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The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesToo journalism for journalism like alt-country is too country for country.Posted on January 25, 2021 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesStraight to hell, boys.Posted on January 15, 2021 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBreak it down for me, fellas.Posted on January 14, 2021 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDonald Trump's supporters are exactly who we thought they were.Posted on January 11, 2021 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGet down on it.Posted on January 8, 2021 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFrom the Carpet Capitol of the World to my local Walgreens.Posted on January 6, 2021 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBroken lives, broken dreams, broken record.Posted on January 5, 2021 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesHola amigos redux.Posted on December 19, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHola, amigos! Been a long time since I rapped at ya.Posted on December 10, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSporadic.Posted on December 2, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhat we got wrong about rich people in 2020.Posted on December 1, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThere's a war on for your mind!Posted on November 30, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLike Dalton says, it's gonna get worse before it gets better.Posted on November 23, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBillionaire governor against a selfish public.Posted on November 17, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWe're very much in deep trouble.Posted on November 16, 2020 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMore than 10,000 Illinoisans have died from COVID-19. 10,000.Posted on November 13, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSeason in hell.Posted on November 12, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe feckless mayor's maskless police department.Posted on November 11, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesUnfathomable.Posted on November 10, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAOC vs.Rahm.Posted on November 9, 2020 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPornhubbub.Posted on November 6, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBelieve the punters.Posted on November 4, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAll the action's on Twitter today, folks.Posted on November 3, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesParty like it's 1899.Posted on November 2, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDozens of deaths daily. Plus: Pricey Pot & Bob's Baseball Birdies.Posted on October 29, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAld. Jim Beam and the revolving door. Plus: Today's Worst Person In Chicago and the Headline Of The Day.Posted on October 28, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSouthwest Side's second surge.Posted on October 27, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRepublicans wear the jacket - the jacket of death.Posted on October 26, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWe will now resume regular programming.Posted on October 21, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWinding down - so to speak.Posted on October 13, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesI'm a good boss.Posted on October 8, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMuster.Posted on October 5, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHow the media is blowing the Trump tax story.Posted on September 28, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAccepting the premise is not in the job description.Posted on September 24, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe respondent sicced a dog on me.Posted on September 23, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDo. Your. Job.Posted on September 22, 2020 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesWhat the FOP tells us about the CPD.Posted on September 19, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahmnesia.Posted on September 15, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Bears, the census, the virus, the coup.Posted on September 14, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMakes no census.Posted on September 8, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHappy Deja Labor Day.Posted on September 7, 2020 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNever give up . . .Posted on September 4, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago Code and COVID Chodes, featuring both Today's Best and Worst Persons In Chicago. Plus: Why you should wear a mask outdoors.Posted on September 3, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesI was off from the census today and it still kicked my butt. #Phase2Posted on September 1, 2020 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFor whom the real death toll tolls. Plus: The Status Quo Was Uncivil and Chicago Weather Forecast Is WAP.Posted on August 28, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe virus is in the air, people. Plus: My quarantine brackets are all screwed up. And more.Posted on August 25, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOut here in the fields.Posted on August 20, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe census kicked my ass again today.Posted on August 19, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLittle ol' me on Big Jim. Plus: America finally getting real history lessons. And: Senate Republicans admit Trump colluded with Putin. Will still vote for him.Posted on August 18, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTrump's tip of iceberg, Chicago's Benghazi and census conference calls.Posted on August 17, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRight before our eyes.Posted on August 13, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCounting heads.Posted on August 11, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHelluva job, Brownie.Posted on August 10, 2020 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesUntil everybody pays a fair tax, nobody is paying a fair tax.Posted on August 7, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRight in front of our faces.Posted on August 6, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhat a freakin' day counting America. What a freakin' day trying not to die in America.Posted on August 5, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesYou know this already but the mentally ill, racist, pathological liar who is president is killing a thousand Americans a day. Plus: Union Sundown; More Sticks Please, and more!Posted on August 4, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTurn the car around, governor. Plus: Oh Fish!; True-Up Blew Up; No Mercy and more!Posted on August 3, 2020 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCensus 2020 and COVID-19.Posted on July 31, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIt's not about where in the print version of the Tribune that John Kass's column runs, it's about the bigotry (and Breitbartesque falsehoods) inside the column that Tribune management tolerates.Posted on July 28, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve Rhodesi'm back! I'm not.Posted on July 27, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCounting people is harder than you think.Posted on July 22, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOff on census duty.Posted on July 21, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTime for Chicago Moms to activate. Plus: The truth about Hamilton and Harrison; the return of baseball . . . media; twentysomethings ruin bars for the rest of us; Italian-Americans sick and tired of everyone else being sick and tired, and more!Posted on July 20, 2020 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesThe Columbus statue police riot and the mayor's ongoing communication problem.Posted on July 18, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSmithfield's pork and beans.Posted on July 16, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCoke Coast no want pot shop in backyard.Posted on July 15, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDon't make me dread the Dreadhead Cowboy. Plus: Knee-deep in fucked and fill out your census.Posted on July 14, 2020 The [Monday] PapersWest Loop tomfoolery, river cruises and the Summer of George.Posted on July 13, 2020 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's air has been super filthy this summer. Plus: The saddest call of all.Posted on July 10, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWear a mask, fill out your census form.Posted on July 9, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPaycheck Protection Porn.Posted on July 8, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHeartbreaking gun violence is not just a local issue. Plus: What Cops Do & Black Census Response.Posted on July 7, 2020 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesI sense a theme.Posted on July 4, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTaste of Chicago To-Go.Posted on July 2, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNew police chief David Brown is still hayseed enough to say look who's in the big town.Posted on July 1, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIn America, bull rides you.Posted on June 30, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMore cops on the streets and cloistered editorial boards are not going to end the heartbreaking cycle of violence facing Chicago and other cities. Plus: We Are Florida Now and Washington Post Editor Should Resign.Posted on June 29, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCTU opposes unelected board and elected councils. Plus: Another Heartbreaking False Murder Conviction; McCOVID-19; and Fran Spielman's Bluff.Posted on June 25, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCops to stay in schools. Maybe.Posted on June 24, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe no-outrage machine whirrs back into action. Plus: Fireworks Frenzy; GOP vs. FOP; IDES Director Admits The Truth; and more!Posted on June 23, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMayor Meme's losing streak.Posted on June 22, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesState law trumps the police union's contract. Plus: The CTU's Scooby Doo-Doo.Posted on June 18, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDestroying police complaints and who really got arrested during Chicago's protests.Posted on June 17, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's long, failed history of policing and police reform, including police union presidents and the cops who vote for them; horrid police union contracts and the mayors who sign them; our string of rotten police chiefs; and the media's convenient amnesia when it comes to its own institutional failure in covering it all.Posted on June 16, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesKass and Korecki are structurally racist.Posted on June 15, 2020 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesSpreading socialism vs. spreading coronavirus.Posted on June 13, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIt's not about the popcorn.Posted on June 11, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesField Museum workers pissed. Plus: What Gary, Indiana Tells Us About Structural Racism & Alternate Summer 2020!Posted on June 10, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTaco Bell, you're up. Plus: Area President Leads Nation's Law Enforcement Agencies Into War Against Truth, Facts, Honesty, The Media & Basic Human Decency.Posted on June 9, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHow defunding the police is like free college. Plus: Sly Like A Foxx and That's Fran!Posted on June 8, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA long, failed history of police reform in Chicago. Plus: Kwame Raoul's bandwidth.Posted on June 4, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWe don't deserve to re-open.Posted on June 3, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNew police chief David Brown - while problematically quoting Marvin Gaye - denies the reality we've all been watching, well-documented history, and the lived experience of too many Chicagoans.Posted on June 2, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPD's rank-and-file just elected one of their worst officers to represent them, and that's a far bigger problem than this weekend's looting.Posted on June 1, 2020 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesLori Lightfoot had at least one fuck to give - and she gave it to the president.Posted on May 30, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago chokeholds. Plus: COVID County Judges, Tootsie Roll Factory Workers, Essential Unionizing, Illinois' Shocking Data Hold, Universal Unemployment Umbrage, and more.Posted on May 28, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesKneeling in America. Plus: Today In Herr Trump; CPD COVID-19; Another Nursing Home Death Trap; and more!Posted on May 27, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAbout the Trib's unemployment agency editorial. Plus: David Brown's Blunder.Posted on May 26, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWeekend hotspots: beaches, bars and churches. Plus: Illinois Unemployment Office Not Working and Hot Dogs Are Hot - And Leveraged.Posted on May 25, 2020 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesApparently Chicago isn't getting the meme.Posted on May 23, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicagoans without water face indifferent City Hall. Plus: We've Never Been In Anything All Together - And Still Aren't; The latest tall tales from Illinois' Amazingly Awesome Unemployment Office; and a Church Bulletin featuring the woeful Willie Wilson.Posted on May 21, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Reopening is going great. Just ask Ford, McDonald's, the CPD and the CTA.Posted on May 20, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGetaway day.Posted on May 19, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBlood and brats.Posted on May 18, 2020 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesI can't decide if my favorite phase was the Criminal Phase, the Dumb Phase or the Criminally Dumb Phase.Posted on May 15, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's mystery air. Plus: A reminder that Willie Wilson is not a doctor but is ridiculous. And: J.B. Pritzker is still in denial about his unemployment office and apologizes for his dumb comment about baseball players.Posted on May 14, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIllinois' Unemployment Office Remains Amazingly Awesome. Plus: Undercounting Everything, Roseland's Reality & Beer Bummer.Posted on May 13, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIllinois' Amazing Unemployment Office and The Ghosts Of Governors Past.Posted on May 12, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago too damn small . . .Posted on May 11, 2020 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesCoach houses, machetes and John Kass's bravery with other people's lives.Posted on May 10, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNursing home horribleness.Posted on May 7, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLittle Village bears the brunt. Plus: Illinois' Amazingly Awesome Unemployment Office.Posted on May 6, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJ.B. Pritzker's odd definition of "backlog." Plus: That's A Protection Program, Alright.Posted on May 5, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe inaugural COVID-19 Landlord Wall of Shame. Plus: More COVID-19 in nursing homes, jails and CPS.Posted on May 4, 2020 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesThe Chicago media's weird failure to show any interest at all in vetting new police chief David Brown, who was found by a Dallas Morning News investigation to have played a central role in that department's juking of crime stats. Plus: Illinois Nazis and more!Posted on May 2, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWherefore art thou, Tom Dart? What happened to you? Plus: Rent Is Too Damn . . . Real; and More Bad News.Posted on April 30, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesExpendable heroes.Posted on April 29, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesToday's Worst Person In Chicago During A Coronavirus Crisis. Plus: Today's Worst Person In Illinois During A Coronavirus Crisis.Posted on April 28, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesToday's Worst Company Of The Coronavirus In Illinois. Plus: House Party?Posted on April 27, 2020 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes'This is a bloodbath.'Posted on April 24, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSuburban Mask Map; Chicago's Indiana Beach Takeover; Bloodshot Rob's PSA and more!Posted on April 23, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAnd just to top everything off, Trump is poisoning Lake Michigan. Plus: Suburban Coronavirus Watch (Or, What's The Matter With Orland Park?).Posted on April 22, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA busy day offline.Posted on April 21, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesToday's Worst Company In Chicago - and it's not even Hilco.Posted on April 20, 2020 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesKilling our frontline heroes. Plus: Virtual City Council Reporting; Virtual Community Porn; The President's "Plan," and more!Posted on April 17, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPut a mask on all the talk about reopening the economy. Plus: Toni Preckwinkle's smoke-filled Zoom.Posted on April 16, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesConfirming David Brown.Posted on April 15, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHilco Hokum, including aldermanic hackery and more bizarre "reporting" from Fran "Steno" Spielman.Posted on April 14, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBig trouble in Little Village.Posted on April 13, 2020 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTrax and more.Posted on April 10, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPorn, booze, Mayor Mom and the IDES of April.Posted on April 9, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEssential office supply stores, non-essential driving. curfewed liquor stores, unemployment claims and small business relief all fucked up, and who the media thinks Chicago is (hint: people just like them!)Posted on April 8, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe president of the United States has become the world's most prominent peddler of medical misinformation - with an assist from Dr. Oz.Posted on April 7, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBlue Cross to bear, McMasks and more!Posted on April 6, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNamaste, cheating non-essential businesses! Plus: Who opposed Chicago's paid sick leave ordinance.Posted on April 2, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe three finalists for police chief are in. Let's take a look.Posted on April 1, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGeneral Iron is Today's Worst Company In Chicago - and not for the first time. Plus: Who's Gouging Who, Construction Junction, and more!Posted on March 31, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLori Lichtenfuss and various other things.Posted on March 30, 2020 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIt's your own fault, Chicago. Plus: Beer Nuts.Posted on March 27, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe usual suspects ruin the parks for the rest of us. Plus: Illinois' drug-hoarding doctors. And: Chicago's shooters socially distancing.Posted on March 26, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLightfoot, Pritzker & Trump. Plus: New Police Chief On Hold; Osama bin Gibbs; and Beer Diet Not Cute.Posted on March 25, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe gig economy, the gouge economy and the Bears economy.Posted on March 24, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMood changers.Posted on March 23, 2020 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesParty like it's 1999?Posted on March 22, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCan they really do that?Posted on March 19, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAmerica failed Patricia Frieson. And now its failing her family - and the rest of us.Posted on March 18, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPritzker may go from hero to goat in one day.Posted on March 17, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJ.B. Pritzker has been communicative, commanding and competent.Posted on March 16, 2020 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMarch Madness Replacement Brackets: Cook County vs. Northwestern in the Hospital Regional; Bernie Sanders vs. Joe Biden in the Health Care Regional. Winners to face each other.Posted on March 13, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBuilding a worker cooperative ecosystem in Chicago. Plus: Today's Coronavirus Novel and more!Posted on March 12, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCancel everything, restart the country in six weeks.Posted on March 11, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOur (Brewing) Revolution. Plus: Chicago Way Conway, The Chicag O'Way, Today's Coronavirus Novel and more!Posted on March 10, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesUncle Joe, Today's Coronavirus Novel & Failing Journalism.Posted on March 9, 2020 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesU.S. to elect a man president again.Posted on March 6, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe discontents of early voting and the Illinois ballot.Posted on March 5, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMore Politico Illinois Playedbook.Posted on March 4, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDay in the life of Politico Illinois Playbook: A threefer of journalism malpractice.Posted on March 3, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesUnpacking.Posted on March 2, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPrepping for The Move continues.Posted on February 26, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBox heroes.Posted on February 25, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesParing down my general newsroom vibe.Posted on February 24, 2020 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOur new favorite smarty-pants Naperville legislator. Plus: Belvidere Brutality; Revolving Randy; Madigan's Mouth, and more!Posted on February 21, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesToday's Best Person In Illinois.Posted on February 20, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBusting Politico's fact-free Blago defenses.Posted on February 19, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLincoln Yards' petards.Posted on February 18, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTrump's brownshirts building on the Obama playbook, written by Rahm.Posted on February 17, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHard seltzer, Sixteen Candles, Hollywood librocisy and a police chief dark horse.Posted on February 13, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDon't ever change, Lou Mitchell's. Plus: Stanley's Rotting Fruit, The Scheinfeld Show, and more!Posted on February 12, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGeneral Iron's polluted strategic communications. Plus: The Chicago Way vs. The Illinois Tollway.Posted on February 11, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTollway cookies. Plus: Chicago's Gerald Ford Explorer Plant; Media's White Pot Meets Media's White Kettle; Illinois' Gaming Gamble; Chicago Seinfeld In Lincoln Square, and more!Posted on February 10, 2020 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBuy some of my stuff.Posted on February 7, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTurtle waxing. Plus: Income Store Runs Out Of Main Product, VH1's Chicago Tattoo Shop Forgets To Ink State Papers, and more!Posted on February 6, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesImpotent media vs. criminal president. Plus: State of Lightfoot, Amnesty Illinois, Better Bankrupt Housing, and more!Posted on February 5, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBloodshot resists, pot is a leaf, Joyce Kenner's pool, Danny Davis's latest wacky endorsement, and more!Posted on February 4, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes"For a halftime show sponsored by a major soft drink manufacturer, JLo sure seemed thirsty."Posted on February 3, 2020 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFran Spielman vs. TMZ. Plus: Chicago papers heed CPD's needless embargo; Chicago Fire now a coffee shop as well as a soccer team, TV show and actual fire department.Posted on January 31, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBeck's call. Plus: Garry McCannabis; Busting Black Migration Myths; Surveilling Bridgeview; and more!Posted on January 30, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPD intelligence, artificial and otherwise.Posted on January 29, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBobby Rush, Ken Griffin, Martin Sandoval, the University of Chicago, the Obama Foundation, Carol Stream (the person, not the town), and more!Posted on January 28, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAs one person tweeted, "I will mourn the loss of Kobe Bryant and feel bad for his family while also remembering that the man got away with rape and that the woman he assaulted is now going to have to re-live the horror of it all over again as media and cruel people attack her and venerate him."Posted on January 27, 2020 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesWorking for the weekend.Posted on January 25, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHarmon does right thing for wrong reason. Plus: Juice WRLD & Peddling Pot.Posted on January 23, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBobby Rush, Black Lapdog. Plus: His Amara-like opponent.Posted on January 22, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOak Park lawyer lands big side job.Posted on January 21, 2020 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesThe buzz about rent.Posted on January 19, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMayor lights up council. Plus: The Misguided David Moore; Labor & Lipinski and Oberweis's Overbite.Posted on January 16, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesI just had a tooth pulled, AMA.Posted on January 15, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPritzker's 10-minute "interviews." Plus: Local pot to be Union Strong; vertical integration laws already broken; Martwick is a cop; and more!Posted on January 14, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBloomberg's blackless All-In Economy visits the South Side. Plus: State Farm Increasingly The Weird Old Neighbor Down The Street; Embezzler Doesn't Realize Accounting Isn't Politics; Illinois Ag Bat; Serial Prosperity Gospel; Deere's Headlights & The Trib.Posted on January 13, 2020 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCannabusiness.Posted on January 9, 2020 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLocal media would like to welcome our new Amazon warehouse overlords. Plus: Lipinski's List.Posted on January 8, 2020 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAn additional idea on the social equity front: Let black men step to the front of these long lines.Posted on January 7, 2020 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago got really high since the last time we spoke. Plus: The National Advancement of Utilities and Whitney Young's Unfirable Principal.Posted on January 6, 2020 The [New Year's Week 2019] PapersBy Steve RhodesMy favorite cat and Maker's Mark.Posted on December 30, 2019 The [Holiday Week 2019] PapersBy Steve RhodesHolocaust deniers and the Illinois GOP.Posted on December 23, 2019 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIllinois Medicaid backlog fix has a backlog.Posted on December 20, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIllinois' Impeachment. Plus: Council cannabis clowns.Posted on December 19, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe real story of city politics right now is the never-ending campaign of Preckwinkle dead-enders.Posted on December 18, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDual homestead exemptions always a bad look. Plus: California's board women and Minnesota's influx.Posted on December 17, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesToday's Worst People In Chicago are all the journos stanning for a fired city flak.Posted on December 16, 2019 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesGeography bee trial, Klobucharge, Lincoln Yards clean-up and more!Posted on December 14, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPilsen welcomes new music venue while Logan Square/Avondale says no. Plus: Illinois Medicaid is a shitshow - and it's harming real people.Posted on December 12, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes'Tis the season to get hurt on the job. Plus: Lumps Of Illinois Coal; Patch's Porch Pirates; Accounting For Bribery; Rick Nielsen's Cheap Casino Trick, and more!Posted on December 11, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAT&T vs. Harvey. Plus: The media's continuing love affair with Rahm Emanuel.Posted on December 9, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLyons insurance broker (and Nazi) running for Congress again. Plus: Navistar Struck; Dollar Generally Racist; Dumping Dealer and more!Posted on December 5, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLooks like CPD picked a bad week to stop sniffing glue.Posted on December 4, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNot So Fast Eddie Johnson.Posted on December 3, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEddie Johnson finally completes the destiny of a Chicago police chief.Posted on December 2, 2019 The [Thanksgiving Week 2019] PapersBy Steve RhodesBenny, God, Jesus, Rick Perry, Lupe Fiasco, Eddy Pineiro and a cast of thousands.Posted on November 25, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesISIS and vices.Posted on November 21, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMy advice to Tribune employees: Get out now.Posted on November 20, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhat does Milli Vanilli, George Carlin, Kevin Smith and Tavi Gevinson have in common? Plus: The latest chapter of the Neverending Red Light Camera Corruption Saga; Sweepstakes Takes; Drug-Testing The Chess Club; Carli "Pink" Lloyd and more!Posted on November 19, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMy God, we're talking about Ed Burke, perhaps the ultimate symbol of Chicago's heart of darkness. He deserves our scorn - and a prison sentence. There is nothing about him anyone should miss.Posted on November 18, 2019 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesHow to report science - a lesson from the Onion.Posted on November 16, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNaperville's Buffalo Wild Wings & The White House. Plus: Pritzker Consolidating Wins and Dorothy Brown's Wrench.Posted on November 14, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesShovel those fines away. Plus: Daylight Checking Time; Madman Across Chicago; Who's Got Next's Themes and more!Posted on November 13, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSuburban stories.Posted on November 12, 2019 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesThe missing Marlborough, Illinois Pot 101, Logan Square's Mega Monstrosity, Porn Hubbub and more!Posted on November 9, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMy pending root canal vs. Eddie Johnson's retirement press conference.Posted on November 7, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNews never dies.Posted on November 6, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLawyers, judges and money.Posted on November 5, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWill Rogers & Chicago.Posted on November 4, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe CTU strike is over.Posted on October 31, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTeachers telling lies - and the racist tax scheme they never talk about.Posted on October 30, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA lifetime achieving . . . whut?Posted on October 29, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCTU strike update, the governor likes likeness, al-Baghdadi's afterlife and other assorted goodies.Posted on October 28, 2019 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesWeedless - but not taxless - in DuPage, CSO SOL, Madigan Again and more!Posted on October 27, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhile you wait for the next CTU Strike Notebook and Some Lightfoot Budget Stuff, some items on Lake Forest-based (!) Reynolds Wrap, Amazon Care, Chicago's Bankers Building, U of C's controversial $1.4 billion telescope, and Svengoolie's best worst meet-and-greet ever.Posted on October 24, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOn the hemp beat. Plus: Chicago's quantum leap, a Chicago tie to Ukrainegate and other treats.Posted on October 23, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMKE vs. ORD - again. Plus: Chicago TBD.Posted on October 22, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDelight and disgust.Posted on October 21, 2019 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesThese are talls, man!Posted on October 19, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGeez, if I was a teacher on strike I'd sleep in. There's no school!Posted on October 17, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesI've finally reached a position regarding a teachers' strike.Posted on October 16, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAbout that Sun-Times/ABC7 Chicago poll . . .Posted on October 15, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNavy Pier Flyover Country.Posted on October 10, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA Lake County no-show job now comes with a raise. Plus: Bobby Rush keeps talking smack while getting nothing done for his constituents. And: Now accepting poems about Aurora.Posted on October 9, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIs a pot bubble bursting? Plus: Foie Gras Not Fun; The Chicago Index; The Amazing Uilheins; and Russia Is So #Winning.Posted on October 8, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe FBI's half-hearted university fishing expedition. Plus: The Lake Point Tower Condo Defense Brigade (With Cameos By David Axelrod And Alice Cooper). And: The 'SUV Driving Through The Mall' Story Isn't Very Funny Anymore.Posted on October 7, 2019 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesChicago's Patel Brothers started with an 800-square foot store on Devon Avenue in 1974. Now they - and their extended family - own the largest (and wildly popular) chain of Indian grocery stores in North America.Posted on October 5, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Museum of Ken Griffin's Industry. Which is hedge funds. Plus: News from the Financial Scandal Affairs Desk. Which is really the same thingPosted on October 3, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOut: The American Taxi Services Building. In: a new abortion clinic. Against: Beetlejuice.Posted on October 2, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBears Defenestration, Pat Foley's Deep Thought, Makeup Moxie, Starved Rock, Lollapolicia, Pay 'Em To Play 'Em and more!Posted on October 1, 2019 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesChicago's killer margarita tax zappers.Posted on September 28, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm ballyhooed and then ignored fund for struggling neighborhoods, spending exactly $0. And: Newspaper disses alderman's lack of mayoral loyalty after years of calling for aldermanic independence.Posted on September 26, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIs the Illinois Exodus real?Posted on September 25, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAlarming police reform news. Plus: CTA having a bad day, Edison schools bounced out of Chicago, and the building I live in was just sold for $2.2 million.Posted on September 24, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Woodfield Mall's route to a third airport. Plus: Climate plus ca change and Louis Y.U.C.K.Posted on September 23, 2019 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWho will lose their job first this fall, Eddie Johnson or Joe Maddon? Plus: A millennial place to park pot; Kamala's krappy Illinois list; and Illinois' children of Donor H898.Posted on September 20, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Chicago Architecture Biennial's junket journalism problem. Plus: Tony Rezko's son gets in the game; Cubs exploit Addison Russell's concussion; Betsy DeVos's secret visit; and Today's Worst Person From Chicago Is Las Vegas's Cat Lady.Posted on September 19, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChina's Chicago spy trains. Plus: Climate change finally comes to Lake Michigan! And: Huge fucking neutron star discovered. Also: the Lincoln Park camel.Posted on September 17, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEddy Pineiro did not invent the Internet. Journalism's groupthink narrative problem as told through a game-winning kick.Posted on September 16, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTaxes & Me: A 7-11 French Vanilla CoffeePosted on September 11, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesToday is the greatest.Posted on September 9, 2019 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesU of I's new commute and local pols jump in river.Posted on September 7, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSavoring the truth about the early favorite for Worst Bears Take Of The Season, Walter Payton's sweetness, and Scott Mitchell Trubisky.Posted on September 5, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSteve went to the dentist.Posted on September 4, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm Emanuel doesn't get to say that. Plus: Labor Day Lead; The Truth About That Iconic Lunch-On-The-Girder Photo; and Another Weekend At Benny's.Posted on September 3, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhitney's winning favorite interview.Posted on August 29, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhen the Bears banned blacks. Plus: Big Mac's Little Plan; Chicago Puts Giant Collection Of Air Up For Sale; School Lunch Rush; Chicago Company's Spout Doubt; and more!Posted on August 28, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGirl You Know It's True. Plus: Illinois' Secret Prison Deaths; Labor Day Weekend Presumptions; Where Is Illinois' West Nile?; State Legislator Has Never Seen Top Gun, and more!Posted on August 27, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe TIF that ate Chicago.Posted on August 26, 2019 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesPrison news metrics. Plus: Immigrant Protection Act Loophole; An Illinois Funding First; A Hideous MLB Catastrophe, and more!Posted on August 24, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesArea News: Impish Lake, Not Climate Change, Eating Up Chicago Shoreline.Posted on August 22, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe real problem with 1619.Posted on August 21, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's future climate is in Kansas. Plus: Our Proud Boy-In-Chief, Krafty Mondy Misdeeds, Ford's Daddy Issues and more, including a college beer sales postscript.Posted on August 20, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSis Boom Beer! Plus: Dick (Durbin) Jokes, Block That Cliche, Neville Mind and more!Posted on August 19, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCaptain Tupolev and the Nelson Ottos of America. Plus: Ice Pick Edit Desk, Marijuana Mile and Brown Town.Posted on August 15, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIllinois Republicans vs. Wisconsin Republicans and other contestants in Today's Worst People In The Universe.Posted on August 14, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRod Blagojevich's victims weren't just a children's hospital and some horse track operators (as though that wouldn't be enough). He victimized all of us in Illinois, and got far less than he deserved.Posted on August 13, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's most checked-out book, Chance The Rapper's spicy chicken nuggets, Mitch Trubisky's shitty training camp, a deadly Shedd mystery, Nickelback still sucks and more!Posted on August 12, 2019 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesDJ Kool Herc vs. Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, the Blagos, and the Trib's CEO.Posted on August 11, 2019 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBy and large, journalists are not really interested in changing, so it's up to you to mentally defend your mindspace and pierce the madness to find the truth.Posted on August 9, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe news from Toni Morrison - and Seymour Hersh. Plus: Blago Bullshit & Ivanka Wanka. And: David Berman Was Alive And Living In Chicago.Posted on August 8, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesClear the air in Little Village. Plus: My dentist drama.Posted on August 7, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMedicaid Mess Mitigated. Plus: Portillo's Plays Match Game.Posted on August 6, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHow bad was the Russian hack of Illinois' election system? The state and the feds disagree. Plus: The racist CPS sub shortage & the Cubs ridiculous net fretting.Posted on August 5, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMedia usually upset that debates aren't real debates now upset that candidates at debates are actually debating.Posted on August 1, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMeet the consultants behind the latest college aid scandal.Posted on July 31, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSuburban parents, city festival organizers and faux hipster businessmen behaving badly.Posted on July 30, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPot, opioids and drownings: Another Debbie Downer Edition.Posted on July 29, 2019 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesI was told it was a "Chicago-style" ale, so I asked the bartender to drag it through the garden.Posted on July 26, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe FOP's clown show. Plus: Chicago hit-and-runs and Ben Zobrist's dad speaks.Posted on July 25, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOh Daddy.Posted on July 24, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAmerica's civil cold war. Plus: The false equivalency of memes posted by Illinois Republicans and Democrats; one actually justifies the other.Posted on July 23, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJoebama. Plus: Snapper vs. Rapper; Butterfingers vs. Butterburger; Sox Net vs. Cubs Net; Pilsen vs. Pilsen; and Naperville vs. Pot.Posted on July 22, 2019 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPosts pending!Posted on July 19, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGoodbye, gator. You were a welcome respite in an absolutely horrible sea of monstrous border agent thugs, abortion gag rules, unprosecuted chokeholds and dead judges from another era. You will be missed.Posted on July 17, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHumboldt Park Gator caught, Brown Line Bird still on the loose. Plus: Light that fucking lamp.Posted on July 16, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDon't forget the dark side of the Humboldt Park Gator. Plus: Alligator Bob Out, Alligator Frank in.Posted on July 15, 2019 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesOrdinary Americans.Posted on July 13, 2019 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGoodies.Posted on July 12, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGator shots. Plus: Confederacy of Dunces Railroad & Loving Courtney.Posted on July 11, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBehind every great mythological origin story is a crime. Also: Monetize that gator!Posted on July 10, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSo it turns out the Wilmette property taxes of Todd Ricketts, onetime Commerce Secretary nominee, are askew.Posted on July 9, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMillennials killing the cold chain. Plus: Mr. Ed & Seabiscuit; Fox & The USWNT; Michael J. Fox & Hitler; #Democrats & #Republicans; Word Of The Day; and more!Posted on July 8, 2019 The [Fourth of July 2019] PapersBy Steve RhodesEnjoy today's beer, barbecue and bullshit.Posted on July 4, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDeclarations. Plus: Rat Patrol & Beam Blaze.Posted on July 3, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA boat, a bean, a moth, a mayor, a ban, a mystery, a blinded racist tribalist, a musician and marijuana.Posted on July 2, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesVice Squad, Cows On Parade, Ghosts On The Highway, Dare Force and Chicago Just Discovered She's "The Other Woman."Posted on July 1, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe year was 1859 when Peoples Gas laid a pipe it is finally removing Friday. Meanwhile, the mayor's inaugural address that year sounds awfully familiar to today ears . . .Posted on June 27, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGenius Bars, Spitgate & Tindall's Tours.Posted on June 26, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesToday's Worst Congressman In Illinois. Plus: Today's Worst Chicago Alderman. And: Ford, McDonald's and Hank the Robot.Posted on June 25, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWillie Cochran joins the club. Plus: Civility is a two-way street - and one of those ways can't be with Mitch McConnell or segregationists.Posted on June 24, 2019 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesSterling Bay's not-so-sterling diversity record. Plus: Dank Bank Wanks and Racist Rolling Stones.Posted on June 23, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCarrie Austin, Im🍑ment & Crazy Uncle Joe Biden.Posted on June 20, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGOP wants to ban protests. Plus: Full Terror Assault; Indiana Gas Attack; Against Da Fence; U of C Actually Does Right Thing; Scooter Cooter; Rolling Dead; and Crosstown Mascot Madness.Posted on June 18, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIn Chicago, scooters grow on trees.Posted on June 17, 2019 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLooks like Sigma Chi Stateville!Posted on June 14, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFederal judge eviscerates Obama Center plaintiffs opposed to Jackson Park site even as he lays bare the politics behind a fait accompli.Posted on June 13, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPost-Ubergeddon. Plus: Taj Obama, Bone Zone, Summers Time and more!Posted on June 12, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesUber's night out at the museum turns into a classic Chicago clusterfuck.Posted on June 11, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesImpeaching a Chicago pundit.Posted on June 10, 2019 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesWhen I think of volleyball, I think of North Avenue Beach. Right? Plus: Begrudging Bobby Rush, Rebranding Dorothy Brown, Fencik on Fox, and Chicago's ethics board finally slaps Ed Burke'sPosted on June 8, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCTA derailment, Rahm's new job, nature sucks, cancer chocolate, and Normandy.Posted on June 6, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSpringfield's corporate board nothingburger. Plus: State Optical is not Made In Chicago; Rahm returns to Wall Street; and the Trib edit board botches the Dead just months after botching George Carlin.Posted on June 5, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesQuick hits on the coming Chicago casino, the death of Stanley Tigerman, the plea of Ed Burke, and Chicagoland's yearbook advisors.Posted on June 4, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBest session of the Illinois General Assembly ever?Posted on June 3, 2019 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesA superseding Weekend at Benny's.Posted on June 2, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIllinois children are suffering because adults are greedy, selfish pieces of shit.Posted on May 30, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIf only Bob Mueller had a little Lori Lightfoot in him.Posted on May 29, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIf only the city put downtown first, we could stop the shootings.Posted on May 28, 2019 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBoeing's blinded board.Posted on May 23, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago beer bust, with cameos by the Mob, Laura Ingraham and Rahm Emanuel.Posted on May 22, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe media is not just buying Rahm's fiction, they're hiring it.Posted on May 21, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesInside the Lightfoot inauguration: A special report.Posted on May 20, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDylan, Alabama, Pinocchio, Airport Tinder, Victoria Williams and Today's Worst Person In Chicago.Posted on May 16, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMellon Smalley and the Infinite Badness.Posted on May 15, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's legacy.Posted on May 14, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes"The public is nearly always on the losing end of these deals."Posted on May 13, 2019 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRauner's measles.Posted on May 10, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNew on the Beachwood today.Posted on May 9, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPlease kill me.Posted on May 8, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMega-Medicaid Madness.Posted on May 7, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThat Jeopardy! guy, the poor honey bee and some personal news.Posted on May 6, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLori Lightfoot evades questions and says questionable things. The Sun-Times just shrugs.Posted on May 2, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLori Lightfoot's secret inauguration funding. Plus: Ken Griffin and the mundanity of making money.Posted on May 1, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's tough-guy narrative falls apart.Posted on April 30, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFeathering caps - Ryan Pace's draft, Rahm Emanuel's legacy and The Road to Unfreedom.Posted on April 29, 2019 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesGood job, everyone. You killed the planet. And Jesus ain't comin' back to save us.Posted on April 28, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhen should we declare America an autocracy? Now. It's happened. In America.Posted on April 25, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesToilets, inspectors general and the rotting corpse of American democracy.Posted on April 24, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhich literary character is Dorothy Brown?Posted on April 22, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMueller, the media and mendacity.Posted on April 18, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSay goodbye to Hollywood; lights out at the Heartland. Plus: Barr Time.Posted on April 17, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJohn Kass's alt-right Notre Dame.Posted on April 16, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDetroit edition.Posted on April 15, 2019 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMotherfucking journalism as practiced by a U.S. congresswoman and John Oliver.Posted on April 12, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOld Town Aquarium is moving.Posted on April 11, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe city is showing once again that it can create new neighborhoods out of thin air when and where it wants to.Posted on April 9, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAdd nauseam to the Lincoln Yards fiasco.Posted on April 9, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhen is a robust, community-driven process not robust and community-driven?Posted on April 8, 2019 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesI'll be back.Posted on April 6, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPrayer lines are open.Posted on April 3, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesVote, donut and coffee.Posted on April 2, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHow each candidate spent the final weekend of the #ChiMayor19 campaign tells us a lot.Posted on April 1, 2019 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesChronicling the latest doozies from the Tribune editorial board, including getting George Carlin exactly wrong. Not on my watch, Tribune!Posted on March 30, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBeer speaks, people mumble.Posted on March 28, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA Toni Teach-In: Her only work for CPS was a single year as a student teacher, and other juicy morsels.Posted on March 27, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMy vote for Lori Lightfoot is not without reservations, but the deeper we go into this campaign the more disgusted I am with Toni Preckwinkle.Posted on March 26, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesYou know you're in Chicago when two black women run for mayor and race is still an issue.Posted on March 25, 2019 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesGame break.Posted on March 24, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe limits of Toni Preckwinkle's pragmatism. Plus: Danny Davis's Weird Endorsement & Mending Medicaid's Mess.Posted on March 20, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRelease the records: 'The public still does not know the whole story of the Laquan McDonald case.' Plus: Preckwinkle's Housing Stories & Aldermanic Re-Runoffs.Posted on March 19, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLightfoot bandwagon getting crowded. Plus: Let libertarians and conservatives fly on their own planes and the rest of us will get to our destinations safely instead.Posted on March 18, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes10 Non-Campaign Items Including Today's Worst Person In Illinois And More From One Of America's Worst Families.Posted on March 14, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPerhaps no project in his eight-year tenure is as emblematic of Rahm as his pet police academy. But Ald. Emma Mitts might be Today's Worst Person In Chicago.Posted on March 13, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesToni Preckwinkle is doing a fine job of drawing the contrast between her and Lori Lightfoot - to her detriment.Posted on March 12, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGo Oboes!Posted on March 11, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThomas Friedman and me.Posted on March 7, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHamm's Remembers!Posted on March 6, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe best six weeks of my life were the six weeks I had mono.Posted on March 4, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPersonal day.Posted on February 28, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHorny city officially breaks up with Rahm.Posted on February 27, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesElection day donuts and coffee.Posted on February 26, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGod on the campaign trail; Chance The Rapper not.Posted on February 25, 2019 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesLast-minute lies in weekend campaign scramble.Posted on February 23, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBelieve what the candidates are inadvertently telling you. Don't believe the polls.Posted on February 21, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCall 911 - Lori Lightfoot is on fire.Posted on February 20, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSusana Mendoza finally showed up and wiped the table with Bill Daley and Toni Preckwinkle, disingenuousness notwithstanding.Posted on February 19, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLori Lightfoot wins the day, managing to show both fire and cool at the same time, on an issue that continues to haunt Toni Preckwinkle.Posted on February 18, 2019 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesIn other words, Ken Griffin, Crain's, the Tribune and Daley's relatively few but immensely rich contributors like Chicago just the way it is; the way it's always been. Let's be real clear about this.Posted on February 16, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLori Lightfoot wins Valentine's Day while Paul Vallas connects Daley's dots.Posted on February 14, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIt's all hands on deck, people. Bill Daley is on the rise.Posted on February 13, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWith just two weeks 'til Election Day and early voting underway, the clock is ticking on #ChiMayor19 candidates who still haven't been fully scrubbed.Posted on February 12, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes"The numbers are clear - everyday citizens have had virtually no financial impact on the Chicago mayoral race."Posted on February 11, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesToni Time, Daley Dive, Fabulous Forum Photos.Posted on February 7, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Beachwood family is reeling.Posted on February 6, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersJoe.Posted on February 5, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe candidates for mayor are not your friends, they're not your parents, and they're not particularly honest either. Another day on the #ChiMayor19 campaign trail.Posted on February 4, 2019 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA somewhat weird day of endorsements in #ChiMayor19.Posted on February 1, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Solis's were 2 percenters, but it wasn't enough.Posted on January 31, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Burke-Daley-Solis-Daley-Mendoza-Daley-Madigan-Reyes-Rahm Axis.Posted on January 29, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe weather news that really matters.Posted on January 28, 2019 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesMold-A-Rama, Apple Scrapple & Canadian Goosers.Posted on January 26, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWired: A Chicago Story.Posted on January 24, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSome days in this city are So Chicago. This is one of those days, and it's nothing to be proud of or entertained by. #DannySolis #EdBurke #ChiMayor19Posted on January 23, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesState of the Race, Part 4.Posted on January 22, 2019 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesState of the Race, Part 3.Posted on January 17, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesState of the Race, Part 2.Posted on January 16, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesState of the Mayoral Race, Part 1.Posted on January 15, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesReal badassery will not get you rich, sorry. That's part of being a badass.Posted on January 14, 2019 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesBoinked, doinked, mic'd and psyched.Posted on January 12, 2019 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes(Chicago-based and subsidized) Boeing's Space Force Trump card.Posted on January 9, 2019 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesH-2Bs or not H-2Bs, that is the question for employers in Chicago and beyond. Plus: Surviving R. Kelly resources, Mark Fishman vs. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, and really sad suburban crime stories.Posted on January 8, 2019 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTom Thibodeau, Joe Moore, Michael Madigan, the North Shore, and a 16-year-old Chicagoan you should know about - and whom we should all care about a helluva lot more than the others in this column.Posted on January 7, 2019 The [New Year's Week 2018] PapersBy Steve RhodesSee you next year.Posted on December 30, 2018 The [Christmas Week 2018] PapersBy Steve RhodesBenny's antlers, some Christmas stuff and a programming note.Posted on December 24, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOld Grumpy is back.Posted on December 20, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAldermanic Ballot Bollocks, Elon Musk's Hilarious Tunnel, The Stewart School Lofts, Black Pot Equity, We All Know Those Cops Conspired, and more!Posted on December 19, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJudas Priests, McDonald Delay, #TeamSpiders, Tonight's Boca Raton Bowl, The One Thing That John Wayne Gacy Would Never Admit, and more.Posted on December 18, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBreaking Packers News, Stained Glass Ceiling, NU's Mr. Peanutbutter, Space Myths, and more!Posted on December 17, 2018 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAir Raid, freshmen! Plus: Buffalo Bill Daley; Rauner's Recruits; Two Doctors In The Mayoral Race And Neither Practices Medicine, and much much more!Posted on December 14, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTop off.Posted on December 13, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAbout Amara. Plus: How Chicago's Breweries Are Like Its Murder Rate; Dennis Rodman's Fight To Stay Sober; Last Night's Mayoral Forums and Rahm's Pension Suspension Of Disbelief.Posted on December 12, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAbuse on the Chicago P.D. set. Plus: Editing the New York Times and Today's Inbox.Posted on December 11, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNational Part-time Radio, Snitch Lasagna, Trib's Faking Editorial Cartoonist, Ed Burke's Savior Complex, Juvy Junk, Bitcoin Bust and more!Posted on December 10, 2018 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesMcHenry County's ICE Machine.Posted on December 8, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGuns are smoking in the trial of the Chicago police officers accused of covering up Laquan McDonald's murder.Posted on December 6, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Only Honorable Excuse For Attending This Event Is If You Were Wearing A Wire. Plus: Cubs Trying To Install Their Own Alderman Just Like The Mob Used To; Grifter Family Dealt Temporary Setback; The Money The Berrios Clan Stole From Taxpayers Vs. The Attempted Theft Of $33 In Underwear That Landed This Man In Prison For 10 Years. Discuss; and The University Of Chicago's Library Gap.Posted on December 5, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNew Dick Wolf TV Show Idea: Chicago Backlog. Plus: It's Kaegi Time, Most Ironic Strike Ever?; Abort O'Hare Abandonment Story; Chicagoans Moving To Minnesota; Burger King's Marketing Whopper, and more!Posted on December 4, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago ER.Posted on December 3, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThis ain't no party. This ain't no disco. This is Ed Burke.Posted on November 29, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's Sexually Dimorphic Jumbo Yellow Perch. Plus: Chicago's Rats Follow The Money; Chicago Alderman Pleading Guilty Not Even Today's Worst Person In Chicago; and The Disappointing Lack Of Skullduggery Involved In Measuring Michael Madigan's Offices.Posted on November 28, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSignature achievement. #ChiMayor19Posted on November 27, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes#SnowDay.Posted on November 26, 2018 The [Thanksgiving 2018] PapersBy Steve RhodesEverything about this holiday is a lie.Posted on November 21, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThere's always a past.Posted on November 20, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIt'll be a wonder any candidate gets on the ballot for mayor.Posted on November 19, 2018 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesUnfrozen Fox Lake Accountant. Plus: Chicago Boob Inspector, Horsey Slots, Army Training Sir, and Ex Etiquette.Posted on November 17, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes"It's fast cars and whiskey, long-haired girls and fun for all concerned." Plus: The Nation's Slumlord, The Armpit Of Chicago, Trans Substantiation, and The Finest Restructured Meat Product Ever.Posted on November 15, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSusana Mendoza is in. She's the Rahm candidate.Posted on November 14, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIllinois At War: From the Revolutionary War to the bullshit War On Terror, Illinois troops have been there.Posted on November 12, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPaul Butterfield, Kerry James Marshall, The Chicago Heights Mob Enforcer Who Got Out Alive, Neonatologist Rocker Rich Krueger, When Chicago TV News Discovered House And, Oh, McRib Is Back.Posted on November 7, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLast night's results reflect 2016 pretty neatly: Democrats won the popular vote, as represented by the House, and Republicans won the Electoral College, as represented by the Senate. People vs. land.Posted on November 7, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBlue wave or bust.Posted on November 6, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIs Bruce Rauner the worst Illinois governor ever? Plus: Is Donald Trump the worst president ever? And does that make the GOP, now endorsed by the Daily Stormer, the worst major party in America ever?Posted on November 5, 2018 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesMichael Cohen's mysterious Chicago neighborhood. Plus: Lyin' Rodney Davis, Election Day at the Field, Kill The Pundits, and Ass Action Lawsuits.Posted on November 3, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes"Is this thing still going?" I said when I realized there was still something stuck in my arm. "Yeah, they ordered a lot of tests."Posted on November 1, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEd "Chuy" Burke. Plus: Megyn Kelly's disparagement, Chicago's new labor office, and Bruce Rauner's flair.Posted on October 31, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesToni Preckwinkle's secret role in the Laquan McDonald case. Plus: El Chapo Jr.; Boring O'Hare; Rejected Obama Center Designs; and Choose Your Own 7-11 Delivery Adventure.Posted on October 30, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesToday's Worst Liars in Illinois. Plus, pizza puffery!Posted on October 29, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhen CPD charges those they beat up with, um, beating them up. It's sort of like felony gaslighting.Posted on October 25, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThat wasn't a gun in the Cook County judge's pocket, he was just happy to see you.Posted on October 24, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesUncle Dan's Very Chicago Thanksgiving Day Parade and other goodies from my inbox.Posted on October 23, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIs Bruce Rauner's "Our Home" a dog whistle? Plus: Harvest Swoon and Galaxy Goof.Posted on October 22, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhich is weirder: The lawsuit by campaign workers against JB Pritzker or Toni Preckwinkle's abandoned security vehicle? Plus: Lori Lightfoot's police board, Jason Van Dyke's venue, Jason Ervin's wife.Posted on October 18, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRich dudes and their toilets.Posted on October 17, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhatever.Posted on October 16, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSears owes taxpayers a refund. Plus: City unsurprisingly falls way short of affordable housing goal.Posted on October 15, 2018 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesAmerica's most putrid pork polluter is right here in Illinois.Posted on October 14, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDaley Crowned; Bulls' Official Asset Manager; AFL-CIO LOL; Biometric Burke, Who Own Da Beach?; and Food Desert Debacle.Posted on October 11, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesElon Musk's mysterious car lots. Plus: Opera musicians, city colleges faculty and hotel workers should unite.Posted on October 10, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHonor Columbus today and discover a new beer.Posted on October 8, 2018 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBy the way, you're allowed to put ketchup on your Malort.Posted on October 5, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHow They Really Got Rich; Today's Worst Person With A Connection To Chicago; Possessing Pilsen; Chicago's History Of Police Violence; Chicago's Slow Growth To Nowhere.Posted on October 3, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMore tomorrow.Posted on October 2, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFar from "setting the record straight," unvetted Op-Eds placed for PR purposes undermine reporters and fool readers.Posted on October 1, 2018 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTrump is the light in his world, a half of the heart of his.Posted on September 28, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLet the damn sunshine in, Illinois! Plus: Our Home, Our Lead; Our Surveillance State; Our Crime Rates; Our Markham Mayors, and more!Posted on September 26, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThis day has gotten away from me. See y'all tomorrow!Posted on September 25, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWendy's prying eyes, Trump screws local CB manufacturer, and CPS bungles nursing corps.Posted on September 24, 2018 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesPaging Elon Musk: The Navy Pier Flyover needs your help. Plus: Rauner's Latest Lie; Brett Kavanaugh Rehearsing For Thursday's Play; Latest Lead Lines Lunacy; and No Robots In Baseball, Please.Posted on September 23, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJon Burge, the media and the FOP.Posted on September 20, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAdd 42 seconds to 16 shots: The remarkable - and remarkably sad - Jason Van Dyke trial. Also in the courtroom: the code of silence and testilying alive and well.Posted on September 18, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm Emanuel is literally poisoning us.Posted on September 18, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBill Daley, Jason Van Dyke, Shizzoner, Banned Trump Rally Songs and twice the mess with CPD & CPS.Posted on September 17, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRescue Cats, Lincoln Park Pirates, Chicago Bears, Really Big Birds and more!Posted on September 13, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes#MeToo hits Mayor McCheese. Plus: Today's Worst Person Visiting Chicago.Posted on September 12, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes#ChicagoHotelStrike and adserver in space.Posted on September 11, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPalmer House Jiltin'. Plus: Rocky Wirtz's Big Pot Score; Naperville Cake Decorator Presumably Eviscerated.Posted on September 10, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThere's beer in Texarkana and they're thirsty in Atlanta.Posted on September 6, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe race for mayor just became an epic shitshow. Watch how Chicago works.Posted on September 5, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm is out and I have to do my taxes.Posted on September 4, 2018 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesLong, sporadic weekend.Posted on August 31, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Jason Van Dyke Interviews. Plus: The #Resistance Will Be Brewed; Lane Tech's Breakfast Club; Willie Wanka; Downtown Horse-Sharing, and more!Posted on August 29, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBefore America to Me and Oak Park-River Forest High School, there was "We're All Racist Now" and Proviso West. Plus: Imperfect Produce Journalism; McCain's Moment Assignment Fulfilled; Downtown Chicago Horse Lanes, and more!Posted on August 28, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMcCain's Moment, Hail To The Bus Driver, Oh Canada, and more!Posted on August 27, 2018 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFearless Authenticity; The Ugly Truth Of Ugly Produce, Featuring Phat Beets; Mental Illness Is A Death Sentence For Many In America's Jails; Unaffordable Neighborhoods, Affordable Suburbs; Steven Tyler Redux, and more!Posted on August 24, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLithuania in Lemont; Slow Motion Criminal Justice; Hoover Vacuum Family Drama; Steven Tyler vs. Trump, and more!Posted on August 23, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTrumpago. Plus: Dio's Estate Sale; Rauner vs. Urban Farming; Rockford Tire Mire; The Overdose Reverser; Poop Nearly Kills Man; Fixing Hooters, and more!Posted on August 22, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFly Like The Eagles, Agent Trump, Hide The Hydrox, Medonna and more!Posted on August 21, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTrump's planned distractions, Rauner's lost EMT vote, and another privatized public art loss in Chicago.Posted on August 20, 2018 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesEast Chicago's ongoing agony. Plus: Vic Mensa's reverse bait car and bunch of other stuff!Posted on August 19, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLiars, charlatans and lesser evils.Posted on August 16, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCheap judge reprimanded; Einstein's Nazi death beams; what our eyeballs are worth to advertisers; Taste of Black Chicago; more Catholic Church evil.Posted on August 15, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBruce Rauner incentivizes employers to not hire a 15th employee. Plus: James Montgomery's anger; fatal Wilmette boat explosion; new, condensed therapy; and Trump's impeachable treatment of the Chicago River.Posted on August 14, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm Emanuel may have declared Chicago a Trump-free zone, but his police department certainly hasn't.Posted on August 13, 2018 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAnimal rescue edition.Posted on August 10, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's moral center of gravity.Posted on August 9, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWilbur Ross, Kathleen Turner, Alex Jones, Nixon and Booray.Posted on August 8, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe right questions to ask about last weekend's shootings and Rahm's questions to ask about last weekend's shootings. The twain shall not meet.Posted on August 7, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesStopping the violence: Something has to change. That something is the same old economic development strategies, which never change.Posted on August 6, 2018 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve Rhodes"[Jeff Bezos] needs to spend roughly $28 million a day just to keep from accumulating more wealth." Plus: Chicago's Sad Mecca Flats Story, The Chesapeake Crab Scam, Artist Transform Our City's Dying Trees and more!Posted on August 5, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's Secrets, Madigan's Puppies, Moe's Tavern, Lake Zurich's Paper Clips, Harvard's Clout List, Obama's Endorsements, Mueller's Negotiations, Rockford's Clock Tower and more!Posted on August 2, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWillie Wonka Wilson. Plus: The Nature of Miracles, Ashton Belushi, Chicago's Wet Mayor and more!Posted on August 1, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe real Bridget Gainer story. Plus: Lisa Madigan For President; Irving Park's Underground Railroad; Will B3 Sink Rahm's Battleship?; and more!Posted on July 31, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGainer gone and other delights.Posted on July 30, 2018 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesKreepy Ken Kurson. Plus: Another Daley Deposition Averted; Bruce Rauner's Granite City Goof; LiLo vs. Blago; and more!Posted on July 27, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's unapologetic, institutionally racist sticker shock. Plus: Granite City, Tribune, Posner, Butina, Rauner, Pritzker, Club Lucky and more!Posted on July 26, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes"Gentrification has made it very difficult for our [mostly Hispanic] families who lived here and grew up here to stay in this school," the principal of Logan Square's Brentano Elementary says. Plus: Corporate tipping scams, one state's cool-ass illegal tiki bar, the Bionic Wrench and more!Posted on July 25, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesElon Musk is getting desperate. Plus: Dr. Willie Wilson, Lovie Smith's beard, the Gold Pyramid house, and Billy Joel's ideal farewell concert.Posted on July 24, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAssignment Desk: What's the deal with Willie Wilson? Plus: Granite City Stories, Rahm's Repaving, Ivanka's Signature Move, America's Crackers and more!Posted on July 23, 2018 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesCar title loans, Canadian geese, Michael Ferro's sled and other discontents.Posted on July 21, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTrump Derangement Syndrome.Posted on July 19, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSee ya' tomorrow!Posted on July 18, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRegardless of the details of Harith Augustus's death, which is sad and tragic in any case, an awful lot of people want change.Posted on July 17, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTrump, treason, truth and "tough" questions.Posted on July 16, 2018 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve Rhodes71st & Chappell, East Chicago and Elon Musk.Posted on July 15, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesInside George Lucas's Star Wars Museum Wars. Plus: Millionaire Matters & Money Honey Dummy.Posted on July 12, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe difficult life behind a South Elgin suicide-by-cop.Posted on July 11, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe multiple media narratives of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Plus: Your TV Is Watching You.Posted on July 10, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm, Rauner and the Ryan.Posted on July 9, 2018 The [4th Of July Falls On A Wednesday This Year] PapersBy Steve RhodesAmerica rotting from the inside - with a little push from Putin.Posted on July 4, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIt's sort of week.Posted on July 3, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBeachwood HQ will be at half-mast this week to mark the tenuous nature of our pseudo-democracy.Posted on July 2, 2018 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesUrban opioids.Posted on June 29, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThis country.Posted on June 28, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLidia K. Souza has arrived in Chicago and she wants her 9-year-old son back. It's not going well.Posted on June 27, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes'Election-year pandering on steroids.' Plus: Cal (Not Lou) Burke & CSO: Coughing Symphony Orchestra.Posted on June 26, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNow we know the number of separated border children in Chicago: 66. Today, the spotlight shines on one in particular.Posted on June 25, 2018 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's border children, the Heartland Alliance and Rahm's Trump-like White House advice. Plus: The National Enquirer, John Kass and #HillarysHealth.Posted on June 22, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesScheming on a thing that's a mirage. I'm trying to tell you now, it's sabotage.Posted on June 20, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Foxconn walk into a bar . . .Posted on June 19, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTrump's fishy Chicago tower. Plus: The DuSable Museum Mystery & Amazon's Spy Games.Posted on June 18, 2018 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesIn a city different than this one, a mayor, given control of the school system expressly to provide accountability, could not survive such a record of hurting children as Rahm Emanuel has compiled. In a city different than this one.Posted on June 16, 2018 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe real news buried in Rahm's deposition. Plus: Crumbling Schools & The Hype o' Loop. And: That's Why They Call It 'Concealed' Carry.Posted on June 15, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWe were promised jetpacks, not hyperloops.Posted on June 14, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesInternational House of Bullshit.Posted on June 13, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWill take best offer.Posted on June 12, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCan Dennis Rodman save the world from a nuclear apocalypse? I'd say the chances are about the same as "rolling a Pippen."Posted on June 11, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesI was afraid to call the cops because I feared the man would end up dead.Posted on June 7, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIf a mayor fails in a forest and no one hears him, did he really fail at all?Posted on June 6, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBetter luck Tuesday.Posted on June 4, 2018 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesThe weird search for Alberto Lopez. Plus: United We Fail.Posted on June 2, 2018 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesClear right fucking now.Posted on June 1, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe deportation machine and Chicago. Plus: More Blago Media Malfeasance.Posted on May 31, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGame over, Gainer.Posted on May 30, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMemorial Day Weekend sucks.Posted on May 29, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBack to Benny's.Posted on May 24, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMonologue.Posted on May 23, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesStudy shows Rahm's mass school closings were every bit the disaster some of us predicted.Posted on May 22, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Beachwood covers the #RoyalWedding the only journalistically responsible way.Posted on May 21, 2018 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHow we treat the disabled, troubled kids and