By Steve Rhodes

The 115-story curling spire proposed for the Chicago lakefront could hardly be more befitting of the city. After all, what could be a better symbol of the Daley Administration than a giant screw?
The only element missing from the sublime design is an impaled taxpayer on top.

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Posted on February 26, 2006

By Steve Rhodes

You wouldn’t know it by reading the papers, but the Speaker of the House is from Illinois!
We’ll chart our ascendant congressional delegation’s influence on national politics – and their performance back home.
Coming as soon as our D.C. bureau gets out of detox.

Posted on February 25, 2006