottled Blonde, Timothy Fitzgerald, drug house, Berrien County, Michigan, Video

News & Politics, Sports Aug 15, 2017
Hard hat, lunch pail: The myth of toughness in Chicago sports

How the fabled athletic monsters of Chicago’s Midway were created
- By David Isaacson
- Tags: Sports, Rust Best Chicago: An Anthology, David Isaacson, Carl Sandburg, Bronko Nagurski, Monsters of the Midway, Chicago Bulls, Chicago Bears, The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan, Mike Ditka, Keith Magnuson, West Coast Offense, Walter Payton, Michael Jordan, Donald Trump, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Cubs, Grabowski, Paul Galloway, Steve McMichael, Mongo, Blazing Saddles, The City of the Big Shoulders, Monday Night Football, Letterman, The Super Bowl Shuffle, Stacey King, Joakim Noah, Taj Gibson, Elena Della Donne, WNBA, Chicago Sky, Theo Epstein, Moneyball, Joe Maddon, Kris Bryant, Marc Trestman, Golden State Warriors, Doberman Defense, Steph Curry, Make America great again, Bruce Rauner

Blogs, Bleader Jun 20, 2017
Video
Chicago hit 300 homicides over Father's Day weekend, and other news

Also, less than a quarter of Chicago teens reportedly attend their neighborhood public high schools.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, gun violence, gang violence, Chicago Public Schools, Janice Jackson, selective enrollment schools, public schools, Byline Bank, IPO, banks, finance, Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears, Soldier Field, Chicago Lighthouse, clocks, manufacturing, factories, Target, Amazon, O'Hare International Airport, American Airlines, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 2, 2017
May Day protests draw activists, workers, and students, and other Chicago news

Also, Obama is reportedly returning to Chicago for two events Wednesday.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, May Day, activism, Social Justice High School, Barack Obama, South Shore Cultural Center, Chicago Club, University of Chicago, J.B. Pritzker, Election 2018, Daniel Biss, Ameya Pawar, Chris Kennedy, gang violence, Walter Burnett, Leslie Hairston, Touhy-Herbert Park, gentrification, Chicago Bears, workers' compensation, Brian Urlacher, NFL, Matt Forte, Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Bulls

Blogs, Bleader Mar 21, 2017
Video
Comptroller Susana Mendoza and Governor Bruce Rauner continue battle over finances, and other Chicago news

Also, federal authorities aren't prosecuting as many gun cases in Chicago as they are in other cities.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Susana Mendoza, Chicago, Illinois, Bruce Rauner, state budget impasse, Cook County Criminal Courthouse, gun violence, criminal justice, Ken Griffin, Citadel, Sam Zell, Chicago Bears, Gale Sayers, football, restaurant openings, River East Arts Center, Video

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