dogs.Posted on May 18, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOh, Bumble Bee.Posted on May 17, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Week (So Far) In Illinois' Liars Club.Posted on May 16, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFailed species in a mind-boggling universe. Or: From inert goo to Bruce Rauner.Posted on May 15, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGreatest Amendatory Veto Ever.Posted on May 14, 2018 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesReese Mathers loves the Beachwood. Plus: Fox Con Air, Thin Blue Cross Line, Seal Team Sex, and ME Chicago.Posted on May 12, 2018 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAlmost there. Maybe.Posted on May 10, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWorking on it.Posted on May 10, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe 200th episode of The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour has been scheduled - and you're invited.Posted on May 8, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDetails to come.Posted on May 7, 2018 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesLost weekend.Posted on May 6, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFoxconn farce will kill us all.Posted on May 3, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRolex rat.Posted on May 2, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWaylaid.Posted on May 1, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhen your 12-year-old son faces racism in Little League on the Southwest Side. Plus: White House Correspondents Sinners.Posted on April 30, 2018 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesThe Chicago Justice Media Project will be presenting at Hack Night on Tuesday. Plan accordingly.Posted on April 28, 2018 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRed State.Posted on April 27, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDraft dunce. Plus: Digg Me Out, Fighting Facebook, Smoking Out Gun Nuts, and Texting Rahm.Posted on April 26, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Van Dyke docket. Plus: Assignment Desk, HMU!Posted on April 25, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMichael Madigan's Magical Machine.Posted on April 24, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes"It's meant to honor those killed in a POW camp. It was created to symbolize unity. Yet, now, a symbol of a regime that espoused white supremacy is comfortably situated inside a [Chicago] cemetery surrounded by a black community."Posted on April 23, 2018 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesQuickie.Posted on April 21, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA golden age (of sorts) for Chicago journalism? Plus: Graybangers; AmazonHQ2-Fer; Sister Faculty; Garden Party; Toni Time; The Dorothy Brown Show; The Aristocrats; Today's Worst Person In Chicago; and April Hope, Soul Sucker.Posted on April 19, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGet ready for the beatdown of your life.Posted on April 18, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWeeks of Chicago Rock.Posted on April 17, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesReminder: Trying to "sell" Obama's Senate seat was the least of Blago's crimes. And he got a major break when it came to sentencing. So don't believe the apologists - including a significant portion of the media.Posted on April 16, 2018 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesBut I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.Posted on April 15, 2018 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe deader side of Sears.Posted on April 13, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBroken record.Posted on April 12, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTribes.Posted on April 11, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes'Journalists have been remarkably accepting of their buyouts and layoffs.'Posted on April 10, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHyperlocal weather.Posted on April 9, 2018 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesTime to disrupt the comedy club model.Posted on April 7, 2018 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS's new ghost school, Judas Priest's metal tears, a new old hole in the soul, Chicago Krylon, and more!Posted on April 6, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBill O'Reilly's sexual harassment settlement spin zone.Posted on April 5, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFrom foul line to picket line at Loyola Chicago.Posted on April 4, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSun-Times investor group includes at least one woman - and she just got hired by the Sun-Times.Posted on April 3, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe representation of women remains Pretty Prehistoric.Posted on April 2, 2018 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesNews flash: God has not been fixing Loyola games.Posted on April 1, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSpring break at Dr. Nick's Bucktown timeshare.Posted on March 28, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFair to partly gloomy.Posted on March 27, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOur Ramblers coverage began on our December 10th sports podcast, when I asked our very own Jim "Coach" Coffman: "Is Loyola good?"Posted on March 26, 2018 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesChicago teens march for their lives.Posted on March 24, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe media never knows when enough is enough.Posted on March 22, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPostprimarypartum.Posted on March 21, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe audacity of dickheads.Posted on March 20, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCampaign notebooks. Plus: Emergency Doctor!Posted on March 19, 2018 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesLet's Go Hobos! Starring Jonah Hill as Bo Rambler. Plus: We Killed Some Folks.Posted on March 17, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe media consensus about Chris Kennedy's debate performance is wrong. Plus: The Great School Walkout of 2018 and Today's Worst Company In Chicago.Posted on March 14, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIncontrovertibly documented: Bruce Rauner is a serial liar.Posted on March 14, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSwainson's Warble, Pander Bears, Yerkes Observatory and Hate.com.Posted on March 8, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGun law not working right in Cook County. Plus: Dart's backtrack. And: Good riddance to The Loop.Posted on March 7, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA look back at unbelievable CPS class size assertions, Chicago's lost G8 summit, Nixon's 1974 visit and more!Posted on March 6, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAnd the Chicago Oscars go to . . .Posted on March 5, 2018 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesLooking back at The Homan Square Papers, Obama's FOIA Fail, Tronc's Top Tribbie & Arby's Chicago-Style Beef Dip.Posted on March 4, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRunning on change is running on empty.Posted on March 1, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTaxpayer-funded spokespeople shaped false messages for the media while veterans died.Posted on February 28, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe mayor's new arena is just the latest project built on laughably false projections. It's a familiar script, and now the DePaulia has the wonderfully ugly facts.Posted on February 27, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAramark's Black History Month is not going well.Posted on February 26, 2018 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesAwesome Show Notes.Posted on February 25, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMy sticky paws were into making straws out of big fat slurpy treats.Posted on February 22, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Tribune's selective memory on succession politics.Posted on February 21, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBig Soda's Cook County deceit + Fran Spielman's #MeToo backlash = Today's Two Worstish People In Chicago.Posted on February 20, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGarry McCarthy loses the sighted vote. Plus: Feeling John Kass's pain.Posted on February 15, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBehind the Bling. Plus: a nation's last whimper.Posted on February 14, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhy do I instinctually suppose East Chicago residents just got screwed (again)?Posted on February 13, 2018 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesThe (quick) return of the sick call narrative. Plus, Today's Worst Person In Chicago.Posted on February 10, 2018 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDibs heroes and zeroes.Posted on February 9, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesToday's Worst Person in Media.Posted on February 8, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCreepto currency. Plus: Ferro's Fabulous Folly; The Insane Amazon-Boeing Axis; Today In The Paradise Papers.Posted on February 7, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesShills, cruel jokes and CPS turnarounds.Posted on February 6, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe problem with Super Bowl Fever.Posted on February 5, 2018 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesIt's a Beachwood Super Bowl: no double-dipping.Posted on February 4, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNew lawsuit seeks to pry Chicago's Amazon HQ2 bid from Rahm Emanuel's cold hands.Posted on February 1, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhere have you gone, comfort peacock? A nation turns to you.Posted on January 31, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes"See you tonight, freedom fighters/beer drinkers/hip shakers!"Posted on January 29, 2018 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesDon't look away. Plus: Prehistoric Chicago, Doomsday, Rahm's Rules, and The Beachwood Radio Network.Posted on January 27, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFt. Teddy Bear.Posted on January 25, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBackwards Bridget. Plus: How to pronounce "Chicago Politics," and what is still Made in America.Posted on January 24, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCatching up with the month in Chicago rock; Stephen Baldwin on the South Side; Facebook bullshit; and more!Posted on January 23, 2018 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHow to build Trump's wall - every year.Posted on January 19, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes'A fair tax system will be lost without public pressure.' Plus: White Mystery Alert & Lake Michigan's Ice Sculpture Beach.Posted on January 18, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesObama library responsive to wealthy white people, but not poor people of color - just like his presidency.Posted on January 17, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOn Martin Luther King Day, appearing on WVON radio, Gov. Bruce Rauner refused to call David Duke a racist - and punted on President Trump. Nice goin'.Posted on January 16, 2018 The [MLK Birthday 2018] Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesRedeeming the soul of America.Posted on January 14, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChallenging Berrios - and his powerful friends like the mayor and the president.Posted on January 10, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesToday's Worst People In Illinois: Chris Kennedy, J.B. Pritzker, Bruce Rauner, Joe Berrios, Fritz Kaegi's former fund co-managers, and spokesperson Monica Trevino.Posted on January 9, 2018 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSkatin'.Posted on January 8, 2018 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes"This is evil. It would be more humane to just line them up against the building and shoot 'em as compared to taking away what little they had and then expecting them to fend in this cold for themselves with nothing," says priest about City of Chicago.Posted on January 4, 2018 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHmu, reducks.Posted on January 3, 2018 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes2018 squad goal.Posted on January 2, 2018 The [New Year's] Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesThe best countdown of 2017. Plus: The best movie of 2017. And: An important reminder for 2018.Posted on December 31, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's homeless shelters are packed. "It's life and death out there."Posted on December 28, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA start in East Chicago.Posted on December 27, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's real Moe's Tavern. Plus, journalists still failing to reckon with American reality.Posted on December 26, 2017 The [War On Merry Christmas] Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesThe war is over - if you want it to be.Posted on December 24, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago has basically lost the population of Buffalo in African-American residents over the last two decades.Posted on December 22, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's Clean Sweep.Posted on December 21, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe United States as tax haven.Posted on December 20, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAmerica killing more civilians under Donald Trump. Plus: Chicago's clouted airbnb ordinance unsurprisingly isn't working.Posted on December 19, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCaterpillar and business journalism.Posted on December 13, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMeanwhile . . .Posted on December 12, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMeanwhile . . .Posted on December 7, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFederal judge: We can infer Rahm Emanuel's law department intentionally withheld documents - again.Posted on December 6, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGlass, plate, window, insulated lighting, wire, negative energy.Posted on December 5, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe University of Illinois' new City Colleges of Chicago transfer program strikes out.Posted on December 4, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLuis Gutierrez retired 10 years ago. Plus: Pioneering gay drummers, Special Olympics flag football, the Big Mac creator's lousy plaque and more!Posted on December 1, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRemembering 16 Shots. Where was Rahm?Posted on November 30, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAre serial killers walking Chicago's streets?Posted on November 29, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDeporting America.Posted on November 28, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's law department isn't ready for reform.Posted on November 27, 2017 The [Thanksgiving 2017] PapersBy Steve RhodesGobble, gobble, motherfuckers.Posted on November 21, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhat a shitshow.Posted on November 20, 2017 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesGo to the Fall Record Label Fair. Or meet me at Cafe Mustache.Posted on November 18, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJunk food journalism.Posted on November 17, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRevisiting "A Modest Transit Proposal."Posted on November 16, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Laquan McDonald grand jury disappoints, to say the least, but sadly does not surprise.Posted on November 15, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDonna Brazile's bullshit.Posted on November 14, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Chicago skyline after climate change really kicks in.Posted on November 13, 2017 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesTax havens alive with the sound of music.Posted on November 11, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOffshore hush-hush.Posted on November 10, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRich people are ruining it for everybody. Plus: Chance & Obama. And: Cairo Calling, featuring Today's Worst Person In Illinois.Posted on November 9, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJust how much money is held offshore? Hint: ENOUGH TO SOLVE ALL OUR PROBLEMS.Posted on November 8, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNorth State Street.Posted on November 6, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBaby Bean.Posted on November 6, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNow, the Papers on demand!Posted on November 3, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIron & Wine.Posted on November 2, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAbout those gummy bear incentives . . .Posted on November 1, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCop calculus.Posted on October 31, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChiller Theatre.Posted on October 30, 2017 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesSmorgasbord.Posted on October 28, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAin't that a shame.Posted on October 26, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCardboard City, Beancapades, Elvis Cobain.Posted on October 25, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLaquan who? Amazon, that's who!Posted on October 24, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesI've been sick, people.Posted on October 23, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTouch and go.Posted on October 3, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDead inside.Posted on September 29, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSave Puerto Rico & Mexico; Hugh Hefner Was A Monster; Families for Depression Awareness; and more!Posted on September 28, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMaking movies.Posted on September 27, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRenegades of Funk.Posted on September 26, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSticking to sports.Posted on September 25, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesShooketh.Posted on September 22, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPancakes, booze, art.Posted on September 21, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesForgive yourself. And drink local.Posted on September 20, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesYou matter always. Overthrow the status.Posted on September 19, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA call for help from Chicago's Rohingya Culture Center.Posted on September 18, 2017 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesThey're not the only ones.Posted on September 16, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWords and guitar.Posted on September 14, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMidnight oasis.Posted on September 13, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMeeting of Styles!Posted on September 12, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSuperheroes.Posted on September 11, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPilsen.Posted on September 8, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesZombie Dogs, Hurricane Cats and a Second City of Ants.Posted on September 6, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAll condiments matter.Posted on September 5, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesShit's fucked up.Posted on August 31, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWelcome to the Combine, Governor Rauner. Your table was waiting all along.Posted on August 30, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDemocrats own state's first school voucher program.Posted on August 29, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesI mustered some stuff.Posted on August 28, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA work in progress.Posted on August 25, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBruce Rauner's Big Top.Posted on August 24, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTrump's wars.Posted on August 23, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBark at the moon.Posted on August 22, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEclipse Fest.Posted on August 21, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhere we're at.Posted on August 18, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHeather Heyer's mother is the president we don't have.Posted on August 16, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesInside Charlottesville - and the president's heart.Posted on August 15, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRe-enacting history.Posted on August 14, 2017 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesRegion report.Posted on August 12, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago food making us sick.Posted on August 10, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFor completists.Posted on August 8, 2017 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesLyin'.Posted on August 5, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesReal Rauner, Real Madrid.Posted on August 3, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHands off LaCroix and Taco Bell, bitches!Posted on August 2, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGovernor Oops.Posted on August 1, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJohn Kass's (latest) deplorable column.Posted on July 31, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAssignment Desk: Ask Rahm Emanuel to drink from the most lead-filled fountain in the story.Posted on July 28, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEarly Warning: Humboldt Park Mini-Con.Posted on July 27, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFoxx's trials and Rauner's desk.Posted on July 26, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCrane Kenney strikes (out) again.Posted on July 25, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSame old shit, just a different motherfucking night.Posted on July 24, 2017 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesMore like Pokemon No Fest.Posted on July 23, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGroove armada.Posted on July 20, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGoodnight Chicago, Harajuku and the Homer Opera House.Posted on July 19, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe baloney Chris Kennedy and Bruce Rauner are selling.Posted on July 18, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe best laid plans of mice and men . . .Posted on July 17, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLife during wartime.Posted on July 14, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesStay tuned.Posted on July 13, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIn the end you negate everything that was good in the first place.Posted on July 11, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesInmate voting, budget myths and a Lilo vs. Blago flashback.Posted on July 10, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA state budget morality play in multiple parts.Posted on July 7, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLet's face it: Bruce Rauner is a very bad man.Posted on July 6, 2017 The [Fourth Of July 2017] PapersBy Steve RhodesPlaceholder.Posted on July 3, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhat's English for illegal?Posted on June 29, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLet's play Twister, let's play Risk.Posted on June 28, 2017 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesThe Blue Ribbon Glee Club came, saw and conquered. Then we all joined in and sang right back at 'em.Posted on June 24, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe party playlist is in pre-production, people.Posted on June 22, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThis just in.Posted on June 20, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIt's happening. Bring a map - of anything.Posted on June 19, 2017 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesChicago now has a gourmet marshmallow cafe. I'm not sure how I feel about this.Posted on June 17, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesKeep Union weird.Posted on June 15, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBeachwood Fest! Starring Adam West and the Blue Ribbon Glee Club.Posted on June 14, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhite opioid users vs. black drivers.Posted on June 12, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMuddy Waters nine stories tall.Posted on June 9, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe police reform agreement that isn't. Plus: Fran Spielman's alternate reality.Posted on June 8, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLove the El, hate the CTA.Posted on June 6, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's phony police reform, Rauner's phony everything, and phony arguments about the 606.Posted on June 6, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm hits the trifecta - failing at all three of his jobs.Posted on June 5, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBehind #BudgetlessBruce's budgetlessness.Posted on June 2, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBudgetless Bruce. Plus: Kennedy and Pritzker have the same problem.Posted on June 1, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRauner kills 911 legislation as the band plays on.Posted on May 31, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHow can we forget the true meaning of Memorial Day when the media reminds us every year that we've forgotten it?Posted on May 30, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChris Kennedy to introduce exciting new phase of campaign!Posted on May 26, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDemocracy dies behind a paywall, early voting, bad journalism and a Top Gun sequel.Posted on May 25, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's CPS graduation policies get even follier.Posted on May 24, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPoor Cubs rip off Mesa taxpayers.Posted on May 23, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPritzker takes page from Rauner's cynical playbook.Posted on May 22, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHancock renaming ritual. Plus: Sanford & Dylan.Posted on May 19, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesICYMI.Posted on May 18, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMichael Ferro is giving us all tronchitis.Posted on May 17, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesYesterday's Tronc news tomorrow, hopefully. Plus other stuff.Posted on May 16, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJ.B. Pritzker shows his gubernatorial chops.Posted on May 15, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMe and Zero request you in the Mercedes.Posted on May 12, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIf only the state didn't sew Rahm's mouth shut, he could have alerted everybody to the extent of CPS's financial distress.Posted on May 11, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSnowden: "This FBI Director has sought for years to jail me on account of my political activities. If I can oppose his firing, so can you."Posted on May 10, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPD's nonexistent moonlighting policy. Plus: The false gang rifle narrative, and how to tell who is lying about that Preckwinkle-Rauner phone call.Posted on May 9, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMade in Chicago: Prick Blades.Posted on May 8, 2017 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesNewborn lemur; $30,000 3BR on South Lowe; a brief visual history of Black Muslims in Chicago.Posted on May 6, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA huge owl-like creature that looked to be six feet with glowing red eyes. People threw rocks at it.Posted on May 4, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMalort: Tonight's the night you fight your dad.Posted on May 3, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFly Lufthansa.Posted on May 2, 2017 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesWho are we to question Ryan Pace?Posted on April 29, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRoad to ruin.Posted on April 26, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesValerie Jarrett's NEIU commencement speech should be titled "How It Often Takes Public Shaming To Motivate Leaders Showered With Unmerited Praiseworthy Media Coverage To Do The Right Thing."Posted on April 26, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesReminder: Even the reformers in Illinois are crooked. Plus: Sigma Alpha Oopsilon; Bruce Rauner's Subscription Superstar; and Beardstown Bullshit.Posted on April 25, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLet the people go!Posted on April 21, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Contractor Factor. Plus: Why You Should Fear Sinclair Media, Today's Worst Person In Chicago Not Named Todd Ricketts, and more!Posted on April 20, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesConsulting the city council on ethics. Plus: What's up with CPD News Affairs staffing?; Rauner, abortion and e-mail "interviews;" more Sean Sphincter; and why blaming Hillary Clinton is wrong.Posted on April 19, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesVaunted local columnist unaware of Sean Sphincter. Plus: God & Chicago, South Shore evictions, ex-CBOT chair dodging divorce payments, and party buses on water.Posted on April 18, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBruce Rauner is lyin' again. Plus: A taxing Tax Day report, the old new American story, before Dao, and millennial St. Louis.Posted on April 17, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNew police union president off to a portentious start.Posted on April 14, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's police officers have just doubled down against reform.Posted on April 13, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEven Hitler wasn't dragged off a plane.Posted on April 12, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesUnited we fall.Posted on April 11, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's reformy police video release policy exposed as fake.Posted on April 10, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhen the CHA doesn't think some kids are "poisoned enough" to merit intervention.Posted on April 7, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's new plan for high school kids not very well planned.Posted on April 6, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's racist insurance premiums. Plus: When Does Rauner Get The Trump Treatment? and The DePaul Arena Shell Game, Continued.Posted on April 5, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBike lanes vs. violence. Plus: Cops vs. life; the lottery vs. transparency, ethics.Posted on April 4, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDon't look to Ronnie & Rosty for a romantic model of tax reform.Posted on April 3, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRauner's latest victim: Chicago Wilderness.Posted on March 31, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPop Is Dead Again. Heroin Chic. Build Comiskeyville. Rahm's Infrastructure Bust. More Bears Garbage. And more!Posted on March 30, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhere's Rahm's desegregation plan? A way forward. Plus: Fun personal notes.Posted on March 29, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBurke's Rules, The Not Ready For Prime Time Democratic Players, Museum Blues, Chicago Spangled Spanier, Rahm's Predatory Pricing Policy, and The Problem With Weathercasters Continued.Posted on March 28, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's yellow-bellied meteorologists. Plus: Right museum, wrong location.Posted on March 27, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesInside the mind of the greatest artist of all time.Posted on March 24, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe problem with anecdotal leads, as exemplified by today's Tribune.Posted on March 23, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSaving Sears.Posted on March 22, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBuild Peotone already, for godsakes.Posted on March 20, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLook at my resume.Posted on March 17, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm Daley.Posted on March 16, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRachel Maddow has been pulling this shit for years.Posted on March 15, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEditor's note.Posted on March 13, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSo, yeah, corrupt media.Posted on March 10, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesExploits.Posted on March 9, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRichard Simmons, Kyle Schwarber and Edward Snowden together.Posted on March 8, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPacing.Posted on March 7, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesProgramming note.Posted on March 6, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHere's some stuff.Posted on March 3, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAmerica, delete your account.Posted on March 1, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNormalizing.Posted on February 28, 2017 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesReminders.Posted on February 25, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNo proper column.Posted on February 22, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAldermen stake claims to Rahm's property tax rebate slush fund.Posted on February 21, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDebbie Nelson, office worker from Orland Park, your Twitter feed is full of adorable pandas, and I don't mean to punch down, but you are Today's Worst Person In Chicagoland.Posted on February 20, 2017 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesPunxsutawney, Illinois.Posted on February 18, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSkilling in Edgewater, Hooter's in Cicero, Pepe in the White House, Boeing on the line, Immigrants at home, poison on the Far Southeast Side, Evanston in Apple, hate groups in Illinois, and more!Posted on February 16, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFlynnghazi. Plus: Peter Roskam plays Telephone (badly).Posted on February 14, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRascally Roskam. Plus: Grammy Whammy & What Hitler Couldn't Do.Posted on February 13, 2017 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesEmpty statements, empty pockets. Starring the Wall Street Journal and Susanna Hoffs.Posted on February 12, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFrom condoms to Lysol.Posted on February 10, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's minimized minimum wage. Plus: Serial liars, journalism and the Muslim Ban hearing.Posted on February 8, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesUnited Airlines We Stand? Plus: The police union's fake news.Posted on February 7, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesI don't mind saying once again that David Kidwell's red-light reporting has been absolutely remarkable. In fact, I rejoice in saying it! Inspiring and important. Journalism!Posted on February 6, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesToday's Worst Person Within Two States Of Chicago.Posted on February 3, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPunching Nazis.Posted on February 2, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhite Christians are killing us.Posted on February 1, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThank the lawyers, kill the printer-makers.Posted on January 31, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes"The BBC World Service reporter's social media accounts were probed despite him having traveled to Chicago's O'Hare airport from London Heathrow while holding a British passport."Posted on January 30, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTrump, Trump, Trump.Posted on January 26, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Extra Value Tax Meal, Bruce's Bears & Minnesota's Turnaround Agenda.Posted on January 25, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAbout Chicago's missing Trump signs.Posted on January 24, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesKellyanne Conway's clown show and the normalization of deceit.Posted on January 23, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesInauguration reporting from Jonathan Pie.Posted on January 20, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChelsea Manning delivered "one of the most cited and valuable archives in journalism."Posted on January 18, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's critics right again.Posted on January 17, 2017 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesCPD, DOJ, Rahm, Obama, McGruff and Flukey Stokes.Posted on January 14, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's newest Public Enemy No. 1.Posted on January 12, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWeren't we all just talking about the importance of facts?Posted on January 11, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Price of Pork.Posted on January 10, 2017 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's red-light cameras screwing you again.Posted on January 9, 2017 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes"A careful review of Obama's major human rights decisions shows a mixed record. In fact, he has often treated human rights as a secondary interest - nice to support when the cost was not too high, but nothing like a top priority he championed."Posted on January 6, 2017 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTrolls, white people, presidents, democracy.Posted on January 5, 2017 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe greatest hits of retiring state Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago, natch).Posted on January 4, 2017 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHow not to write about transparency.Posted on January 3, 2017 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesA list to check twice.Posted on December 24, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm releases e-mails he denied existed, from account Tribune editor used.Posted on December 22, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBuilding a new high school in Englewood is really a way to close high schools in Englewood.Posted on December 21, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe show must go on - unless you're homeless.Posted on December 19, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesLouis Farrakhan, Donald Trump and the times that try our souls.Posted on December 18, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAll colleges are for profit.Posted on December 16, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFudge my school. Plus: Slick Willie Cochran.Posted on December 15, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAld. Willie Cochran, not the sharpest tool in Rahm's shed, indicted.Posted on December 14, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAn atheist who did God's work. Plus: Another Football Fatality, Rahm's Flavor Favor and The Utter Failure Of Humanity To Do Its Job.Posted on December 13, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOfficer Gamekeepers, Opa Whoa and Early Admission.Posted on December 12, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesCity of secrets.Posted on December 10, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS violates inspector-client privilege.Posted on December 8, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA year ago, it looked like Rahm might not survive.Posted on December 7, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCity, media, judge ruin food truck fun.Posted on December 6, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesI still believe in facts, but facts alone are not enough.Posted on December 4, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSomeone invented the blanket.Posted on December 2, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBlanket tomb.Posted on December 1, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDaley's (unlikely) deposition. Plus: Rahm's Restaurants.Posted on November 30, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTwo (mystery) guns and a cop.Posted on November 29, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEvery single Trump voter owns this.Posted on November 28, 2016 The [Thanksgiving 2016] PapersBy Steve RhodesFeaturing rhino penises, gummy cocks, dirty nails, greasy turkey anuses, long-acting birth control and Donald Trump.Posted on November 24, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSliding into despotism. Plus: Dan Webb's web & a suburban Illinois school bus company's crash record.Posted on November 23, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesToday in The Resistance.Posted on November 22, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesYou are not alone.Posted on November 21, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGoody bag.Posted on November 18, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLife during wartime.Posted on November 16, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNeo-Nazis in the White House.Posted on November 15, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBasically, if you're not an able-bodied white Christian heterosexual male, you have great cause to be scared out of your wits.Posted on November 11, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTwo encounters.Posted on November 9, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesElection Day Chicago: Logan Square Voting Fucked Up; Clarence Mudd, Sprinklicious; and inevitably, Su Nueva Lavanderia.Posted on November 8, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPaging Russia! We have an assignment for you.Posted on November 7, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHappenstance.Posted on November 3, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes"This can only end with maximum pain."Posted on November 2, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGood morning, Cleveland.Posted on November 1, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes"There isn't going to be room for us bums."Posted on October 31, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOff exploring the inner workings of Old Style. And the Cubs.Posted on October 28, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSmash-and-grab in Cleveland.Posted on October 27, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDispatches from clever Cleverland.Posted on October 26, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLying is a slippery slope.Posted on October 25, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFace value Cubs tickets deemed more unethical than slushy TIF funds and the existence of Ed Burke.Posted on October 24, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesRickettsville: Gentrifying the gentrified.Posted on October 22, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's secret Ebola zone.Posted on October 20, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTrump and Cubs pinatas.Posted on October 19, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCook County's neglected children. Plus: Deplorable Peter Roskam & Rahm's Budget Hall of Mirrors.Posted on October 18, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesIn bloom.Posted on October 16, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's staff gets Cost of Living With Rahm Adjustments.Posted on October 14, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTeenage Illinois black dude voting for Trump now famous. Plus: Naperville's ghost neighborhoods and Geofeedyatothecops.Posted on October 13, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMaking art, journalism and a living.Posted on October 12, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhy Chicago's kids are in a bad mood today.Posted on October 11, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe world's most interesting website.Posted on October 10, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBody camera bunk.Posted on October 6, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesScoundrels, scaliwags and the Cubs: Part 2.Posted on October 5, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe city council and Cubs tickets: A Chicago story.Posted on October 4, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesReminder: Rauner is with Trump.Posted on October 2, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhole Foods opens in Englewood.Posted on September 29, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWas Trump more effective in Monday night's debate than he's getting credit for?Posted on September 27, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesConAgra played Bruce Rauner like a dime-store fiddle.Posted on September 25, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's cop plan leads us back to where we already are.Posted on September 22, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWorking on it.Posted on September 21, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRoast Bears beef.Posted on September 20, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesForrest Claypool's merry auditors.Posted on September 19, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesMedia, Trump, Cubs, Riot Fest, Race, Sky.Posted on September 17, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesShout it from the rooftops.Posted on September 16, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWelcome, Duracell!Posted on September 15, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes#TrumpsHealth.Posted on September 14, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesUndocumented Education, Right-Sizing CPD, America's Best Writer, Corruption On A Curve and Debate Moderation.Posted on September 13, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPortion control.Posted on September 12, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesCook County's road trip. Plus: Heroin, We Have A Problem & Ferro Warning.Posted on September 10, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAll the action is on Twitter today - 24 hours of Donald Trump, Matt Lauer, Rahm Emanuel, John Kass, and the nation's shittiest journalists.Posted on September 8, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFootchases and funding.Posted on September 7, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm annexes city's elite.Posted on September 6, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesBody cams and Bobby Rush.Posted on September 3, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHow many CPS students have been lead poisoned? The city won't say.Posted on September 1, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA profession stubbornly gorges on cyanide day after day while the antidote sits on the shelf. Plus: Venetian Night self-immolates.Posted on August 31, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFired law clerk about to become Cook County judge.Posted on August 30, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe very Chicago story of Jewel's Bus Co.Posted on August 29, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesCorn con.Posted on August 28, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLori Lightfoot, The Guarantini & Braelin: The Next Speidi.Posted on August 25, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesForrest Claypool and Frank Clark are Today's Worst People In Chicago.Posted on August 24, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLeast amusing administrative law judge ever.Posted on August 23, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe police board on trial.Posted on August 22, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesFEMA has not yet arrived.Posted on August 20, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe gods of High Life.Posted on August 18, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRauner's ground game vs. the Bears' ground game.Posted on August 17, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAG to CPD: Hand over e-mails to CNN.Posted on August 16, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm: Crooked cops nor the system that creates them are to be ostracized.Posted on August 15, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesCorruption Night's first pitch. Plus: Chicago Foodies & Jamila Woods.Posted on August 13, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSun and alcohol.Posted on August 11, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNewspapers don't need defending. Plus: Thomas Friedman, Trump and the Just Joking People. And: Governor Baloneyvich and his uninformed media enablers.Posted on August 10, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBlago's prison band can't save him.Posted on August 9, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMore irregularity.Posted on August 8, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNothing but heroes.Posted on August 4, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCatching up.Posted on August 3, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFreedom (From Police) Square. Plus: Preckwinkle & the President.Posted on August 1, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTrumpism vs. Clintonism.Posted on July 27, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWe can lock up Hillary later. First, this.Posted on July 26, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesLike Michael Madigan, we need Hillary Clinton on that wall.Posted on July 23, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe gross malpractice of the city's law department.Posted on July 22, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDisappearing Homan Square and soft-pedaling an Illinois Trump delegate's racism.Posted on July 21, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe only one looking good at the RNC this week is Lucifer - and that includes Michelle Obama. Plus: Redaction Rahm and his invite-only Happy Hour.Posted on July 20, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRNC 2016: Come for the white supremacy, stay for Scott Baio's sparkling intellect.Posted on July 19, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe fundamental understandings of Ed Burke and Bruce Rauner.Posted on July 18, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesChicago staples.Posted on July 16, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Double Door, donuts and douchebags.Posted on July 15, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm waits for DOJ, which doesn't want him waiting.Posted on July 14, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFran Spielman denies Rahm buried the Laquan McDonald video.Posted on July 13, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChris Rock, Newt Gingrich, Ja'mal Green, and the truth about the Cubs.Posted on July 12, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesPresident of Chicago plastic cheese company devastating communities.Posted on July 9, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCommunity conspiring to prevent Rahm Emanuel from reforming Chicago police. News at 11.Posted on July 7, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA taste of Chicago's reptiles, painkillers, spongy snake cakes.Posted on July 6, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWho's (Best) Friend of the Parking Lot now?Posted on July 5, 2016 The [Fourth of July] Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesWe dronedPosted on July 2, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGubernatorial culture shock.Posted on June 27, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGuess which alderman is Today's Worst Person In Chicago.Posted on June 24, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe DOJ has contacted more than 400 residents who have made complaints or statements online or to a phone hotline, talked to members of 80 community organizations, visited all 22 police districts, and met with 150 police officers and 34 IPRA investigators.Posted on June 23, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWrigley Plaza coverage fouls off.Posted on June 22, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesVoters wanted a turnaround artist, not a Turnaround Agenda.Posted on June 21, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's most interesting website.Posted on June 20, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesCPD: Chicago Politics Department.Posted on June 18, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMayoral security cynicism.Posted on June 16, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIPRA's new catch phrase: "You're almost fired!"Posted on June 15, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJohn Kass doesn't recognize his own bark of bigotry.Posted on June 14, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesRauner: No matter the human cost, making it less expensive for companies to maim workers is worth it.Posted on June 11, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe principal narrative. Plus: Chicago underwater.Posted on June 9, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPrincipally speaking.Posted on June 8, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDonald Trump, Sammy Sosa, R. Kelly, Sturgill Simpson and Dairy Queen.Posted on June 7, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's missing Ps. Plus: Walstate & The Deporter-In-Chief.Posted on June 6, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesButterflies and bees.Posted on June 4, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNon-tronc edition: Job Sprawl & Cop Chop.Posted on June 3, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesUnpaid leave day.Posted on June 1, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCode of silence now valued at $2 million in Chicago.Posted on May 31, 2016 The [Memorial Day 2016] Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesAmerica 2016: Coke, Trump, Walgreens and watermelons.Posted on May 28, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMichael Ferro's latest (dis)honor. Plus: Moving Justin Dearborn, Patrick Soon-Shiong's Artificial Intelligence, and California Screaming.Posted on May 27, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMichael Ferro is a Golden Lion.Posted on May 26, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDumb Digital Doomsayers and Ferro's War.Posted on May 25, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe CueCat is both dead and alive.Posted on May 24, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesThe Parochial Potholes of TSA Theater. Plus: The Footpenis Building & Deb Mell Still Hasn't Visited The South And West Sides, Maybe Ever.Posted on May 21, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCity attorneys would admit to being the Zodiac Killers if it meant they could keep Rahm off the stand.Posted on May 20, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Fourth may be with us.Posted on May 19, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Residences at Trib Tower.Posted on May 18, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNeither Mel Reynolds nor Sinead O'Connor is funny. Plus: Wrong-way RickettsvillePosted on May 17, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe actual flight is now the shortest (and most comfortable!) part of flying.Posted on May 16, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesReporters' dumb question, Rahm's worse reply.Posted on May 14, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIs this the most interesting website in the world or what?Posted on May 12, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesHeadline wonder.Posted on May 7, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHead games, head taxes and tax heads.Posted on May 5, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNot gonna happen.Posted on May 4, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhy so few civilian complaints against police get investigated.Posted on May 3, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe donor-media class vs. the rest of us.Posted on May 2, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesObama's mic drop.Posted on May 1, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe wheels are coming off at Beachwood HQ.Posted on April 28, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesReaders lose.Posted on April 27, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesComing soon: Headlines like "610 Schools To Stay Open!"Posted on April 26, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago Today? Plus: Hastert History: DeLayed Gratification.Posted on April 25, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesTrib: Prince wholly derivative; rap a passing fad.Posted on April 23, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDig if you will a picture.Posted on April 22, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMixed grill.Posted on April 21, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAre the Blackhawks the Cardinals?Posted on April 20, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFull-time tuition for part-time faculty who work full-time. Plus: Lucas Mucus; Securing Airport Freedoms; and Ken Skunkin'.Posted on April 19, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEddie's Johnson's mission. Plus: Bring on the watermelons!Posted on April 18, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesRohingya refugees here. Plus: Introducing the Weekend Pizza, Hot Dog and Italian Beef Reports!Posted on April 16, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA bad omen for the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force report.Posted on April 15, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNot happening today.Posted on April 14, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesConfirmed: Homan Square is a black site housing the disappeared.Posted on April 13, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA Guardian transparency lawsuit has revealed the second person known to have died in police custody at Homan Square. And the discrepancies in the reports are stark.Posted on April 12, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMore Homan Square horrors the Chicago media will ignore.Posted on April 11, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesIntroducing Weekend Jukebox and Weekend Protest. Plus: DREAMERS in a dreamland; What is it about society that bothers you?; and the 1994 crime bill.Posted on April 9, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMossack Fonseca, y'all. Plus: About Denny Hastert - Who Knew What When?Posted on April 8, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Tribune breaks through Hastert's hush money, hush hearings.Posted on April 7, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFor example, we might ask what kind of world we live in, where we can pay for $7 million worth of state-of-the-art digital technology at the White Sox baseball stadium, but we can't pay for computers in our classrooms.Posted on April 6, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTop Kop, Rahm's Airport Run & Andrew Dice Trump.Posted on April 5, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe weekend wacky weather that wasn't. Plus: The Panama Papers.Posted on April 4, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesLightning strikes, maybe once, maybe twice.Posted on April 2, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesToday in Top Cop: Bring the broom.Posted on April 1, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHelp us, DOJ, you're our only hope.Posted on March 31, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHow not to regain trust in the CPD. Plus: Boeing's Bilious Baloney.Posted on March 30, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPolice chief blues deja vu.Posted on March 29, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's gonna Rahm.Posted on March 28, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesChicago team secretly plays in secret basketball tournament.Posted on March 26, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Week in Rahm. Plus: Chicago Newsroom; Trib Op-Ed vs. Snopes; Chicago [Hearts] Trump.Posted on March 25, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOn point.Posted on March 24, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHate-covering music festivals.Posted on March 23, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCleaning up Illinois.Posted on March 22, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRauner crosses the Trump rubicon.Posted on March 21, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesSexual assault case in the south suburbs a textbook example of how high schools are even less equipped to handle rape allegations than colleges.Posted on March 19, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHere we go again. #QuintonioLeGrierPosted on March 18, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDiffing Sanders & Radioactive Rahm.Posted on March 17, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe people have shouted.Posted on March 16, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGatekeepers, miracles, objectivity, narratives, scoundrels and Today's Worst Person In Chicago.Posted on March 15, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMichael Ferro, Donald Trump and stuff.Posted on March 14, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesUnforeseen circumstances, talking Trump and a bunch of other stuff.Posted on March 11, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHelp us, Judge Darrah, you're our only hope!Posted on March 10, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesObama kills FOIA reform. Plus: Trib Chatter.Posted on March 9, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesQuentin Young vs. Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. #UniteBluePosted on March 8, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTribune logic: Changing the makeup of school board members will lead to the status quo.Posted on March 7, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesWhat Trump told Oprah in 1988.Posted on March 5, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTrump vs. the Pritzkers revisited.Posted on March 4, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTwo-Party Partisan Problems (or Are We All Trumpettes Now?).Posted on March 2, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesQuestions for new Tribune publisher/editor Bruce Dold.Posted on March 2, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDear Hollywood: Chicago investigations that should be made into movies.Posted on March 1, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAlbert Einstein, Blair Hull and naked baseball players.Posted on February 29, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesSituation no win.Posted on February 27, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEverybody's look-ing for-ward to the week-end.Posted on February 26, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThat time when Rahm and his team pimped out Bettie Jones's family for public relations points.Posted on February 25, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTribune Publishing's new CEO is basically not allowed to speak truthfully about the company unless under oath.Posted on February 24, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMichael Ferro's footprints on the Sun-Times and handprints on the Tribune.Posted on February 22, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago high school graduate rates are bogus, man.Posted on February 22, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesThe Old Post Office is the new Block 37.Posted on February 20, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesKensington Griffin, The Big McCheese, Secord Still Sucks, Rahm's Better Late Than Never Policy, and The Accomplice.Posted on February 19, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBruce Rauner bumps into Bruce Dold at Springfield magic shop.Posted on February 18, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRauner in Wonderland: A second budget address before passing the first.Posted on February 17, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRe-engineering CPS finances, Chinese stock exchange, and Obama's immigration raids.Posted on February 16, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesI'm off ranking the presidents in order of war criminality.Posted on February 15, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesSigma Alpha Ick. Plus: Wrickettsville.Posted on February 13, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSpeaking of the CPD's lineups, files and batteries . . .Posted on February 12, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's big bad bond deal. Plus. the sounds of CPD's silence.Posted on February 11, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGawker exposes, again, the MSM's mendacious mindset. Plus: Bernie Bucks, Loosie Lunacy, Buncha Pussies, Middling Mat Latos, and Sears Slipping Away.Posted on February 10, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIllinois' three-strikes law is foul.Posted on February 9, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGenius Bar for urgent MacBook repairs.Posted on February 8, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesWelcome to Super Bowl weekend: Jilted taxpayers, broken-down players, warlords and Coldplay. Pass the chips!Posted on February 6, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMarkets shudder and a city weeps as Michael Ferro assumes control of Tribune Publishing.Posted on February 5, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBad news for Chicago journalism: It looks like we're stuck with Michael Ferro for a long, long time.Posted on February 4, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm hides the ball, not the gall.Posted on February 3, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAs defense lawyer, former Chicago police chief never saw an honest report.Posted on February 2, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesThe massive institutional failure that is the Chicago Police Department - aided and abetted a series of mayors and state's attorneys.Posted on January 30, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe governor continues to play chicken with human lives.Posted on January 29, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBruce Rauner's elephants and cornfields.Posted on January 28, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe state of the state is worse.Posted on January 27, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWho killed Quintonio LeGrier? You and me. Plus: Rauner's Ruinous Rap.Posted on January 26, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIf you do your reporting deeply enough, you can write/speak with authority - that's objectivity, because the facts are incontrovertible.Posted on January 25, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesGamer Don Rumsfeld & Flint's Chicago EPA Administrator.Posted on January 24, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRolling it over into the weekend.Posted on January 22, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBlow your cover.Posted on January 21, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago Rauner Schools.Posted on January 20, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesToday's Worst Meta-Person In Chicago.Posted on January 19, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhere the Trib stood on MLK.Posted on January 18, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesCedrick Chatman, an iPhone box and Pat Camden.Posted on January 16, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago police trophies. Plus: City treasurer two-times MLK breakfasts.Posted on January 15, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Central Committees Foxxy Lady, Generally Inspecting The City Council and Twitter Hates Me.Posted on January 14, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm doing MLK breakfast alone? Losing black prop pastors faster than Jimmy John's delivers. Plus: CPD's systems fail and today's Tribune hate-read.Posted on January 12, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBruce Rauner has a list - and a girlfriend in Canada.Posted on January 12, 2016 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesBarack Trump.Posted on January 9, 2016 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe devil's advocate, IPRA and the devil.Posted on January 8, 2016 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPodcast programming.Posted on January 7, 2016 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm: What we've just seen is not possible.Posted on January 6, 2016 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChock full of non-Papers.Posted on January 5, 2016 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEven Chicago's integration is racist.Posted on January 4, 2016 The [Christmas 2015 - New Year's 2016] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe King, Jesus, a bag of dicks and Lovie Smith.Posted on December 24, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLike the Beastie boys said, it's (dash-cam) sabotage.Posted on December 23, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Beachwood Radio Hour is back - X2!Posted on December 22, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTrumped up poll.Posted on December 21, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesChi-Town Rising renamed Taste of Privatized Chicago.Posted on December 19, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Cubs, the Cadillac Tax and the Code of Silence.Posted on December 17, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Homan Square-Laquan McDonald axis.Posted on December 16, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe top row of letters on my keyboard have become as reliable as Pat Camden's statements at crime scenes.Posted on December 15, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe judge was the best friend of Garry McCarthy's wife.Posted on December 14, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesSchemer has a Field day; Chicago puppets do not.Posted on December 12, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhen you've lost Ronnie Woo-Woo, you've lost the city.Posted on December 10, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe rubber stamp city council was misled.Posted on December 9, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMore cop stuff to come.Posted on December 8, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm wears the sweater and the jacket.Posted on December 7, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesRahm Emanuel is on the clock.Posted on December 5, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhile I continue to burrow into the fast-moving events surrounding the Laquan McDonald case, here are some additional posts to divert your attention.Posted on December 3, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFiring McCarthy: Right move, wrong reason.Posted on December 2, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhat you may have missed over the long holiday weekend.Posted on November 30, 2015 The Weekend Desk Report16 shots, hell no you can't shop.Posted on November 28, 2015 The [Thanksgiving 2015] PapersBy Steve RhodesMalcolm London explains it all.Posted on November 26, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's booty call.Posted on November 24, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm unwittingly makes another argument for an elected school board.Posted on November 23, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesLook who owns the world's largest ketchup bottle now.Posted on November 21, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMemo to the governor: Indiana is not a model state. #SyrianRefugeesPosted on November 19, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhy I want to hug a woman in a hijab today.Posted on November 18, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesYou have a better chance of winning the Illinois Lottery - and getting paid - than a terrorist has of slipping into the United States posing as a refugee.Posted on November 17, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm Emanuel's shifty CPS-CPD shell game.Posted on November 16, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesTwo paths to go by, but in the long run . . .Posted on November 14, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCity council a no-drone zone.Posted on November 13, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIllinois' link to nationwide attorney-client surveillance scandal.Posted on November 12, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago gets tough on non-existent attacks on military personnel.Posted on November 11, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe governor, in effect, has just compromised with himself. Plus: Vetting Ventra, Paper City & The Suneiform-Times.Posted on November 10, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOutrage everywhere. Plus: CTA's Bus Boo-Boo; Rauner's Golden Fucking Rule; Pushing Ventra; and Paper Principals.Posted on November 9, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesIn Rauner's world, Illinois cannot afford to provide services to the elderly and disabled until it enacts term limits.Posted on November 7, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSay it ain't so, GI Joe. Plus: UNO In Ruino & CPD's Zack Thwack.Posted on November 6, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMedia blames everyone but themselves for the GI Joe narrative.Posted on November 5, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNice voir dire.Posted on November 3, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesCode Red: The most substandard person in the state is the governor.Posted on October 31, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesScary creatures: Bob Fioretti, Dennis Hastert, Obamacare.Posted on October 30, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA city council property tax hike notebook featuring some of the planet's worst aldermen.Posted on October 29, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesKeeping Rahm budget coverage weird.Posted on October 28, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDaley's dips, Rahm's lips.Posted on October 27, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe connection between Peoples Gas and SUPES.Posted on October 26, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesAlternate media universes.Posted on October 24, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBeachghazi.Posted on October 23, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHey, CTA, call me sometime when you have no class.Posted on October 22, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSnow removal machine.Posted on October 21, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesO'Hare's "Fly Quiet" program might as well not exist. Plus: Cubs Curse Finally Decoded!Posted on October 20, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMore breaking Homan Square news for the Chicago media to deny.Posted on October 19, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesNew Beachwood Cubs music video! Plus: The Hunt for MLB McMarketing.Posted on October 17, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDorothy Brown is going down. Plus: The real Dennis Hastert.Posted on October 16, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDorothy Brown on deck.Posted on October 15, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBarbara Byrd-Bennett not fondly remembered in Cleveland.Posted on October 14, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWorking against the clampdown.Posted on October 13, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSelective e-mail releases show SUPES scandal is merely a political problem to Rahm, not a learning moment.Posted on October 12, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesRahm's lame bet rejected. Plus: Meet the Chicago-area man who has upended the race for U.S. Speaker of the House.Posted on October 10, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBarbara Byrd-Bennett inscribes herself into the Chicago Testament.Posted on October 9, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesKeywords: Bruce Springsteen, Deacon Blues, Homi Bhabha, Kevin Coval, Mark Grace, Rod Beck, Sarah From The Real World Miami, The Chicago Board of Exchange, The Ricketts', Wicker Park, Wrigley Field.Posted on October 8, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSchrodinger's Medicaid. Plus: Bro, Cubs, Bro.Posted on October 7, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe real case against Garry McCarthy - and it's not about gang violence.Posted on October 6, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS: Chicago Private Schools.Posted on October 5, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesAsk yourself why modern newspaper sports sections don't look like Grantland.Posted on October 3, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCorporate tax breaks don't work. Rahm caught fibbing again. The bystander president strikes again.Posted on October 2, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago welcomes a corporate criminal.Posted on October 1, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe calendars and e-mails of United Airlines, Bruce Rauner, Rahm Emanuel and Hillary Clinton.Posted on September 30, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIf Danny Solis or Mark Brown says your mother loves you, check it out.Posted on September 29, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS: Chicago Perpetrates Stupidity.Posted on September 28, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesRedmoon puts its shingles out.Posted on September 26, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesKane commentary coming.Posted on September 25, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesUber 311.Posted on September 24, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHas this really been the way we want to see rape cases reported?Posted on September 23, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhat it takes for a cop to get fired.Posted on September 22, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDay-to-day.Posted on September 21, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesThe Blackhawks have soiled themselves. Plus: Forrest Cesspool!Posted on September 19, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNew CPS cast, same CPS shitshow.Posted on September 18, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWith great regret considering the topics on my agenda, I have to attend to other business today.Posted on September 17, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFor those scoring at home, that leaves net jobs gained on today's items at 177 - and the biggest losers are blacks in North Lawndale, not whites in Schaumburg.Posted on September 16, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCrisis management is exhausting.Posted on September 15, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe $2.45 billion Bears are 0-1 and stealing our money.Posted on September 14, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve Rhodes9/12 Nation.Posted on September 12, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes9/11Posted on September 11, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's racist DUI checkpoints probably aren't about DUI.Posted on September 10, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOusted United Airlines CEO Jeffrey Smisek tries to remain in an upright, unindicted position.Posted on September 9, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSaint Forrest Sets An Example, Charter Barter & Going To An Eviscerated School. Plus: The Garbage Mayor.Posted on September 8, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesSegregation is no accident. Plus: From Israel to Illinois. And: Weekend BeachBook reads.Posted on September 6, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesYes! Yes! This is what it's all about.Posted on September 4, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWooly.Posted on September 3, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGrown men playing political games with children.Posted on September 2, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Rahm Emanuel Budget Hearing Trilogy: Episode 1.Posted on September 1, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAbout that goofy, cheesy Sun-Times Blago editorial.Posted on August 31, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesExclusive: When the corpse flower will bloom.Posted on August 29, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBullshit is everywhere.Posted on August 28, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDay-to-day.Posted on August 27, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe upside-down premise of the Trib's pension perk story.Posted on August 26, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEast Chicago-bound and down.Posted on August 25, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChuy's commission looking better and better.Posted on August 24, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesThe Chicago Vortex.Posted on August 22, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMichael Jordan's unrecognizable likeness.Posted on August 21, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhat Blago could learn from Redflex.Posted on August 20, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Tribune is only sorry that everybody on the planet is reading that hurricane column wrong.Posted on August 18, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Obama Library scam.Posted on August 18, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDrives and showers.Posted on August 17, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHurricane McQueary.Posted on August 14, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWeep for Woodlawn.Posted on August 13, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMcRib, Toby Keith, Arlington Park and quite possibly much more!Posted on August 12, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMore Patrick Kane inanity. Plus: Governor Raunervich, CPS's Special Budget, and College Kops.Posted on August 11, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesReporting on the Patrick Kane investigation is already off the rails.Posted on August 10, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesEverything returns Monday.Posted on August 9, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA bunch of things happening at once.Posted on August 6, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBlackhawks laughing all the way to the bank. Plus: Rubber Stamps, Pension Pickups, Lies & Politics At Our CPS.Posted on August 5, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBlackhawks net $10 million from the city.Posted on August 4, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGuidance.Posted on August 3, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesLollapalooza up your schnozzle.Posted on August 1, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRocky nudges, Rahm winks.Posted on July 31, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRocky Wirtz should be ashamed of himself.Posted on July 30, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhat Chicago Ald. Will Burns and the Hammond police have in common.Posted on July 29, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBlame Blago.Posted on July 28, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJournalism stories.Posted on July 27, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesMaking the Medill-Milwaukee mural.Posted on July 25, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOur incredible Infrastructure Trust. Plus: The sad saga of Pilgrim Baptist Church.Posted on July 24, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm names new interim schools chief. Plus: The State of United Airlines.Posted on July 23, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA buttload.Posted on July 21, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMeigs Avenue. Plus: CPD's no-snitch code.Posted on July 21, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJust what Rahm promised: More of the same.Posted on July 20, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesHeat, corn and cabals.Posted on July 18, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSaint Forrest.Posted on July 17, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNow Rahm wants to run CPS like the El.Posted on July 16, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS swaps spit. Plus: School Colors; Taste of Journalism; Antonio Brown P.S.Posted on July 15, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHello, Taste of Cleveland! Plus: CPS & El Chapo and Miming McCarthy.Posted on July 14, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWelcome to Chicago - You'll Have To File A FOIA For That*.Posted on July 13, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMe Time; Greece, The Musical; Mmmm, Ponderosa; Bubble Wrap Blasphemy; Grateful Road House.Posted on July 7, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesAmerican Beauty.Posted on July 4, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBang bang.Posted on July 3, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAffecting the classroom.Posted on July 2, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's mysterious pension payment. Plus: James Meeks pines for flash cards.Posted on July 1, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesD(ebt)-Day. Plus: Phillies disappear Cubs; Heinz disappears Kraft.Posted on June 30, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChoosing Chicago.Posted on June 29, 2015 The [Rainbow] Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesNino Knows Best. Plus: Wrong-Way Rahm, Nature Is Agnostic, Pride Ride, and The Nature of Change.Posted on June 27, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesParty!Posted on June 26, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRocky Mountain High. Plus: Sarah Palin is no REO.Posted on June 25, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesParty at Jr.'s. Plus: Toni Stroger, Accretive Accountability, and Fucking Golden.Posted on June 24, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDon't save Ferris. Plus: CPS Cash Credibility Crisis & Naive Nate Silver.Posted on June 23, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm wears the jacket for CPS. Plus: Mumford & Bums.Posted on June 22, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe greatest bar this world has known has ceased to exist.Posted on June 18, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThird-class rally in world-class city. Plus: Keep Your Hands Off Corey Crawford; Rick Telandersaurus; I Can't Listen To Chicago Sports Radio Anymore; Fire David Brooks; and Free Congressional Research Now!Posted on June 17, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThat's hockey, baby!Posted on June 16, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIn case of victory, break glass.Posted on June 15, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesGradRateGate continued. Plus: Mark Halperin is the worst.Posted on June 13, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS: Lieraq.Posted on June 11, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHastert's bail out. Plus: Millennial marketing monsters & the park district's Worst Person In Chicago.Posted on June 11, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLeaks & Lightning.Posted on June 10, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMore open than a 7-Eleven.Posted on June 9, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe truth about testilying. Plus: Blackhawks South & The War on Walgreens.Posted on June 8, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesThe surveillance president strikes again. Plus: The Blackhawks, Remix Chicago, The Preakness and the Lido Deck.Posted on June 6, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesExplore Minnesota!Posted on June 4, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Obama library perfectly represents the cynicism of our president and our mayor.Posted on June 3, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm elects school board, places bet.Posted on June 2, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSpringfield dinner show getting rave reviews.Posted on June 1, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesFlyovers and outsourced wars.Posted on May 30, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGathering string.Posted on May 29, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago even waived its security deposit when the NFL came to town.Posted on May 28, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS synergies.Posted on May 27, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS is a rogue nation.Posted on May 26, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesReminders.Posted on May 23, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMadigan's millionaire tax vs. Minnesota.Posted on May 22, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSUPES to nuts.Posted on May 21, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMcDonald's vs. The Media.Posted on May 20, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe longest prison term in the U.S. for someone wrongfully convicted. Plus: Illinois & Israel; The Andromeda Strain.Posted on May 19, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Tribune inaugurates its drama queen.Posted on May 18, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesNSA Blackmail, Zip Code Kids, Black Hole Homan, Ed Debevic's Tower and other discontents.Posted on May 16, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's faulty food safety.Posted on May 15, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHot road dogs, flying spiders, United exploits and other junk.Posted on May 14, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAll of Rahm's junk in all of the wrong places.Posted on May 13, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago lands presidential propaganda palace. Plus: Roadside Rahm.Posted on May 12, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSWTF SWAT. Plus: Oxy Poxy, Mail Call, Hyatt Housekeeping.Posted on May 11, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusBruce Almighty, Garry Rigged and Forrest Preserved.Posted on May 9, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPolice states and constitutions.Posted on May 8, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesStuff happens.Posted on May 7, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe shit hits the fans.Posted on May 6, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSeven percenters, giant eyeballs and Potbelly's new spokesman.Posted on May 5, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesStuff.Posted on May 4, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesObama's Chicago is history.Posted on May 2, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDraft Town.Posted on May 1, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWar president says violence is not the answer.Posted on April 30, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm and Rekia.Posted on April 29, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhen Chicago's whites rioted.Posted on April 28, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIllinois' French Revolution in reverse.Posted on April 27, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusAramark, Anita, Claypool, Rauner, Starbucks and Hermene.Posted on April 25, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFriday stuff.Posted on April 24, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRekia Boyd is just the latest stain on Anita Alvarez's terrible record.Posted on April 23, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRekia Boyd reaction: Bewilderment shifts from judge to prosecutors. Plus: What one of the defense attorneys tweeted at me.Posted on April 22, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesReading the Rekia Boyd ruling.Posted on April 21, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFine offerings!Posted on April 20, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesBarbara Byrd-Bennett is a symptom, not a cause.Posted on April 18, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRFP: The Ballad of Barbara Byrd-Bennett.Posted on April 17, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSUPES sandwich. Plus: Is CPD breaking the law by not releasing a dash-cam video?Posted on April 16, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Tribune continues to misfire on its Burge coverage. Plus: Ed Burke is half-right about strip clubs & Daft Town USA.Posted on April 15, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOdds and ends.Posted on April 14, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRichie and Rahm's Excellent O'Hare Adventure.Posted on April 13, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusPiss-Poor Starts, Ties That Binder, Loose Structural Change.Posted on April 11, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFlying the safety-impaired skies, whacking Walgreens workers & the smallness of the Ricketts family illustrated again.Posted on April 10, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOur permanent crisis.Posted on April 9, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe City of Magical Thinking.Posted on April 8, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesElection Day Notebook featuring Rahm's secret campaign, Mary Schmich's Pulitzer Prize-winning commentary and who I think is on The List.Posted on April 7, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's Chicago doesn't have a pot to piss in.Posted on April 6, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusChanging Indiana's heart - and Rahm's.Posted on April 4, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's lying secret government. Plus: Mediocre sports hacks, aldermanic bouncers and more!Posted on April 3, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRobert Rubin is with Rahm. Phil Ponce voted early. Chuy meets the son he never had.Posted on April 2, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFire Phil Ponce.Posted on April 1, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDebate prep.Posted on March 31, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesYou've never really seen it all in Chicago because money does wonders for cynics' imaginations.Posted on March 30, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesCPS's Flamin' Hot Cheetos are on fire.Posted on March 28, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHow we know Rahm lost last night's debate.Posted on March 27, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesObama's torturous consistency and other discontents.Posted on March 26, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRoad House, Rostenkowski and Royko.Posted on March 25, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTen for Tuesday, including Why Is Chuy So Happy?Posted on March 24, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMe vs. the Illinois Department of Revenue.Posted on March 23, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThe schemes, scams, hypocrisies and evasions that are killing satire in Illinois.Posted on March 21, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesObama library follies. Plus: America's most important Twitter timeline right now.Posted on March 20, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAmnesty to Rahm: Let us in to Homan. Plus: Rahm's brackets.Posted on March 19, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAaron Schock waves goodbye; lessons for everyone.Posted on March 18, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe day after a televised debate, the host channel should broadcast a definitive fact-check of what they broadcast the night before. That might even get more viewers than the original program.Posted on March 17, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTonight's predictable debate. Plus: Homan Squared.Posted on March 16, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusShamrock Shakedown Edition.Posted on March 14, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's neighborhoods. Plus: COD PR.Posted on March 13, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesInhuman behavior.Posted on March 12, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPaperwork, printers and proselytizers.Posted on March 11, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIt's not a cover-up, it's a feature. #HomanSquare #CarolMarinPosted on March 10, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm, Brian Williams, and Jays Cutler and Mariotti.Posted on March 9, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesBig Willie on the block.Posted on March 7, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMmm, squab.Posted on March 6, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJohn Conroy vs. the Chicago media. Again.Posted on March 5, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAnother day, another Guardian story about Homan. Eleven so far.Posted on March 4, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesYou should know better, Chuy. You grew up here. You're not supposed to sell-out until after getting elected. Plus: Rauner's Ex-Ministers.Posted on March 3, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLocal media complains about CPD lies and evasions, then gets beat by a reporter from Brooklyn and sides with CPD lies and evasions. Without asking a single question.Posted on March 2, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusMoody's, Mell and the Mayor.Posted on February 28, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHealth insurance terrorists strike Illinois; Rahm's bad bad landlords list.Posted on February 27, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhy Chuy will win as unknowingly revealed by the panic-mode Trib.Posted on February 26, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWide awake.Posted on February 25, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOur rigged, racist election.Posted on February 24, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOur fictional campaign.Posted on February 23, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusWe'd like to thank the Academy.Posted on February 21, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPatti Blagojevich is back! Bruce Rauner attempts murder! Barack Obama designates bullshit!Posted on February 20, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLate takes.Posted on February 19, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFact-checking Politico's article on Rahm and education. Plus: Rauner budget preview!Posted on February 17, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSame column I've written for eight years.Posted on February 17, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe discontents of journalism, politics and U2.Posted on February 16, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesBrought to you by mugs of Old Style and adults behaving badly.Posted on February 14, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesComing next: complicated feelings about David Carr.Posted on February 13, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOur mayor is held to lower standards than a Little League coach. Plus: The punditry has been trite and parochial; there are other kids involved too who don't live here.Posted on February 12, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOnce again, I wasn't watching the same mayoral debate as local reporters.Posted on February 11, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe real Rauner, the real Rahm, the real Rush.Posted on February 10, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRedeterminate this!Posted on February 9, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusIt happened again - you went to sleep in 2015 and woke up in 1920!Posted on February 7, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesI went downtown today to get fingerprinted.Posted on February 6, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThat wasn't a debate, it was a game show. Plus: The real state of the state.Posted on February 5, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDear Chicago: Stop whining about your fucking side streets. Grab a shovel and some neighbors and do it yourself. Christ.Posted on February 4, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA baby, a bozo, a jerk, a firebrand and a stiff - yup, that's Neil Steinberg alright.Posted on February 3, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe hullabaloo over Plow Tracker escapes me.Posted on February 1, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesThe Super Bowl Is A Circus On Mars. This Year's Super Bowl Is Peak NFL. Beyond the Square Pool: The Game, The Bets & The Depravity. Plus: All-In On The Seahawks, The Lies Of Roger Goodell and Katy Perry's Complete Maximum Evil.Posted on January 31, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBruce Rauner's private equity blueprint for Illinois. Plus: The Danny Davis Shitshow & Rahm's Trust Fund.Posted on January 30, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTwo candidates have bought their way into this race: Willie Wilson and Rahm Emanuel. Neither should be deemed credible.Posted on January 29, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm moderates debate.Posted on January 28, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes"And which one of you nice gentlemen is Dock Walls?"Posted on January 27, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesErnie Banks sure made a lot of white people feel better about themselves by never complaining. On the insidiousness of race.Posted on January 26, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusMayor Trendy spices up Super Bore Sunday.Posted on January 24, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFriday lineup.Posted on January 23, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe many civics lessons of Rahm Emanuel - with exhibits.Posted on January 21, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Mike Ditka Shitshow makes a clown of Bob Fioretti.Posted on January 21, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesU of C trauma and Rahm's Enron guy.Posted on January 20, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThe Top 10 Reasons Hiring John Fox Is Actually Kinda Cool.Posted on January 17, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIf the Obamas want to do what their foundation says, they'll choose UIC. If they want to assist a private institution in its bid to take over more public land and expand its elitist footprint, they'll choose U of C.Posted on January 16, 2015 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWho is Avis LaVelle?Posted on January 15, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesObama Library Follies and Today's Worst Person In Chicago.Posted on January 14, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesInauguration blues.Posted on January 13, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA peaceful transfer of power but a great disturbance in the Force.Posted on January 12, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesAllah made him funny. Plus: Save Sledding & Lashing Out At Lupe.Posted on January 10, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOn the recovery curve.Posted on January 9, 2015 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes#JeSuisCharliePosted on January 7, 2015 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHow Rahm Emanuel is both vulnerable and inevitable. Plus: Media Redlining; Cops vs. Civilians; and Convicted In Cook County.Posted on January 6, 2015 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSend whiskey.Posted on January 5, 2015 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusSpecial New Year's Would You Rather Edition.Posted on January 3, 2015 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesKaty Perry, North Korea, Cat Stevens, Jerry Angelo and David Orr.Posted on January 2, 2015 The [New Year's Day 2014] PapersBy Steve RhodesHappy nuke year!Posted on January 1, 2015 The [New Year's Eve 2014] PapersBy Steve RhodesSalty dogs.Posted on December 31, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCrucial new comments!Posted on December 30, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFiring on some cylinders. Plus: Today's Worst Mall in Illinois.Posted on December 29, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesThe year's most emblematic Chicago news story.Posted on December 27, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIncidental.Posted on December 26, 2014 The [Christmas Day 2014] PapersBy Steve RhodesSanta in Chicago.Posted on December 25, 2014 The [Christmas Eve 2014] PapersBy Steve RhodesXmas dinner conversation. Plus: The Illinois GOP's War on Christmas continues!Posted on December 24, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPeople I wish would just quit it this week.Posted on December 23, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEven in holiday mode, the Beachwood delivers.Posted on December 22, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesSanta's sweatshop.Posted on December 20, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesConfirmed: Rahm's red-light cameras are making the city more dangerous.Posted on December 19, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA few of my not-favorite things. Plus: Cuba and Clausen.Posted on December 18, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCutler and Cuba.Posted on December 17, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesExclusive: Rauner's famous musical act.Posted on December 16, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Illinois GOP's War on Christmas.Posted on December 15, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusIt's not every day you get to say this, but at least you're not Angelina Jolie.Posted on December 13, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesComptrolling. Plus: Sweet Home CPD.Posted on December 12, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHow media patsies enabled CIA torturers.Posted on December 11, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJohn Kass and the Tribune editorial board willfully unimpressed with the Torture Report shaking the world.Posted on December 10, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe CIA and Kirk Hinrich.Posted on December 8, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJohn Kass, Jay Rockefeller and Richard Posner ruining my day.Posted on December 8, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusCPS inflates its own grades.Posted on December 6, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWho polices the Chicago police? The police.Posted on December 5, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAmerican Tone Poem II.Posted on December 4, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesKids of aldermen and Medline execs take precedence over kids waiting four more years until their parents can earn $13 an hour.Posted on December 3, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHow about a mandatory minimum of reporting? Sun-Times's "Gun Shy" is Fact Shy.Posted on December 2, 2014 The [Thanksgiving 2014] PapersBy Steve RhodesPirate skulls and bones.Posted on November 26, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAmerican tone poem.Posted on November 25, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPedestrian signs a hit - with drivers running them over.Posted on November 24, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesForget the Packers; beat Lovie!Posted on November 22, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesYada, yada, in production.Posted on November 21, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSave the Screw, Nuke the Luke.Posted on November 20, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOut with the arena, in with the Lucas. Solves two problems. Plus: 10th District Zen, The U of I's Easter Basket, and Cook owes Chicago.Posted on November 19, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahmper Room.Posted on November 18, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes"We thought we had beat the machine. Ah, we didn't really know Jane Byrne."Posted on November 17, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesYou get the official beer you deserve.Posted on November 15, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm doubles down on his lying.Posted on November 14, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS's new school report cards are like Jay Cutler's contract.Posted on November 13, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesServing veterans in a frigid economy.Posted on November 12, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesI'm not sure the Bears' organizational failure is the worst one in town.Posted on November 11, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Bears make book.Posted on November 10, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesSomebody govern in poetry, please.Posted on November 8, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIt's coming, people.Posted on November 7, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBest post-election analysis anywhere is on the way.Posted on November 6, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCome to Jesus, Pat. By Thursday.Posted on November 5, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMock the vote.Posted on November 4, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesContrary to our local scolds, they came to watch Nik Wallenda live, not to watch him die.Posted on November 3, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusRahm Bilandic's War on Halloween.Posted on November 1, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEverything's in progress.Posted on October 31, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's scary elevators. Plus: Ald. Scareston.Posted on October 30, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRed-light Rebekah strikes again.Posted on October 29, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesKaren and Toni's guy. Plus: Rahm's Swabs & UNO's Silence.Posted on October 28, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMy profession is full of idiots.Posted on October 27, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesCPD swabbies on the CTA's deck.Posted on October 25, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBallin'.Posted on October 24, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Sun-Times saga.Posted on October 23, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Tribune's RahmNation. Plus: The city treasurer's love triangle.Posted on October 22, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Sun-Times's Great Suburban Sell-Off. Plus: When Quinn And Rauner Were Both Right; Bad Legacy Media Habits That Won't Die; and Why Rahm Might Be Right About Police OT.Posted on October 21, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesUsually Patrick Collins doesn't investigate you until after you're elected governor.Posted on October 20, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThe public-private adventures of Rahm and Rauner. Plus: Jeff Tweedy divvies up Taste and Divvy tastes like Tweedy.Posted on October 18, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDear God, someone please make Metra stop. Plus: Chicago is a zero-party town.Posted on October 17, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMetra: Still Ass-Backwards. Plus: Civic Federation confirms Bruce Rauner is a liar.Posted on October 16, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLite Govs, Forrest Fires and Red X Rahm.Posted on October 15, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMissing Karen Lewis already.Posted on October 14, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe city's red-light program embodies the administration of Rahm Emanuel.Posted on October 13, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesBut seriously, maybe the most awesome thing I've ever seen on local TV.Posted on October 11, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesUntil it all comes to fruition, please enjoy these fine features!Posted on October 10, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRed-Light Rahm's Yellow Lights & Another NRI Gun That Didn't Smoke.Posted on October 9, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAnother non-smoking gun. Plus: The Department of Aldermen Strikes Again; Our Torturous Mayor; and Jim Oberweis Clowns The South Side (Again).Posted on October 8, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBruce Rauner is a pathological liar, but the latest NBC Chicago/Sun-Times report is grossly unfair.Posted on October 7, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRobert Kuzas, Jesse White and Walter Burnett, you are Today's Worst People In Chicago.Posted on October 6, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesI would be more interested in both spectacles if a blindfolded Nik Wallenda walked across the Great Chicago Fire Festival.Posted on October 4, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBlind faith.Posted on October 3, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe CPD is spying on your cellphone. Plus: Olympic Bid Bills Still Coming Due and Rahm's Rigged Red-Light Refunds.Posted on October 2, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSun-Times shames suicidal man to sell papers. Jim Oberweis shames himself trying to buy black votes.Posted on October 1, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRaunocchio and Rahmocchio's phone follies.Posted on September 30, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOnside and off.Posted on September 29, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesIs here.Posted on September 27, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesProduction values.Posted on September 26, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesResourcing Rahm. Plus: Raunocchio Strikes Again & Pot vs. Gambling.Posted on September 25, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBruce Rauner: Just another empty Carhartt jacket.Posted on September 23, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAmerica's Real Fifth Column. Privileged Parent Power. Really Early, Really Often.Posted on September 22, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesVoters need to know if their potential governor is a monster.Posted on September 22, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusCardinals, commissioners and candidates.Posted on September 20, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe congestion that I get.Posted on September 19, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRauner Can't Handle The IDOT, That's Donne!, Signs Of Chicago's Bizarro Times, Obama's GOOPY Secrets, and more!Posted on September 18, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRascally Rahm and Bongripper Brucey.Posted on September 16, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDepression, corporal punishment and the band that won Riot Fest weekend.Posted on September 16, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago transit by Howard Jones.Posted on September 15, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesChicago's own Orange Revolution is on.Posted on September 13, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDCFS is a mess, as always. Kids' lives are in the balance.Posted on September 12, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCHA, CNN & CYA.Posted on September 11, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFact-check, please.Posted on September 10, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSanta Rauner is a bigger pander bear than Blago.Posted on September 9, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJust like the white-winged dove that Bruce Rauner just shot dead.Posted on September 8, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusBlue whales, blonde ambitions. Plus: Bruce Rauner's Trash Van.Posted on September 6, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe National Park Service vs. the Cubs.Posted on September 5, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Sun-Times's portal conceit, NBC Chicago's muddy makeup, Rahm's checkbook & IL's Medicaid mess.Posted on September 4, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesI've read stories like this forever and thought, "I don't see part-time job on that resume."Posted on September 3, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTurning out corporate-compliant zombies whose only value as humans is their economic output. Brought to you by Rahm Emanuel!Posted on September 2, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThe Rich continued to bank on the misery of the Poor this week, with almost total impunity. Happy Labor Day!Posted on August 30, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEither way, Nanci Koschman couldn't win.Posted on August 29, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNanci Koschman vs. Jane Byrne. Plus: Chicago Begetting, Discovering The Discover Card & Bruce Rauner's Freak Show Act.Posted on August 28, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDon't worry, it's all just a hologram.Posted on August 27, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRauner's Wranglers, Seinfeld Chicago and A Lost Magritte.Posted on August 26, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Case of Chicago's Most Notorious Missing File.Posted on August 25, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusRahm's parade route, the outrage in your face and the fourth law of thermodynamics.Posted on August 23, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFinally, Quinn and Rauner both tell the truth.Posted on August 22, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Twinkie as metaphor for America as a discount country whose branding has been destroyed by a death-spiral strategy of quick-fix liquidation. Or something.Posted on August 21, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm Emanuel may indeed be the murder mayor given his mental health policies.Posted on August 20, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOne more time: Judy Baar Topinka did it.Posted on August 19, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm has turned safe havens into scary hovels.Posted on August 18, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesEDM did not murder 112 Chicagoans last night.Posted on August 16, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm, Quinn and Kanye's DJ in trouble. Plus: Why Jerry Reinsdorf is a loser.Posted on August 15, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's only hope is to buy $10 million of popularity.Posted on August 14, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRed-light camera program crumbling. Plus: Losing The Lottery.Posted on August 13, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRobin Williams vs. Rahm Emanuel. Plus: Pat Dowell vs. Bud Billiken, McPier vs. FOIA, and Dick Durbin vs. the South Side.Posted on August 12, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDavid Vitale, God's Special Creature. Plus: Wanna Save Lives? Build Peotone. And: The new Council Wars.Posted on August 11, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesFeaturing This Weekend's Worst Person In Illinois.Posted on August 9, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHarold's Chicken Shacks are wack. So is the news.Posted on August 8, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesState Troopers Deployed By Emanuel, Quinn Campaigns.Posted on August 7, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDeep dives at the Chicago Marathon for the Obama's terrorist watchlist.Posted on August 6, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLaShawn Ford may be an angel, but coverage of this saga makes me squirm.Posted on August 5, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesI'll be ignoring the Tribune until I figure out how to read their new website.Posted on August 4, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusWool must be getting really expensive, because they're not even trying to pull it over your eyes anymore.Posted on August 2, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCall 911, blame Comcast.Posted on August 1, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA loophole closes around Pat O'Connor's neck.Posted on July 31, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLike radar love.Posted on July 30, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPhony minimum-wage politics.Posted on July 29, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHere's a poll: 100 percent of those reached said the Sun-Times has their head up their ass. Caveat: I paid for the poll.Posted on July 28, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusNo child left behind. Well, maybe some . . .Posted on July 26, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPost-production.Posted on July 25, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIncluding: Least Transparent Motherfucker Ever. Rauner's Estranged Relationship WIth The Truth. Daley Skates Again. Red Light Rahm Redux. Whose Chicago? Their Chicago. The James Cappleman Show.Posted on July 23, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMcCarthy's Mess. Club Med District. Slick Willie Burns. Pet Sounds. Red Light Rahm.Posted on July 23, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMayor Jet Noise. Plus: Rauner is the new Rutherford.Posted on July 22, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDaley's putrid police chiefs, CPD's cloudy crystal ball unit & Rahm's red-light racket.Posted on July 21, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusNelson Muntz Edition.Posted on July 19, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRed Light Rampage & CPS's Sordid Sorting.Posted on July 18, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBizarro Springfield & Topinka's Stinka.Posted on July 17, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm Emanuel, heartless. Toni Preckwinkle, gutless.Posted on July 16, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPoll Pablum. Leaving A Bad Taste. Good Cappy, Bad Cappy. Speaking Rahm.Posted on July 15, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe best laid plans of mice and men.Posted on July 14, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusBig Meat vs. Big Cupcake. Plus: The governor's race no one is winning.Posted on July 12, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFollow the money, not the bull. Featuring Bruce Rauner, Weber Grill, Rahm Emanuel, the Polar Vortex, Ty Warner and the Riverwalk.Posted on July 11, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMeet Today's Worst Employer In Chicago. Plus: The People v. CPS, Pat Quinn's Secret Prison Doctors, Potbelly's Plunges and much, much more!Posted on July 10, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS's Stark Arts Inequities. NEIU: Eminently Devious. Pat Quinn's Secret Prisons. And: The NSA, CIA, FBI And Obama Lied About Everything.Posted on July 9, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPat Quinn's Secret Prisons, Mike Madigan's Secrets Revealed, Illinois' Obamacare Secret and Illinois' Prep Sports Secrets.Posted on July 8, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCTA Screws Kids, Hookah Pookah, The Media Mayor, Crime Context and Cubs Moneyball Madness.Posted on July 7, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesThe Cubs Get Beaned, Quinnochio Gets Subpoeaned, Rauner Gets Hosed, and I Get Surveilled.Posted on July 5, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesField of Dreams, Pols on Parade, Dwitter, and Cheers for Coachella.Posted on July 4, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEven Montgomery Burns is embarrassed by Bruce Rauner.Posted on July 3, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNothing like questions about bonus pay to spark a ComEd executive's interest in attending to storm outages. Plus: There is no Human Fund.Posted on July 2, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWalgreens and waffles.Posted on July 1, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBeating up Benton and Brucey.Posted on June 30, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesRahm alienates electricity users. Durbin loses the plot.Posted on June 28, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEd Burke suddenly conflict-averse.Posted on June 27, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWe all know what happened, and we all know that the U.S. Secretary of Education let it happen.Posted on June 26, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesI felt a disturbance in the Force last night. It was as if the entire city had been told these weren't the droids we were looking for.Posted on June 25, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChelsea Clinton is just the worst. Plus: Secret stingrays and Obama the imperial assassinator.Posted on June 24, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNavy Pier Inc. Ish.Posted on June 23, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesI guess patronage really is over 'cause now we're importing bad guys based on their resumes. Plus: Trump L'oeil.Posted on June 21, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSoul of a New Chicago Machine, Samardzija vs. Cutler, and A Citgo Story.Posted on June 20, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNow we know why those horrendously noisy new flight paths that appeared over Chicago this year were such a surprise: The FAA lied.Posted on June 19, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA new Trump sign strategy? Plus: Pizza Hut Exec Betrays Roots and The Parking Meters Of St. Louis.Posted on June 18, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's Ladder, Brucey's Budget and The Cook County Murder Taskforce Lawyer Who Is Making Bank In The Sex Toy Industry.Posted on June 17, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIllinois Democrats vs. U.S. Republicans. Discuss.Posted on June 16, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusChicago shade.Posted on June 14, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTrumping the news.Posted on June 13, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRob Ford, Walgreens and the Illinois PR community meet at the corner of greedy and venal.Posted on June 12, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPat Quinn bounces a check that could cost him his job. Plus: Chicago can no longer afford the letter X.Posted on June 11, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS deemed ineligible.Posted on June 10, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThe rich and the truant in Chicago.Posted on June 7, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMichael Madigan's Magic Money Magnet. Plus: CPS FOIA Fails Part One Zillion & Insufferable Medill.Posted on June 5, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFallon and Koschman.Posted on June 4, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMoving is hell.Posted on June 3, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBlackhawks Xs & Os, Chicago Footwork in Denmark and the Pakistani national airline's mysterious Chicago office.Posted on June 2, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusObama High School's Boundary Issues, Divvy's Dollars, Ledge Lunacy and more.Posted on May 31, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBarry Manilow, Edward Snowden, Exene Cervenka, Barry Gibb and The Ledge.Posted on May 30, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWe here at Beachwood HQ are committed to doing less with more.Posted on May 29, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPot, astrology, lead paint and fake renovations.Posted on May 28, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMany hands make light work.Posted on May 27, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusSpecial Memorial Day Would-You-Rather Edition.Posted on May 24, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCanadian coat fires, Skokie giraffes, Panda Bear & Pelican, and the hippest trips through the city and around the globe.Posted on May 23, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSteve Albini, Gay Steelworkers, Duncan Hines, Adam Carolla, Jeff Samardzija, Lupe Fiasco, Pete Ricketts, Jesse Jackson Jr., Pat Sajak, Scott Waguespack, Hash Brownies and Brent Seabrook.Posted on May 22, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRed-light camera smoking gun found in Virginia. Plus: Smoking gun found (again) in White House; Arne Duncan's Disconnect & The Tribune In Denial.Posted on May 21, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe work of nations - and Olympic committees and high school athletic associations. Plus: Lynn Sweet played for a sucker and Cook County's rogue lobbyists.Posted on May 20, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm Emanuel: Alienating Chicago one constituency at a time. Plus: Rahm's Loophole Alliance & IHSA's inequities.Posted on May 19, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesThe Beachwood Radio Hour is the future.Posted on May 17, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAre Illinois Democrats even capable of self-loathing anymore?Posted on May 16, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRed-light camera fixer linked to Daley, Madigan and Emanuel.Posted on May 15, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCulture of misinformation.Posted on May 14, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTransparent, generous and accessible; if you're Chicago-based with a health-access angle, you need to know about them.Posted on May 13, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHighways in Rahm's skies.Posted on May 12, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusAre the 2016 Olympics coming to Chicago after all?Posted on May 10, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDownbound Dorothy Brown.Posted on May 9, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesQuinn's debacle splashes mud on Rahm.Posted on May 8, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe problems and politics of Pat Quinn's Neighborhood Recovery Initiative.Posted on May 7, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesReminder: Obama is black. Plus: Dorothy Brown, Dream Catcher.Posted on May 6, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusOnly in Chicago can you tighten the noose by making the Loop bigger. Plus: Derby Odds, Bloated Corpses, Rob Ford and Schaumburg.Posted on May 3, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAfter 100 years doing business in Chicago, clout-heavy McHugh Construction discovers minority contracting fraud.Posted on May 2, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes"A super-stealth parliamentary maneuver literally when nobody was looking."Posted on May 1, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Daily Show Chicago.Posted on April 30, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPatti Blagojevich is back in the most perfect way possible. Plus: Our Hinky Universities.Posted on April 29, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's racially selective high schools. Plus: The New Jordan Rules & Surveillance City.Posted on April 28, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesPleading Pat Quinn, United Airlines Values & Comptroll This!Posted on April 26, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesL-I-V-I-N.Posted on April 25, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe real secret sauce for schools. Plus: Bill Daley, God's Special Creature.Posted on April 24, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesUndeniable.Posted on April 23, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's values.Posted on April 22, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe city's most coincidental law firm.Posted on April 21, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusMike Madigan finds a new way to do absolutely nothing wrong. Plus: Lindsay Lohan's sex list, Malaysian Flight 370 and importing oligarchs.Posted on April 19, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's receipts.Posted on April 18, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIllinois: Of your family, by your family, for your family.Posted on April 17, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTweetWood.Posted on April 16, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCops caught testilying - while FBI chief in town. Also: Vanecko flees jail & Fioretti challenges Rahm.Posted on April 15, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Truth About Chicago, Obama's Internet And Economics 101 From Crain's.Posted on April 14, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusSpecial Glass Boxes for Rahm, Rauner, Quinn, Metra and CPS.Posted on April 12, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's Tangled Train Set. Madigan's Millionaire Malarkey. Overlord Oberweis. LSC WTF.Posted on April 11, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS finds money - again - in the couch cushions.Posted on April 10, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesField trip.Posted on April 9, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPaul Vallas is bored and he's not even lieutenant governor yet.Posted on April 8, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe evidence is in (again): Charters are not smarter.Posted on April 7, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusMike "Thor" Madigan and High-Rise Rahm.Posted on April 5, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTIFs backfire, Metra's nuts and bolts, McCPS and Exelon's maniacal power trip.Posted on April 4, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's blitzkrieg, CPS's ditzkrieg and the alderman who was a spy.Posted on April 3, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMichael Madigan's Metra.Posted on April 2, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIn honor of April Fool's Day: the Cubs and the CIA.Posted on April 1, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm eats collard greens with black journalists. Plus: The Cubs, Walgreens & the Sun-Times whiff.Posted on March 31, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesWhite Sox bars and swizzle sticks.Posted on March 29, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBP, Obama and the Tribune Company double-down.Posted on March 28, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGrounds for Rahm's arrest. Plus: The Ricketts' Get Richer, Anne Burke's Secret Story, Kassking Rauner & Orwell's Ambulance Service.Posted on March 27, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesReporters in Quinn's toolbox. Plus: Garry McCarthy is just the worst.Posted on March 26, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTweeting Cardenas, Kirk's Shirk & Chicago's Sister Cities Act.Posted on March 25, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesExclusive 101.Posted on March 24, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusCPS Suspends Black Children, Fires Their Teachers. Plus: Bracket Busting and Divergent White People.Posted on March 22, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIn loco CPS.Posted on March 21, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLocal School Council War.Posted on March 20, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRoundup rodeo.Posted on March 19, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Digital Lab Delusion, Rahm's Pool Boys & The Luis Gutierrez Show.Posted on March 18, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe New York Times's odd take on our governor's race.Posted on March 17, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesPray for Jay Cutler's children. Plus: Cards Against Humanity, Piggly Wiggly and this year's special dye for the Chicago River.Posted on March 15, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Daley family's diplomatic immunity. Plus: MasterRahm.Posted on March 14, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIllinois Dixiecrats.Posted on March 13, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSchools without teachers.Posted on March 12, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMedia storytime. Plus: The first family of Cook County Democrats is racist.Posted on March 11, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDorothy Brown Cooked. Plus: Koschman Cover-Up Con't.Posted on March 10, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesChicagoland!Posted on March 8, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBillion-Dollar Baby.Posted on March 7, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesREM vs. Obama, Rahm vs. History, and Mrs. Englewood vs. Chicago.Posted on March 6, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTest Fest. Plus: The Soldier Field SRO.Posted on March 5, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSneed Reads, CPS Hood Winking, Ice Cream Man's Brain Freeze, Liquor Is Quicker and Calling On Cawley.Posted on March 4, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSwimmy Fallon, the Oscars and Billy Corgan.Posted on March 3, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusOur Official Winter Weather Prop Bets.Posted on March 1, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe GOP Follies.Posted on February 28, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPat Dowell's Pot, Obama's Lab, Chicago Stategate, The Boeing Boing and Fab Fraud.Posted on February 27, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTotal consciousness.Posted on February 26, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBeing Harold Ramis. Plus: 3D BS, Jody Weis Rewrites History and Boeing's Bad Attitude.Posted on February 25, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's ugly Monday Morning Police Chief. Plus: Shredding the evidence in Pilsen and how Toni Preckwinkle is part of the problem.Posted on February 24, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusWang Dang Sweet Fucking Hell.Posted on February 22, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNorthwestern testilies. Plus: The Hilton's Mel Reynolds Suite and Rauner's favorite jeans.Posted on February 21, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFallible doctors at the U of I. Plus: City Scofflaws, Warrior Games & Melzie Sneed.Posted on February 20, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPorn is the least interesting part of the Mel Reynolds story. Plus: Political Prison Poop.Posted on February 19, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Mysterious Missing Koschman File. Plus: Metra Marty, County Seat, Shirley You Can't Be Serious, The Illinois Department of Children, and Illinois' Fruit Belt.Posted on February 18, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe NSA snoops on a Chicago law firm. Plus: Dan Bumbleford, Mass Transit Madness, Lincoln Logroll and the inaugural Beachwood podcast.Posted on February 17, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesChicago-style science, pot schools and the Cubs' new excuse.Posted on February 15, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDan Rutherford is toast. Plus: Ice Cream Politics & Rent Revolution.Posted on February 14, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhat the media missed in the Obamacare report. Plus: Truth in Portraiture & Street Dumb Chicago.Posted on February 13, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHow can you tell when City Hall and CPS are lying? When their mouths are open. Plus: Rahm Gets A Rush and Medicaid Madness.Posted on February 12, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDarren O'Brien is Today's Worst Person In Chicago. Plus: Nyuk, Nyuk, Nayak.Posted on February 11, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Koschman cover-up worked.Posted on February 10, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusMob actions, Metra's mess and more Sochi madness.Posted on February 8, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEmma & Ike, together again. Plus: Our non-existent school safety task force. CPS's no-tolerance data fail. Illinois' corrupt fight club. And a real taste of Chicago.Posted on February 7, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's beat cops and borrowing.Posted on February 6, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDaley and Koschman.Posted on February 5, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAll eyes in the city upon today's release of the Koschman report. Plus: Pat Quinn planning post-primary pablum.Posted on February 4, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFact-checking Quinn's job claims, AP's reporting and the "recovery."Posted on February 3, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusMarkets gone wild as Hell freezes over.Posted on February 1, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesShenanigans in Springfield: Rahm wants the state to raise property taxes while Madigan wants the state to lower corporate taxes. Do the math.Posted on January 31, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe NSA's talking points are now classified. Plus: Rauneromics, Madigan Mike, Train In Vain and Moto Dodo.Posted on January 30, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCold closings and the #SOTU.Posted on January 29, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesObama's State of the Union media meme is memorable - because he's been using it for five years. Plus: Rauner Wrong On Reagan & NSA The Chicago Way.Posted on January 28, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago Swingers.Posted on January 27, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusYour literal guide to surviving Super Bore Sunday, literally.Posted on January 25, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGod refused to comment on this season's Republicans.Posted on January 24, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRed-light red flags and shocking the monkey mayor.Posted on January 23, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGuilty: Cardinals Cody, Bernardin, George and a man named Richard M. Daley.Posted on January 22, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS's magical thinking, dizzy Divvy and a taxicab non-confession.Posted on January 21, 2014 The [MLK Day 2014] PapersBy Steve RhodesKing vs. Chicago.Posted on January 20, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesOfficeMax trolls the dead, Gusto recalls its ham and a nun has a mystery baby.Posted on January 18, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMoving the Sun-Times, investigating Joe Berrios and boozing with Pat O'Connor.Posted on January 17, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's Justice League. Plus: Who is giving the Archdiocese advice?Posted on January 16, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBruce Rauner, Arne Duncan, Kurt Vonnegut, Old Style, Crane Kenney, Clark Cub, Edward Snowden, Walter Jacobson, Chicago PD and Tom Morello.Posted on January 15, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS's makeup test. Plus: Shawshanking Ty Warner and Ambrosio Medrano.Posted on January 14, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBruce Rauner's real campaign-ender. Plus: CPS's ghost students.Posted on January 13, 2014 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusAnagrams in the news.Posted on January 11, 2014 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSide Streets Saga, The Possible Non-Trial Of The Century, Blurred Poverty Lines and Governor Burns.Posted on January 10, 2014 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesKirk Dillard the real loser in the Bruce Rauner minimum wage fiasco. Plus: Dennis Rodman & Paul Vallas.Posted on January 9, 2014 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDaley's trash man won't go away. Plus: Democrats hate poor people too and dodgy doctor discipline.Posted on January 8, 2014 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's cold weather performance.Posted on January 7, 2014 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIt's not even fun to stay at the YMCA today.Posted on January 6, 2014 The [New Year's 2013] PapersBy Steve RhodesTurkey legs, alcohol, Play-Doh and Michael Bolton.Posted on December 31, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLou Lang's Loophole.Posted on December 30, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesThe Milkman Speedeth, Swine Come Hometh To Roost, Resting In McPeace, Graterheads, and The New Old Drake.Posted on December 28, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAtheist's money no good in Chicago suburbs. Plus: Getaway City & Cluster Suck.Posted on December 27, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhat the Boston Marathon bombing really teaches us.Posted on December 26, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChristians, atheists, jailhouse preachers, awkward reindeer, pardons and news dumps, Cubs, Bears, Venus Flytrap, Joe Girardi, Josh McCown and Butter Stamos.Posted on December 25, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhat Jesus Wouldn't Do. Plus: Empty Building Task Forces, Safe Fish Passage, Infrastructure Bust, Lakeview Buzzill, GOP Tax Dumps and Beatbox This!Posted on December 24, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm at home in China. Plus: ACA sticker shock, pinball press and the return game.Posted on December 23, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThe 10% solution.Posted on December 21, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPost-party posts.Posted on December 20, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBurt Natarus, Jennifer Hudson, Brent Seabrook, The Gold Coast Madam, Barrett Brown, Smokin' Jay Cutler, Elmer Scheid, The California Clipper and Roelly "The Beast" Winklaar.Posted on December 19, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRape kits finally tested. Plus: CPS moving & shaking.Posted on December 18, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIffy.Posted on December 17, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesToday's CPS WTF, Comptrolling Rahm, Groupon's Blooper & Contracting O'Hare.Posted on December 16, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesMonkeys in space, yahoos on Earth.Posted on December 14, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS Movers Misunderestimated, Billy Goat Block Bust and Shilling Shiller.Posted on December 13, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS: Chicago Public Shells. Plus: FOIAing Karen Yarbrough & Amazon's Dopey Drones.Posted on December 12, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTorture not "harmless error" after all. Plus: Pension richness.Posted on December 11, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOwl City, CTA PU, Rahm Breaks Parking Promise, Sysco Sucks.Posted on December 10, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMany of us believe in second, third and even fourth chances, but 25?Posted on December 9, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusWho knew Sebelius was Finnish for Claypool?Posted on December 7, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe moral arc of the universe doesn't bend on its own; somebody has to do the bending. Plus: Wrangling Rangel, Vetting Vanecko and New Blue Hooey.Posted on December 6, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCourting Madigan.Posted on December 5, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Amer Ahmad E-Mails.Posted on December 4, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Trash Man Cometh . . . Back. Plus: Pension Piffle.Posted on December 3, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIn Trestman I still trust.Posted on December 2, 2013 The [Thanksgiving 2013] PapersBy Steve RhodesTurkey shots.Posted on November 28, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesVanecko defense team goes nuclear.Posted on November 27, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRauner's money, Illinois loyalty.Posted on November 26, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChildren's Fund Follies, Free Passes and Honeymoons.Posted on November 25, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesVentra on track! Plus: The Chicago Toy & Game Fair, Derrick Rose's Other Knee and The Feminine Mystique at 50.Posted on November 23, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesVentra, the Cubs, McDonald's, Reinsdorf, Oprah and a city that can't handle the truth.Posted on November 22, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe incredible claim behind an attack on food stamps.Posted on November 21, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesExorcising Chicago.Posted on November 20, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm Costanza.Posted on November 19, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMavericks.Posted on November 18, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusDivvy dollars, Charbucks and the magical new 2nd Ward.Posted on November 16, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesVentra makes mugs of us all.Posted on November 15, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSpies R USA. Today's Worst Witnesses And Worst Judges In Chicago. Daley The Artful Dodger.Posted on November 14, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe NSA's Search Engine, All-American Airlines and Name That Real Estate Merger.Posted on November 13, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's feelings named most tender. The Sam Hurd saga. Noisy sex. The Boeing affair. Crony State University. And more!Posted on November 12, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesStatewide shenaniganery.Posted on November 11, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusOf Roaches and RahmArts.Posted on November 9, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTax cheats and the infrastructure beat.Posted on November 8, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm defines debacle; Cubs exemplify it.Posted on November 7, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCharlie Trotter, Rob Ford, Gay Illinois and how Minneapolis does democracy way better than Chicago.Posted on November 6, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIs there a quarterback controversy in Chicago? Plus: The truth about Millennium Park and how Chicago police ask black people for their papers.Posted on November 5, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJesse Jackson Jr. vs. Jamie Dimon. Yusef Jackson vs. Budweiser. Cook County Jail vs. CPS. Chicago lawyer vs. tax code.Posted on November 4, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThe Divvy Split, the Undead Milkman and a new round of Would You Rather?Posted on November 2, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's winningest lawyer and losingest news site.Posted on November 1, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNeither Daley nor Vanecko was charged with any wrongdoing.Posted on October 31, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPowerline: The NSA, the Mekons, Rahm, New Zealand and CNN.Posted on October 30, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA Chicago fairy tale told in Boston. The elitist insider divide of the NSA scandal. The media's short memory.Posted on October 29, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS now offering classes in bathroom stalls.Posted on October 28, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesString Cheese Incidents, Krokodil, Patsy Sneed, Neko Case, He Is Division Street, and Chicago's Ultimate Metallica Tribute Band.Posted on October 26, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe NSA's world dominance. Obamacare on a dare. And the Cubs, Michael Jordan and Jesse Jackson Jr. make house calls.Posted on October 25, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's budget bull.Posted on October 24, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesReassessing Snowden. Maya Angelou Turns On Obama. JFK Overdrive.Posted on October 23, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Lois Scott Network. Plus: Gump Claypool, Robbin' Robbins, Kristin Cavallari and Today's Worst Person in Chicago.Posted on October 22, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJay Cutler's groin and Red Roof Rutherford.Posted on October 21, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusBlue ribbons to the CTA, the RTA and Penny Pritzker.Posted on October 19, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe politics and profit of our anti-public transit system.Posted on October 18, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA minimum of bullshit is apparently mandatory.Posted on October 17, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHow mandatory minimum supporters are like global warming deniers.Posted on October 16, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWorking on it.Posted on October 15, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS as Rico Suave. Plus: The USX Factor & Ice, Ice, Baby.Posted on October 14, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesCasey Urlacher, a Gold Coast Poltergeist, Mr. Slate's South Suburban Adventure & Krokodil Rock.Posted on October 12, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Wrong-Way Rickettses. Plus: Unsealing Vanecko, Insufferable CPS Lawyers and the Chicago Housewares Authority.Posted on October 10, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSecret government work.Posted on October 10, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFormer CBOT chairman Patrick Arbor is God's special creature.Posted on October 9, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Rahm & Ed & Michael & John & Anita Show.Posted on October 8, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDouble dipwits.Posted on October 7, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusWould You Rather: Special Shutdown Edition.Posted on October 5, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGhosts, hosts, spies and lies.Posted on October 4, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHow Illinois is like the Cubs.Posted on October 3, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBeanie Babies, Looney Tunes, Chicago Exports & Disliking Ike.Posted on October 2, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGhost shutdown.Posted on October 1, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesScrubs, Cubs and flubs.Posted on September 30, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusUncle McFester's Magic Sequester. Plus: Rahm's plazas. And: Illiana wants you.Posted on September 28, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCentromatic for the people.Posted on September 27, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAmerican exceptionalism and exceptional Chicago.Posted on September 26, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesR.J. Vanecko will never see the inside of a courtroom. Plus: The Big Hog With The Little Nuts. And The Chicago Board of Political Education.Posted on September 25, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFootloose.Posted on September 24, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIn and out, back and forth.Posted on September 23, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusFood stamps, rubber stamps and rubber plants.Posted on September 21, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA park that is anything but a playground.Posted on September 20, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's no-bid, revolving door comptroller's office.Posted on September 19, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBeanie Baby Bust, Rosebud's Racism and Wesley Wiillis's Joyrides.Posted on September 18, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAll about Bill.Posted on September 17, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIt's not just the rich getting richer, it's the richest. Plus: Rahm's Mystery School and Comptroller Chaos.Posted on September 16, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesBosses, birdies, bogeys and Brand.Posted on September 14, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Cook County Jail vs. Walmart.Posted on September 13, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's Brazier burger, CPS's toy fans & the city council's new windows.Posted on September 12, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA scandal of historic proportions.Posted on September 11, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIt's getting really chilly in America.Posted on September 10, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's latest "reformer."Posted on September 9, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThe Old Style of politics depends on who your Bud is.Posted on September 7, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago Cornholes, Doodles, Seals and Sharks.Posted on September 6, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSyria, Whole Foods and Rahm's X.Posted on September 5, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahmony Snicket's Whole Paycheck.Posted on September 4, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTen for Tuesday.Posted on September 3, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusCharlie Trotter vs. Bucky Badger.Posted on August 31, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesI wouldn't say city CFO Lois Scott is exactly being fit for the jacket on this one, but clearly her business dealings deserve more scrutiny.Posted on August 30, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe awesome authoritarianism of the Chicago Board of Education.Posted on August 29, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahmnation, Walgreeds & the March on Wall Street.Posted on August 28, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSick day.Posted on August 27, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFirst day of school, but just another day of CPS being shady.Posted on August 26, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusTest prep for Rahm's Chicago.Posted on August 24, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPat Quinn went to Germany and all he got was a lousy 40 jobs.Posted on August 23, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS's Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Plus: Beer Run Chicago!Posted on August 22, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIt not only can happen here, it is happening here.Posted on August 21, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe saga of Rahm's comptroller.Posted on August 20, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesColumn unlikely.Posted on August 19, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesRahm launches raid, Quinn attacks puppies, Cook County tastes gross.Posted on August 17, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesComptrolling the fuck out of Chicago.Posted on August 16, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMore Metra Board Games and Rahm's Fare Hike Fiasco.Posted on August 15, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesXeroxing Chicago and Rahm's scratch.Posted on August 14, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAway on business.Posted on August 13, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's need for speed cameras, video poker chumps and CPS's passage play.Posted on August 12, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusWills, ways and means.Posted on August 10, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPresident's pal not in the clear. Plus: Being Bill Daley.Posted on August 9, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPresident's pal leaves dirty trail. Plus, Rahm's appearance management.Posted on August 8, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTrotter, Rush, Davis and Mugabe.Posted on August 7, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhere the bullshit runs.Posted on August 6, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOur secret police are even secreter than we thought. Plus: UIC's vice chancellor of vice and Illinois' Pac Man.Posted on August 5, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusCockroaches and the CTA.Posted on August 3, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesManning, Snowden and you.Posted on August 2, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPot, Lottery, Nickelback, Daley's Girlfriend, Rahm's Budget Movie, The Grandstand Governor, Obama's Double Taps and More Manning Malpractice.Posted on August 1, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWho knew that when Barack Obama promised the most transparent administration ever he was talking about our transparency and not his?Posted on July 31, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThank Bradley.Posted on July 30, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPat Quinn's finishing school. Plus, Mike Madigan's Metra and Tom Cross's courage.Posted on July 29, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusSecond City, Third-World Country.Posted on July 27, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThis is not America. Oh wait, it is.Posted on July 26, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTicks and hacks.Posted on July 25, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWorking on it.Posted on July 24, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesUnited Airlines, Alfonso Soriano, The Royal Baby, Joe Moore, Metra, Bill Daley and Stephanie Izard.Posted on July 23, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSwagger like us.Posted on July 22, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusDetroit and Chicago: Broke and broken.Posted on July 20, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS in a meltdown.Posted on July 19, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesYeah, they said it.Posted on July 18, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWe're all just at-will citizens.Posted on July 17, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWorst. Father. Ever.Posted on July 16, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Burkes and the Banks. Plus: Jenny McCarthy and Kirk Dillard.Posted on July 15, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusMega Creep.Posted on July 13, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe further quantum physics of CPS's Central Office. Plus: The Mells Smell.Posted on July 12, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMetra's Meltdown. Plus: Rats, robots and RiRi.Posted on July 11, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Springfield clown show, the Tribune's "for sale" sign, and the Metra's dog fight.Posted on July 10, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's Trust Is A Bust.Posted on July 9, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesStretched thin.Posted on July 8, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesSecret court, secret spying, secret government.Posted on July 7, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTurnkey tyranny, American exceptionalism and fireworks by Usher.Posted on July 5, 2013 The [Fourth of July] PapersBy Steve RhodesMeats and unicycles.Posted on July 4, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe war president.Posted on July 3, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBill Daley vs. Pat Quinn, Juan Rangel vs. Dr. Evil, Jimmy Buffett vs. God.Posted on July 2, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesUNO's fireworks, the Park District's parrotheads, Hoosier Hosers and Star Bores.Posted on July 1, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesRush and red squads.Posted on June 29, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAbout that parade. Plus: Mark Kirk's impaired vision.Posted on June 28, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOur one-dimensional city council.Posted on June 27, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's excuses and a CPS time capsule.Posted on June 26, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBlackhawks, bros, Bolland, Belushi.Posted on June 25, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSnowden Was Here, The President's Pants, McKinsey 4 Kids, Rahm's Sacks, BP's BS & Handball Hardball.Posted on June 24, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusPaula Deen, Jeffrey Skilling and Chicago 2024.Posted on June 22, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHacks to the Max.Posted on June 21, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS has just issued the latest in a string of bald-faced lies or there is an unconscionable game afoot.Posted on June 20, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMichael Hastings vs. Rahm Emanuel.Posted on June 19, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCell towers and civil liberties.Posted on June 18, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOn the make with Elzie Higginbottom.Posted on June 17, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusSTFU.Posted on June 15, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS officials should no longer be allowed to speak without being strapped to a polygraph.Posted on June 14, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWithin your reach.Posted on June 13, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTales from the encrypted.Posted on June 12, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Barbara Byrd-Bennett Show, with Bill Daley opening.Posted on June 11, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWho's traiting who?Posted on June 10, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesThe NSA, the Pope, the Jacksons and our governor.Posted on June 8, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHas any figure that's come out of CPS in the last two years not been inflated, deflated, massaged, spun, shaded, invented, fudged or conjured out of thin air?Posted on June 7, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRoseland reprieve, wet debt and Billy Daley's latest tease.Posted on June 6, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFailures to communicate.Posted on June 5, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSears vs. Roseland Hospital.Posted on June 4, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesA tale of two states.Posted on June 1, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA new CPS problem. Plus: Chicago is unemployed and scrambled.Posted on May 31, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTime's Rahm wankery.Posted on May 30, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAnother day, another false claim by CPS and Rahm Emanuel.Posted on May 29, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesUNO's success is no failure at all.Posted on May 28, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusBeaches and bums.Posted on May 25, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMeter Madness, Money & Mara.Posted on May 24, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMy city of ruins.Posted on May 23, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesD-day.Posted on May 22, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSo far.Posted on May 21, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFor now.Posted on May 20, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusTruth, dares and consequences.Posted on May 18, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS selling more whoppers than Burger King.Posted on May 17, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTrick question.Posted on May 16, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMagic slots, fun with roads, Donald Trump and Rachel Schteir.Posted on May 15, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Bush-Obama road movie: Dumb & Worse.Posted on May 14, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesUNO is a Wall Street play. Get it?Posted on May 13, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusWorkers unite, Emanuel divides.Posted on May 11, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesParking Meters 2.0: Something is definitely up.Posted on May 10, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesUnrequited faith.Posted on May 9, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS is breaking eggs and burning pancakes.Posted on May 8, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS just doesn't quit. Plus: Jersey's Jackson and Toni TIF.Posted on May 7, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRichard Herman, God's special creature. Plus: Casino lessons from Toronto.Posted on May 6, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusKentucky long shots and Chicago gambles.Posted on May 4, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS admits whopping error but sticks to story.Posted on May 3, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Golden Padlock, Piggly Wrigley, and the Northwestern wahmbulance.Posted on May 2, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesToo late.Posted on May 1, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDid Rahm just make the parking meter deal worse?Posted on April 30, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNotgunnahappen.Posted on April 29, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesGovernor Gumby's PDFs.Posted on April 27, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRangel and Rahm sittin' in a tree . . .Posted on April 26, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesReturn of the Arne Duncan clout scandal.Posted on April 25, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMath class.Posted on April 24, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahmocrisy.Posted on April 23, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's hospital desert. Plus: Rahm the Repackager and more CPS class size madness.Posted on April 22, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusUnfunniest. Week. EVER.Posted on April 20, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSchmidt's Artist Lofts, PBR Talls and Reporting That Doesn't Suck.Posted on April 19, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNorth Side sinkhole and generally inspecting ethics.Posted on April 18, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOur Town.Posted on April 17, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLet's be solemn, not histrionic.Posted on April 16, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm Knows Best. Plus: Obama vs. Obama.Posted on April 15, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesNot Doing It Right: North Korea, Tiger Woods, Caribou Coffee, bra professor.Posted on April 13, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGarbage pick-up.Posted on April 12, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTom Ricketts has no one to blame but himself.Posted on April 11, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS: Creating Phony Statistics.Posted on April 10, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMinding Rahm's P's.Posted on April 9, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe final cut.Posted on April 8, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusApparently the last 100 years of scientific and social progress has also been sequestered.Posted on April 6, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm and Ricketts.Posted on April 5, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Tribune doubles down on disingenuousness.Posted on April 4, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNot like a good neighbor.Posted on April 3, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS: Credibility Patently Sapped.Posted on April 2, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Daley House of Horrors.Posted on April 1, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThe Great Chicago Fire Fest! Too soon?Posted on March 30, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahmmies-come-lately.Posted on March 29, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe anti-factuality of Rahm Emanuel. #cpsclosingsPosted on March 28, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOfficial Chicago vs. The Rest Of Us. Plus: Sheila Simon gets head start on campaign lies and Obama administration bluffs on gay marriage.Posted on March 27, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTime bombs and tribulations.Posted on March 26, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe ghost of Daley dunnit.Posted on March 25, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesThe return of Rahm and other discontents.Posted on March 23, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS as Lichtenstein.Posted on March 22, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesClosing black schools, the Cubs' reporting trough and the Modern Wing's circus trip.Posted on March 21, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe school closers will be greeted as liberators.Posted on March 20, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCop Corrections, Ward Wars, Jail Fail and Wireless Bill Beavers.Posted on March 19, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOur Democrats.Posted on March 18, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusPersepolis, Pat Quinn and Penny Pritzker.Posted on March 16, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPigeons with little nuts.Posted on March 15, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe self-sequester of Illinois. Symbolic screws. Bruce Rauner's voices.Posted on March 14, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBill Beavers, Derrick Rose and Cheap Trick.Posted on March 13, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesProgramming notes.Posted on March 12, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTransparency vs. Truth.Posted on March 11, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesThe fetching stylings of Ed Burke, Rand Paul, James Meeks, Pat Brady and Stompin' Tom Connors.Posted on March 9, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago Math.Posted on March 8, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS: Can't Plan Shit.Posted on March 7, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm loses class size credibility.Posted on March 6, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDawn Clark Netsch, Redflex, Aaron Swartz, Bruce Rauner and Michael Sneed's Gangnam Style.Posted on March 5, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThird World Chicago.Posted on March 4, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusIt's Uncle McFester's Magic Sequester!Posted on March 2, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPoints of light.Posted on March 1, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSequester jesters.Posted on February 28, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTold ya so.Posted on February 27, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJean-Claude McCarthy, Blago's Burner, Poll Hole, Governor Gumby and more!Posted on February 26, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCuts, courts and clout.Posted on February 25, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusDaniel Day-Lewis, Karen Lewis and The Wheel of Life.Posted on February 23, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe common laws of Drew Peterson.Posted on February 22, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJunior, Sandi, Rahm and Robin.Posted on February 21, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTaste of Heroin.Posted on February 20, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDroning on.Posted on February 19, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPresidential.Posted on February 18, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThe most bizarre, disgusting, shadiest, jaw-dropping story of the week.Posted on February 16, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLate.Posted on February 15, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe CPS list, Joe Moreno's gymnastics and Pat Quinn's candy heart.Posted on February 14, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe shaky debut of Rahm's new alderman.Posted on February 13, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesUnicorny.Posted on February 12, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago: The Most Coincidental City On Earth!Posted on February 11, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusPanetta & Teller.Posted on February 9, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesReflex and Rahm in crisis.Posted on February 8, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLead from ahead.Posted on February 7, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesImperfect victims and Illinois' mental health.Posted on February 6, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIn Illinois, the punch line writes you.Posted on February 5, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJealous, petty sniping.Posted on February 4, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusSocratic politics.Posted on February 2, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMission almost accomplished.Posted on February 1, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBrain freeze.Posted on January 31, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHammer time.Posted on January 30, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBrain freeze.Posted on January 29, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBrain redistribution.Posted on January 28, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusIt's Super Bore Sunday time!Posted on January 26, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOur hero saves Wrigley Field. For the Ricketts'.Posted on January 25, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJust like North Korea.Posted on January 24, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA town's malice.Posted on January 23, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhat Gary Larson and MLK said.Posted on January 22, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesObama and King.Posted on January 21, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThe real frauds.Posted on January 19, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBull.Posted on January 18, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesButts and nuts.Posted on January 17, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEd Burke's lions' den.Posted on January 16, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMcCarthy misrepresents.Posted on January 15, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRemembering Aaron Swartz.Posted on January 14, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesSandi Jackson, Hugo Chavez, Joe Biden, Mark Zuckerberg, Taylor Swift and Australia's Wall of Sand.Posted on January 12, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA brief programming note.Posted on January 11, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSensationalism and stenography.Posted on January 10, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBeer brawl, Chicago casino, CPS food fraud, deja Daley and Hobby Lobby.Posted on January 9, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRobin Kelly's race to lose and a spectacularly bad casino idea.Posted on January 8, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTax rackets.Posted on January 7, 2013 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusFiscal graffiti and football plays.Posted on January 5, 2013 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Dick and Deb Mell Show.Posted on January 4, 2013 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGay games and car shares.Posted on January 3, 2013 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago smells.Posted on January 2, 2013 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRemembering snow.Posted on January 1, 2013 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesVolume.Posted on December 31, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesThe Flying Saucer is back from break and other important updates.Posted on December 29, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCorporate profits and hot plates at all-time highs.Posted on December 27, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPizza beer and Obamacare.Posted on December 26, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesInstaChristmas.Posted on December 25, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHoliday schmoliday.Posted on December 24, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusCoal in the NRA's stocking.Posted on December 22, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBill Daley, Sandi Jackson and Midway's meterness.Posted on December 21, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSnowflakes and Sandy Hook.Posted on December 20, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGuess what? There was a hidden drawer.Posted on December 19, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCook County Illustrated.Posted on December 18, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe intersection of guns, Rahm, mental health and the 2nd District congressional seat.Posted on December 17, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusShipwrecks vs. Trainwrecks.Posted on December 15, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJacksonomics, Rahmonomics, Obamanomics.Posted on December 14, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJay Levine vs. Mick Dumke.Posted on December 13, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesVia social media.Posted on December 12, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS: Expanding access to high quality bullshit.Posted on December 11, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJudge Dread, a bus jihad and Sandi (maybe) makes her move.Posted on December 10, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy The Weekend Desk "B" TeamPSY vs. Obama.Posted on December 8, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTrotter busts a cap, Quinn does a rap, and Preckwinkle minds the gap.Posted on December 7, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDonne Trotter and the Rahmfather.Posted on December 6, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPotatoes, Peraica and Electric Rahm Orchestra.Posted on December 5, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCasino queens.Posted on December 4, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPersonal day.Posted on December 3, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThe illusion of choice in Chicago.Posted on December 1, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLaShawn Ford is no bank fraud. Plus: bad week for Anita Alvarez.Posted on November 30, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHow can you tell when Rahm is lying? His lips move.Posted on November 29, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's red light district. Plus: Mel Reynolds returns to finish the job and Barbara Byrd-Bennett does her best Brizard.Posted on November 28, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMayor Rahmney strikes again.Posted on November 27, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMartin Sandoval, Debbie Downer, Rhymefest, Lawrence from Office Space and the U.S. Supreme Court meet again.Posted on November 26, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy The Weekend Desk "B" TeamDisposition matrixes for Egypt, Bobby Rush, Larry Hagman and dwarf planets.Posted on November 24, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGovernor Squeezy's Black Tuesday and other insanities.Posted on November 21, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Embarrassment Bowl: Squeezy vs. The Bears.Posted on November 20, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA python is now the official state joke, though the Chicago city council is still in the running.Posted on November 19, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusDitka, Boehner, Israel, Romney and mini-Ditka go over the cliff.Posted on November 17, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's secret con, the Bears' secret concussion and the Jacksons' con to-be.Posted on November 16, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBrain damage.Posted on November 15, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe mayor's Ding Dongs and Chicago's latest conspiracies.Posted on November 14, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMethinks Rahm protest too little.Posted on November 13, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm Milhouse Nixon.Posted on November 12, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusA New America where David Petraeus acts like Justin Bieber.Posted on November 10, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPlanet Quinn, Junior's World & Hurricane Sandi.Posted on November 9, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSneed takes a message; Bill Daley cries wolf.Posted on November 8, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCanned and panned.Posted on November 7, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesVoting has become an exercise in spite as much as anything else.Posted on November 6, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Otter Defense and our Rise Group overlords.Posted on November 5, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusLouie C.K.'s new diversions. Plus: Groupon and Metra go bump.Posted on November 3, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFair weather Rahm caught not minding the store.Posted on November 2, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's billboards, Junior's absenteeism and Moreno's hipster hash.Posted on November 1, 2012 The [Halloween] PapersBy Steve RhodesA new fiesta in the making.Posted on October 31, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago traders upset Sandy pausing their profiteering.Posted on October 30, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBarack Bush, Mayor Rahmney and The Riot.Posted on October 29, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusPutting the Hi in Ohio.Posted on October 27, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesObamnesia and other discontents.Posted on October 26, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDirty Diana, Barbara Byrd-Brizard and Pat's Prisons.Posted on October 25, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesField of Memes.Posted on October 24, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJunior's saga gets weirder by the day. Plus, a Taste of Chicago Truth Test.Posted on October 23, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRobo Jackson and Redflex.Posted on October 22, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusMouth Walsh.Posted on October 20, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCook County Clue, Rahm's multiple choice test, Proco Joe's pet issue and Junior's Spun-Times.Posted on October 19, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe red light specials of Michael Madigan and Toni Preckwinkle.Posted on October 18, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRedflex rapped, the fiber optics to torture, more Night Shift at the morgue, and Cubbie math.Posted on October 17, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's magical budget, Northwestern's magical patch of land and Brendan Reilly's magical bike patrols.Posted on October 16, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJunior's furniture, Wade's shoes, Rahm's red lights and one nutty judge.Posted on October 15, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusMeet next year's Nobel Peace Prize winner.Posted on October 13, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMopes, dopes, rats and scat.Posted on October 12, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAmusing taxes.Posted on October 11, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTaxing bullets and suckers.Posted on October 10, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBoo, hoo & moo.Posted on October 9, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesColumbo Day.Posted on October 8, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesStreets & San, Sex & Sports, and the Chicago McMarathon.Posted on October 6, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesClout kings and debt stings.Posted on October 5, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesObama sucks, Rahm's socks and The Egg Plant That Ate Chicago.Posted on October 4, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPumpkins and pot.Posted on October 3, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDog whistles and double standards.Posted on October 2, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLindsay Lohan! Plus: Ed Burke's gum, Yusef Jackson's beer, Tribune Co.'s hypocrisy and Cook County's clout courts.Posted on October 1, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusBeer politics and bitter tears.Posted on September 29, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's roust ruled unconstitutional. Sandi Jackson ruled despicable.Posted on September 28, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAppealing to your senses.Posted on September 27, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTales of Sandi Jackal.Posted on September 26, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe day Illinois stopped caring.Posted on September 25, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe smallness of Madigan's mouthpiece and Sandi's spokesman.Posted on September 24, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusTaste the evidence.Posted on September 22, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLimping toward Bethlehem.Posted on September 21, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMayor Rahmney, Mrs. Christ and Kissing Toronto.Posted on September 20, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBudgets, morals, chickens and beer.Posted on September 19, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPrison state and the Cactus bomber.Posted on September 18, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTerrorist targets bike messengers.Posted on September 17, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusStrike back at ya'.Posted on September 15, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGoats, Walmart and Tammy Buckworth.Posted on September 14, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesKid stuff.Posted on September 13, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPolitical conslutting.Posted on September 12, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSpeed cameras of choice.Posted on September 11, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSecret prisons, revolving regulators and the home rule ruse.Posted on September 10, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusLance Armstrong, Paul Ryan and marathon negotiations.Posted on September 8, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDrew Peterson and Chief Keef.Posted on September 7, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLand of Lincoln.Posted on September 6, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWould you like lentils with that?Posted on September 5, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRyan's lies vs. Rahm's.Posted on September 4, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBetrayed.Posted on September 3, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy The Weekend Desk B TeamNeverland, Indiana; the flame retardant lobby; and Chicagoland's vagina chronicles.Posted on September 1, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe long goodbye of J.C. Brizard.Posted on August 31, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesUnaccountable: TIFs, Rahm and the Chicago Code.Posted on August 30, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGambling and the Infrastructure Trust.Posted on August 29, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS and CTA follies.Posted on August 28, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe suburbs are killing us.Posted on August 27, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusIs a Category 1 storm forcible enough for you?Posted on August 25, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSlush funds and subsidies.Posted on August 24, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWest Nile, Mancow's Madness and Hastert's Highway.Posted on August 23, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPreckwinkle vs. Reagan.Posted on August 22, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGarry McCarthy plays dumb.Posted on August 21, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJust a shorty.Posted on August 20, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusPaul Ryan and Pussy Riot.Posted on August 18, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSpringfield puts on a show. Chicago expresses its values.Posted on August 17, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesExpel Bellwood, save Derrick Smith and resist the park sharks.Posted on August 16, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEd Burke, Faisal Khan and the hapless board of ethics.Posted on August 15, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWater cannons and sister cities.Posted on August 14, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMotorola's mobility and Pat's secret prisons.Posted on August 13, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusCorn, cheese, Paul Ryan and Netflix.Posted on August 11, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBears, FBI, parking tickets and Team Rahm.Posted on August 10, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Usual Suspects starring Patti Blago, Richard M. Daley, Penny Pritzker, Pat Quinn, Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel.Posted on August 8, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Sun-Times in the shark tank. CPS too.Posted on August 8, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGeorge Ryan still sucks. And black-on-black is really poor-on-poor.Posted on August 7, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes#Sikh, #Curiosity and #Lolla.Posted on August 6, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesOlympic taxes, value meals and helper bugs.Posted on August 4, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe ghosts of Todd Stroger and Rahm's twisting Trust.Posted on August 3, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBig tables, bad people.Posted on August 2, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe ghost of Daley and the ghost of Springfield.Posted on August 1, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCrowdsourcing the council, the Cardinal rules and Cubmageddon.Posted on July 31, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCash Dash, Vo-Tech, Bleeding Heart.Posted on July 30, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusAn homage to Olympian myopics.Posted on July 28, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDutiful.Posted on July 27, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEnd game.Posted on July 26, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMoreno chickens out.Posted on July 25, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCustom built.Posted on July 24, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSame conditions apply.Posted on July 23, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusFred Willard, Walmart and Beer.Posted on July 21, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDitto.Posted on July 20, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAdjust your viewing accordingly.Posted on July 19, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMopes and dopes.Posted on July 18, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesClown state, bro.Posted on July 17, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTeachers win, cops lose, Taste draws.Posted on July 16, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusLegacies.Posted on July 14, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWe Are Illinois.Posted on July 13, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDisorder and dat.Posted on July 12, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMoody suckers.Posted on July 11, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTeam Rahm's unbearable whiteness of being.Posted on July 10, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesShame.Posted on July 9, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusBliss vs. Ignorance. Transparent vs. Empty. Death vs. Taxes.Posted on July 7, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHot, exhausted, red-eyed and wrongfully prosecuted.Posted on July 6, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLicense to ill.Posted on July 5, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSillynois.Posted on July 4, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHinky and winky.Posted on July 3, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBrown paper bags and Molotov cocktails.Posted on July 2, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy The Weekend Desk B TeamMall cops and news dumps.Posted on June 30, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMedicaid and mopes.Posted on June 29, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDewey beats Obama.Posted on June 28, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMedical mysteries and paper clips.Posted on June 27, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJoe Berrios can only exist because Democrats let him.Posted on June 26, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe fierce urgency of Rahm's patronization.Posted on June 25, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusUnderlying conditions: Incredibly bleak.Posted on June 23, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGridlock, gangs and data portals.Posted on June 22, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTurkey legs and green screens.Posted on June 20, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGot Pot? Plus: Geek Mart.Posted on June 20, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCrotch squirrels and colonoscopies.Posted on June 19, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJustice delayed and messages made.Posted on June 18, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusPunch Line Edition featuring Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Costner, Lindsay Lohan and the euro.Posted on June 16, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's pot tickets and press agents.Posted on June 15, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGovernor Hoover.Posted on June 14, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTrust betrayed.Posted on June 13, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesExhibiting fake job creationPosted on June 12, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's fake graduation claims.Posted on June 11, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy The Weekend Desk B TeamThe soft bigotry of Chicago's low expectations.Posted on June 9, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Unknown Legislator and Criminal Injustice.Posted on June 8, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSocial distortion.Posted on June 7, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMartha Washington way hipper than Garry McCarthy and Barack Obama.Posted on June 6, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDefunding the torture commission. Subsidizing Hyatt and Sara Lee.Posted on June 5, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGoodie bag.Posted on June 2, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusLoose change.Posted on June 2, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMisdirection plays.Posted on June 1, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTrading posts and presidential ghosts.Posted on May 31, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOpposites attract.Posted on May 30, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago goes moo.Posted on May 29, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusFictions. Frictions. Corrections. Elections. Prescriptions. Depictions.Posted on May 26, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe games Democrats play.Posted on May 25, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFitzgerald vs. Obama.Posted on May 23, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDonuts, postmen, dogs and Chicago pols.Posted on May 23, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago Protesters Get High Marks!Posted on May 21, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGhost of Richie Daley sighted again.Posted on May 21, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy The Weekend Desk B TeamNATO goes donuts. And The Kerry Wood Watch.Posted on May 20, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWe had Wood; now we've got Ricketts.Posted on May 18, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesYay NATO! Yay Rahm! Yay America!Posted on May 17, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's NATO, the CPS spy and Bill Daley's favorite banker.Posted on May 16, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCourage.Posted on May 15, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Illini's faulty search engine.Posted on May 14, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusTruth takes a beating.Posted on May 12, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHints, lies, allegations.Posted on May 10, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAnd you're worried about traffic tie-ups?Posted on May 10, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOur man in fantasyland.Posted on May 9, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNATO kites, whistleblower rights and Wrigley plan bites.Posted on May 8, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLegacy projects.Posted on May 7, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusKentucky Derby Alpha Edition.Posted on May 5, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHelter Skelter in the Heartland.Posted on May 4, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesConrad, Kanye and Cowley.Posted on May 3, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRichie Daley's pension scam.Posted on May 2, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe city's latest economic impact study isn't even close.Posted on May 1, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDerrick Rose is still a cheater. Tom Thibodeau is an awful person. Pat Quinn's pants are on fire. Rahm Emanuel makes us gag. And suburbanites dull their dullness.Posted on April 30, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy The Weekend Desk B TeamThe need for speed.Posted on April 28, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRed zones and monkeypox.Posted on April 27, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe aliens are already here.Posted on April 26, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAldermen behaving dumbly.Posted on April 25, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's new bank won't even come with free toasters.Posted on April 24, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's pants still aflame. Plus: Hogan's heroes.Posted on April 23, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy The Weekend Desk B TeamThe Wolf, The Kardashians and National Record Store Day.Posted on April 21, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSaucerful of secrets.Posted on April 20, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIt's not really infrastructure, it's extrastructure.Posted on April 19, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMary Schmich's yellow pad.Posted on April 18, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMary Schmich's maudlin bullshit is rewarded with a Pulitzer.Posted on April 17, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLove and hope and sex and dreams.Posted on April 16, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusPenguin poo and the long lost Blago brother.Posted on April 14, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe fierce urgency of Aragon bathroom sex and other sordid tales from the big city.Posted on April 13, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBombardier away.Posted on April 12, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGoverning in reverse.Posted on April 11, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Moneyball Mayor's credibility gap.Posted on April 10, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhole cloth in the Koschman case. Alexi's punky bank. Hog McNuts with fries.Posted on April 9, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusTiger Woods vs. the economic recovery. James Cameron vs. history. CPS vs. itself.Posted on April 7, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's Breakfast Club.Posted on April 6, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesStrip clubs and CEOs.Posted on April 5, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDaddy is a little crazy.Posted on April 4, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEvil walks beside you.Posted on April 3, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGone fishin'.Posted on April 2, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusIt's the Final Four . . . Horsemen of the Apocalypse.Posted on March 31, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm vs. Junior. Lazy lottery suckers. Teen parking meters.Posted on March 30, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJudging Jesse White. Plus: Rahm plants a story and more from Chicago Way University.Posted on March 29, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHow about never? Is never good for you?Posted on March 28, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's lack of street cred. The South Side's post-trauma syndrome. And more milk magnate madness.Posted on March 27, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMilk and media games.Posted on March 26, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusPluto, Tebow, Newt-o, and Syrian chic.Posted on March 24, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesUniversity of Illinois flunks. CPS program dunks. Rahm Emanuel funks. Airline punks.Posted on March 23, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm declares a sewage emergency. Plus: Was Putin behind the G8 move?Posted on March 22, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBanks got bailed out, students got the shaft.Posted on March 21, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesVoting for the Machine out of spite?Posted on March 20, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBallot busting.Posted on March 19, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusRosie, Blago and a pony for the CTA.Posted on March 17, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBlago's road show.Posted on March 16, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBye Bye Blago.Posted on March 15, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesArrested state rep is the least of our problems.Posted on March 14, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThere but for the grace of Patrick Fitzgerald goes Rahm.Posted on March 13, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCitizens advised to ignore judge's campaign contributions to those who appear before him.Posted on March 12, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy The Weekend Desk B TeamDaley is a Family Guy.Posted on March 10, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIf it wasn't for Lori Healey, Rahm Emanuel, unnamed top administration officials, mayoral confidantes and Michael Bloomberg, Annazette Collins be Today's Worst Person In Chicago.Posted on March 9, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesToday's global citizens.Posted on March 8, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA new fiesta in the making!Posted on March 7, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLosing our moment.Posted on March 6, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMcCarthyisms.Posted on March 5, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusWhoring it up with Justin Bieber and Lindsay Lohan.Posted on March 3, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSummiteering.Posted on March 2, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe lost decade that isn't anybody's fault.Posted on March 1, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's collection state.Posted on February 29, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThey didn't keep score: The end of magic secret hockey.Posted on February 27, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPatrick Daley is rich, sleazy and still in business with his father.Posted on February 26, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThe Artist vs. The Candidates.Posted on February 25, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBill Beavers: Living proof the clothes don't the make the man.Posted on February 24, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGovernor Gumby and the (new) pothole mayor.Posted on February 23, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesQuinn's spin, Rahm's frame, poor Orr, Leinie's leap.Posted on February 22, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe failed policies of the past.Posted on February 21, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm vs. kids, teachers, the mentally ill.Posted on February 20, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusDanica Patrick vs. Mitt Romney, Jerry Seinfeld vs. Steve Carell, and Penn State vs. Spain.Posted on February 18, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTuck in your shirt and shut up!Posted on February 17, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIf you want to inflame protesters and set the stage for a disaster, the city is doing everything right.Posted on February 16, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHeartland of Darkness.Posted on February 15, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's secret sauce, Chicago's Peanut Man, Hammy Grammy's and the Koschman case goes from bad to worse - again.Posted on February 14, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe way Abe would've wanted it.Posted on February 13, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy The Weekend Desk B TeamRahm Emanuel exposed as a liar who pimped a six-year-old's death in order to fake the real reason why he pushed so hard for speed-camera legislation.Posted on February 11, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's mouth stuck shut.Posted on February 10, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSticker shock.Posted on February 9, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPat Quinn loves patronage. Michael Madigan hates torture commissions.Posted on February 8, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHomer Cantu's hangover remedy. Plus: Menard's vs. Krupp's.Posted on February 7, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGoodies galore.Posted on February 6, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy The Weekend Desk B TeamGermans blindside Rahm. Plus: Your Super Bowl Reader.Posted on February 4, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThey're planting stories in the press.Posted on February 3, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMilwaukee Avenue Soul Train.Posted on February 2, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAnita Alvarez is Today's Worst Person In Chicago. But Joe Moore sucks too.Posted on February 1, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEarthquakes, nukes, pharmacies, segregation and Rahm's lack of faith-based transparency.Posted on January 31, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Chicago Obama knows.Posted on January 30, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusSuper Bore Sunday Edition.Posted on January 28, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's protesters get paid; everyone else's get jailed.Posted on January 27, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's rent-a-protesters and Keystone Illinois.Posted on January 26, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe State of the Union sucks pretty hard.Posted on January 25, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's selective name-naming.Posted on January 24, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe greasy glide path of an alderman's daughter.Posted on January 23, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusSex, villains, secret heirs and mysterious ward maps.Posted on January 21, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm Emanuel and Michael Madigan: The Blues Brothers.Posted on January 20, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe trader traitor and the president's bad optics.Posted on January 19, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCabs, contracts, cronyism and corporate welfare.Posted on January 18, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOur crappy congressmen. Plus: Kraft bash and bad boy Billy Marovitz.Posted on January 17, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBeware posers who would oppose King if he were here today.Posted on January 16, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusBreaking news: Snow is slippery, Paula Deen causes diabetes and the Eurozone is in crisis.Posted on January 14, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesVulture capitalists, vulture journalists, and vulture politicians.Posted on January 13, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesObama's moneybomb, Desiree's faux pas and G8/NATO meter madness.Posted on January 12, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAlexi, Obama, Burke, Spike Lee, Lady Gaga and the Merry Millionaire.Posted on January 11, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBill Daley and Todd Stroger are back.Posted on January 10, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHomeland Insecurity, Rahmen Noodles and Roadkill.Posted on January 9, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusVegas values control the narrative.Posted on January 7, 2012 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm don't like Mondays.Posted on January 6, 2012 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFixing the glitch.Posted on January 5, 2012 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMuddling through Rahm's scary reversal.Posted on January 4, 2012 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFat Cats, The Pope and The Pastor.Posted on January 3, 2012 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBarack Bush and buying Drano.Posted on January 2, 2012 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusInvasive species in Iowa, the Great Lakes and the Kraft Hunger Bowl.Posted on December 31, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOccupying Cardinal George.Posted on December 30, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAn abbreviated taste of Chicago: Cardinal George, beer futures and dirty sandwiches.Posted on December 29, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSears essentials.Posted on December 28, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSears sucks.Posted on December 27, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPackergirl, Olyndra and a new corruption tax.Posted on December 26, 2011 The Christmas 2011 Weekend Desk ReportBy The Weekend Desk B TeamA sexy snowpocalyptic Christmas for the rest of us.Posted on December 24, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSanta Claus, Tim Tebow and Cardinal George.Posted on December 23, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMatt Damon, Jon Stewart, Bill Moyers, the ACLU, Harper's, the Atlantic and Colin Powell's former chief of staff vs. Barack Obama.Posted on December 22, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTorture, banksters and the Sun-Times News Cooperative.Posted on December 21, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSlouching toward 2012.Posted on December 20, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBlago, Lohan, Ed Burke, Kim Jong-il and Our Lady of the Underpass.Posted on December 19, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusPardon us. We don't want to disrupt your weekend with any actual news or anything.Posted on December 17, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBarack McCarthy, Rod Sneed, Gentile George and the Asbestos Judge.Posted on December 16, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBlago's fake drug problem, the CPD's fake Koschman investigation, and Rahm's fake transparency.Posted on December 15, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe evolution of Rod Blagojevich, James Zagel, Playboy, Brian Urlacher, the Obama re-election campaign and more.Posted on December 14, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFrickin' universe.Posted on December 13, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPeanut butter jelly time with the Bears, Blago, Groupon and Terry Savage.Posted on December 12, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusSpecial Tim TebPosted on December 10, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPizza meth and more.Posted on December 9, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBleak Blago.Posted on December 8, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhy Blago deserves no mercy.Posted on December 7, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThrow the book at Rod Blagojevich.Posted on December 6, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBill Cosby, teen sexting and Listeria.Posted on December 5, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy The Weekend Desk B TeamInside jobs.Posted on December 3, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm and Pat's mental health.Posted on December 2, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe shameless, stubborn state police. Corporate incentives gone wild. And our local dailies on the block again.Posted on December 1, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm Emanuel's lies and secrets.Posted on November 30, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNo tax break for Sears until they stop selling those jeans.Posted on November 29, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMic checked.Posted on November 28, 2011 The [Thanksgiving 2011] PapersBy Steve RhodesAmerica can no longer afford turkeys.Posted on November 23, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHoliday greetings.Posted on November 22, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIs this heaven? No, it's Egg Harbor.Posted on November 21, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThere's a reason he's called Superman not Committeeman.Posted on November 19, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLawyers gone wild.Posted on November 18, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhere's the outrage? It's here.Posted on November 17, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMayor 1%. Celebrity pancakes. Mob wives. Tart cherries.Posted on November 16, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRedistributionist Rahm and Master Madigan.Posted on November 15, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe jokes of Michael Madigan, Ed Burke, Dan Webb and federal jury system are on us.Posted on November 14, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusMost countries tear down the symbols of their tyrants' power. We hide behind them.Posted on November 12, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCan anyone here run a federal jury? Plus: Graham Spanier's North Shore migration and the insanity of Bill Beavers, Michael Jordan and CPS.Posted on November 11, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDisgraced Penn State president grew up on the South Side.Posted on November 10, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe fierce urgency of coddling the rich and punishing the poor.Posted on November 9, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRich kids, poor kids. Plus: Rahm hates democracy as much as Daley did.Posted on November 8, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesObama owns this economy. Democrats own your judges. Pilates owns reform.Posted on November 7, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThe new 9-9-9.Posted on November 5, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTurkey bowling, Rezko, and American Dads.Posted on November 4, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDeposing Daley. Occupying the tax code. President 1%. Redistricting Chicago.Posted on November 3, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe media's mystery aldermen.Posted on November 2, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSongs and stories.Posted on November 1, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHarvey banksters.Posted on October 31, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusSpecial Halloween Costume Edition.Posted on October 29, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMemo to MSM: John Cullerton, the CME and Jerry Reinsdorf have something to do with Occupy Chicago.Posted on October 28, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIllinois taxpayers (99%) continue to subsidize Jerry Reinsdorf (1%).Posted on October 27, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOccupy McRib.Posted on October 26, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLet them eat bugs!Posted on October 25, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesToday's villains.Posted on October 24, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusIntelligence is up, Princes are down. Plus: The NFL teams you'll never see in London.Posted on October 22, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOf the children, by the children, for the children.Posted on October 21, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEmperors, clothes, and a perfect example of what everyone is so angry about.Posted on October 20, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThere's the right side of the rivalry and the stupid side.Posted on October 19, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOn to Wednesday!Posted on October 18, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOccupy Wall Street's new math.Posted on October 17, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusBears futures, class warfare and prodigal thugs.Posted on October 15, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS vs. CTU vs. CYA.Posted on October 14, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesObama is yesterday's news; now the followers are leading.Posted on October 13, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTheo Epstein occupies the Cubs, Kid Rock occupies the Midwest and lice occupies your kid's head.Posted on October 12, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOccupying Daley, Rahm and Obama.Posted on October 11, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNeil Steinberg wants us to love America or leave it.Posted on October 10, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusMay this be the bloated '85 Bears cow's final milking.Posted on October 8, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDining on the enemy.Posted on October 7, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSteve Jobs: The genius and the horror.Posted on October 6, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBill Cellini gets another nickname.Posted on October 5, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve Rhodes13 Loko.Posted on October 4, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe most grandly titled Illinoisan ever goes on trial.Posted on October 3, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusTweet it out, bitches.Posted on October 1, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe emperor is shedding more clothes than a Charlie Sheen party at the Playboy mansion.Posted on September 30, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAlways a good decision.Posted on September 29, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMillion-dollar bash.Posted on September 28, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFire sale!Posted on September 27, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSkunks and Packers.Posted on September 26, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusAs long as you're not under the market when it crashes, you're pretty much golden.Posted on September 24, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesClass war, evil mini-medical school and cab court.Posted on September 23, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe never-ending abuse of the public till.Posted on September 22, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago lobbyists swear they're not really trying.Posted on September 21, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTo Minneapolis.Posted on September 20, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesVote Dave.Posted on September 19, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Steve RhodesSmells like a steak and seats 35.Posted on September 17, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBratwursts and Bootsy.Posted on September 16, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLike a good neighbor.Posted on September 15, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhere hope goes to die.Posted on September 14, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLiberal fakers in Reaganland.Posted on September 13, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHomers.Posted on September 12, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusWidespread socioeconomic devastation on Kickoff Weekend.Posted on September 10, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe generic president.Posted on September 9, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPenny Pritzker's housekeeping.Posted on September 8, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMaybe if the torture had occurred under Cook County State's Attorney Dick Cheney.Posted on September 7, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesStrange times when Conrad Black becomes likable and Barack Obama becomes detestablePosted on September 6, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThe Department of Labor doesn't even want us working on our jokes.Posted on September 3, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe people at the top always take care of themselves, don't they?Posted on September 2, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm is the Don Rickles of politics.Posted on September 1, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOur folks are a joy to read even if you don't normally follow the topics they do.Posted on August 31, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Chicago police are too busy to respond to your shooting. Plus: Rahm's budget baloney.Posted on August 30, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesState babysitters, Cicero hot dogs, Brown Line wood and bad parenting.Posted on August 29, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy The Weekend Desk B TeamHeckuva job, Barry.Posted on August 27, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA bold experiment: Let's stop reporting on what candidates and officeholders say altogether. Instead, let's only report what they do or have done.Posted on August 26, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe spin machines of Rahm Emanuel and Michael Madigan.Posted on August 25, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe latest mystery of Michael Madigan. Plus, Bill Gates' local investments and how a small town downstate is stealing from Chicago.Posted on August 24, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLibya's American-made enablers.Posted on August 23, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIt's getting crowded in here.Posted on August 22, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusMission: Impossible's latest edition, "Hair and Gas."Posted on August 20, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHints and allegations.Posted on August 19, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHow Rahm is letting Daley off the hook in the Burge cases.Posted on August 18, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe book the president hasn't read.Posted on August 17, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEnjoy these fine offerings.Posted on August 16, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMotorola Mobility's mockery.Posted on August 15, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusGarbage in, garbage out.Posted on August 13, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAlternate punch lines.Posted on August 12, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPlease don't settle the Burge case.Posted on August 11, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDaley is to Rumsfeld what Ricketts is to Obama.Posted on August 10, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTorture and taxes.Posted on August 9, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDeportations and dreams.Posted on August 8, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusA bloodied credit rating.Posted on August 6, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBouncing braless in Obama's America.Posted on August 5, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBulls on Parade: Daley, Rahm, Obama.Posted on August 4, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWorld-class poverty.Posted on August 3, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAusterity America.Posted on August 2, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJim Hendry vs. Barack Obama. Plus, the Amazing Vaneckos.Posted on August 1, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThe Market Report goes out with a bang.Posted on July 30, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThat's Pat!Posted on July 29, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPatsy Quinn strikes again. So does Boeing, United and Uncle Fatty's.Posted on July 28, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGarry McCarthy and the Sun-Times frame an issue in contradiction to the facts.Posted on July 27, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesUnlike the debt ceiling debate, Amy Winehouse wasn't a joke.Posted on July 26, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMissing Koschman files just another Chicago coinkydink.Posted on July 25, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusCompletely fake recycling.Posted on July 23, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe debt ceiling is the debate; Daley once again disappears from history.Posted on July 22, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMayor Rahm: Typical Liberal.Posted on July 21, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhen being loyal to the Daleys more important than a dead kid.Posted on July 20, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRevisiting Daley's deadly moment.Posted on July 19, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRubber chickens and topless bars.Posted on July 18, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusNo one beats Rupert Murdoch in a being-sorry competition. No one!Posted on July 16, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHere we are now, entertain us.Posted on July 15, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA march of folly.Posted on July 14, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesR. Kelly bombs the suburbs.Posted on July 13, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDeng, Boeing, United, Albini, Skilling and a peacock named Fluffy.Posted on July 12, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAbout Illinois' student loan czar. Plus: Rahm Hendry, Chicago's Cupid, Cicero's Stroger.Posted on July 11, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy The Weekend Desk B TeamA new White Sox drinking game. Plus, Ed Burke's security, Pat Quinn's shin-kicking, and the mystery of Arby's.Posted on July 9, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesKomcastic!Posted on July 8, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGeorge Ryan is not sorry.Posted on July 7, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDoctor day.Posted on July 6, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGiant turkey legs and deep dish.Posted on July 5, 2011 The [Fourth of July] PapersBy Steve RhodesSpicoli, Dylan, Bragg.Posted on July 4, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusFourth of July Conversation Stopper Edition.Posted on July 2, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAmerica The Ugly.Posted on July 1, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMegabus, Spirit Air and the NEA.Posted on June 30, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIllinois: The Comedy Central State.Posted on June 29, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBlago Notes.Posted on June 28, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesVerdicts and paydays.Posted on June 27, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThe eight-ring circus comes to town.Posted on June 25, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBeach Blanket Bingo.Posted on June 24, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJean-Claude Antoinette.Posted on June 23, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSalary pump at CPS.Posted on June 22, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesImagine if the city ran the only brothel in town.Posted on June 21, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPatsy Quinn's candy store is open.Posted on June 20, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusStarring Michelle Bachmann as Temporary Sarah Palin.Posted on June 18, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTransfers of wealth, treasure and sanity.Posted on June 17, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCasting call for Chicago.Posted on June 16, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRainy day people.Posted on June 15, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMark Kirk pumps it up.Posted on June 14, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWendy's To Sell Arby's To Hardee's.Posted on June 13, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusSpray tan, bathroom breaks and endless Buffetts.Posted on June 11, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSick dayPosted on June 10, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBack in black. Back in black!Posted on June 8, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThis sucks.Posted on June 7, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCrash landing.Posted on June 6, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusHere come the bloodsuckers.Posted on June 4, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBlago buries himself in lies.Posted on June 3, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTumbling dice.Posted on June 2, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA sucker's bet. And you're the sucker.Posted on June 1, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGet me rewrite.Posted on May 31, 2011 The [Memorial Day] PapersBy Steve RhodesGone fishin'.Posted on May 30, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusCorruption, corruption everywhere and nary a Blatter to bribe.Posted on May 28, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhy the law, dad?Posted on May 27, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPlaying craps with the media, the city and the state.Posted on May 26, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLeRoy Neiman's Chicago.Posted on May 25, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPoker stars.Posted on May 24, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWorld-class delusions.Posted on May 23, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusEveryone gets an Apocalypse sometime.Posted on May 21, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesStructural protein, market economics and trampolines.Posted on May 20, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's symbolic (non-existent) budget cuts.Posted on May 19, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe corporate casino.Posted on May 18, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChange is like sex; those who talk the most about it do it the least.Posted on May 17, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Daley Code.Posted on May 16, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy The Weekend Desk B Team#goodriddance.Posted on May 14, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA smooth transition.Posted on May 13, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWe're a world-class little town!Posted on May 12, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSchock, Pfleger, KFC and Bank of America.Posted on May 11, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPonzi transition.Posted on May 10, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRichard M. Daley: Duff Man.Posted on May 9, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusTrump vs. Osama.Posted on May 7, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's poison.Posted on May 6, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBeachwood goes blue.Posted on May 5, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLiars and cheats.Posted on May 4, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGod floods Illinois; welcomes Osama with virgins.Posted on May 3, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOsama's dead, baby. Osama's dead.Posted on May 2, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy The Weekend Desk B TeamDirty sheets, royalty and miracles.Posted on April 30, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe media's royal miss.Posted on April 29, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFrames and fakers.Posted on April 28, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCatch-up day.Posted on April 27, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's Royal Wedding.Posted on April 26, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesZagel, Blago, Wilco and the Canucks.Posted on April 25, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusPost-election resurrection.Posted on April 23, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesI Can Has Blagojevich Cat.Posted on April 22, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's Partner in Reform.Posted on April 21, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRetrospectable.Posted on April 20, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe late shift.Posted on April 19, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAnother teachable moment whitewashed.Posted on April 18, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha Julius and The Weekend Desk B TeamSequel city.Posted on April 16, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDumbing it down.Posted on April 15, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCovering Blago's pseudo-event.Posted on April 14, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesForeign types with the hookah pipes.Posted on April 13, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhat Jesus would do on the North Shore.Posted on April 12, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Walmart Mayor screws Austin.Posted on April 11, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusDeja non-essential.Posted on April 9, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSex, guns, alcohol, sports and God.Posted on April 8, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesProgramming note.Posted on April 7, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahmfest.Posted on April 6, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMeet Rahm Emanuel's new partners in reform.Posted on April 5, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNot Detroit: We have our own code.Posted on April 4, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusWe've run the numbers. It turns out you're worth $50 a year.Posted on April 2, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDreams deferred.Posted on April 1, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesKhadafy and hot dogs.Posted on March 31, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDeja Daley.Posted on March 30, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLooking factual.Posted on March 29, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Sun-Times can't see beyond its front door.Posted on March 28, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusProduct placement and the NCAA's new math.Posted on March 26, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGetting into Whitney Young.Posted on March 25, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSlap and tickle economics.Posted on March 24, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPinetop and Big Z.Posted on March 23, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBill Daley (D-AT&T) is filthy rich.Posted on March 22, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIllinois goes to Libya.Posted on March 21, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy The Weekend Desk B TeamAnita Alvarez stops making sense.Posted on March 19, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNewz From Da Hood.Posted on March 18, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPolice Chief Charades.Posted on March 17, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe CPD and Vanecko.Posted on March 16, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMayor McGuinness.Posted on March 15, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSecret society.Posted on March 14, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusWould you rather . . . ?Posted on March 12, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesQuinn returns to normal.Posted on March 11, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesObama gets cute with the death penalty.Posted on March 10, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLinking Stroger.Posted on March 9, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGlory delayed but not denied.Posted on March 8, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIt turns out the schools are totally fucked up.Posted on March 7, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusJody Weis Memorial Edition.Posted on March 5, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBeep beep.Posted on March 4, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe unbearable lightness of being Rahm.Posted on March 3, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTeaching Columbia journalism students a real lesson.Posted on March 2, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGeorge Ryan and The Chicago Code.Posted on March 1, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhat the media ignored about Rahm and . . . the media.Posted on February 28, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusOscar Preview Edition.Posted on February 26, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMayors and panhandlers.Posted on February 25, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm's coalition; demonic possession.Posted on February 24, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe enemy is them.Posted on February 23, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe system works just as designed.Posted on February 22, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago, you disgust me.Posted on February 21, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusIn which we contract that rare form of flu that looks exactly like a weekend bender.Posted on February 19, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDeep dish and rape kits.Posted on February 18, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe CPD doesn't care about sexual assault; Pat Quinn doesn't care about the poor.Posted on February 17, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBehind today's headlines.Posted on February 16, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAll of Obama's pieces are in place.Posted on February 15, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Chicago Code drinking game.Posted on February 14, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusJunk vs. Trunk.Posted on February 12, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPoll Finds That 92% Of Chicagoans Lack Enlightened Political Views.Posted on February 11, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAbsolutely Sweet Marie.Posted on February 10, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's secret security state.Posted on February 9, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe news remains the same.Posted on February 8, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGreedy Groupon is no Saturday Night Live.Posted on February 7, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusBen Roethlisberger is not the only unsavory character America has propped up.Posted on February 5, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIt's not The Daley Show until it is.Posted on February 4, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJay Levine's misdirected outrage lets Daley off the hook once again.Posted on February 3, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRapidly deteriorating conditions on the way to Snow Man's Land.Posted on February 2, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSNOMG!Posted on February 1, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCarol Moseley-Braun, Rahm Emanuel both on crack.Posted on January 31, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusSuper Bore Sunday Edition.Posted on January 29, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA zone of facts.Posted on January 28, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAnne Burke has already proven herself disingenuous.Posted on January 27, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIndependent verification, television-style.Posted on January 26, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm seen at Whole Foods buying dead fish, and other plausibly true developments.Posted on January 25, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOn Wisconsin.Posted on January 24, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusHair today, mayor tomorrow.Posted on January 22, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHu and Daley exchange secrets.Posted on January 21, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJimmy John's can suck it. So can Jeff Tweedy. Plus: The Daleys play dumb - again.Posted on January 20, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNo wonder Rahm is attracting so much support; he stinks.Posted on January 19, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMemo to liberals: Take back your party.Posted on January 18, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCommemorative food stamps and race.Posted on January 17, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusWho farted?Posted on January 15, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThere's never an egg timer around when you need one.Posted on January 14, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA lesson for the kids: Attendance doesn't matter in politics.Posted on January 13, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhile we slept, the media made us dumber.Posted on January 12, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm Emanuel's racial politics.Posted on January 11, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNot every nutjob is a product of the right or left.Posted on January 10, 2011 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusSarah Palin vs. Carol Moseley-Braun.Posted on January 8, 2011 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesI should just roll up this website and move on.Posted on January 7, 2011 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMedia choices for early prison release no surprise: White; connected.Posted on January 6, 2011 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe news today is weird, my friends.Posted on January 5, 2011 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesInsuring prompt service.Posted on January 4, 2011 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAnd how was your New Year's Eve?Posted on January 3, 2011 The [New Year's Week] PapersBy Steve RhodesNo politics, just rock.Posted on December 31, 2010 The [New Year's Week] PapersBy Steve RhodesSlouching toward free pool.Posted on December 29, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA coupla Old Styles and some sweet jukebox action.Posted on December 27, 2010 The [Christmas Week] PapersBy Steve RhodesChristmas at the Inn.Posted on December 24, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBob's workshop is abuzz.Posted on December 21, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Olympic fix was in all along.Posted on December 20, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusTime for a World Cup Mayoral Race update.Posted on December 18, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPot, beer and other stocking stuffers.Posted on December 17, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDick Durbin votes for a bill he thinks will harm America. Barack Obama wrote it.Posted on December 16, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPat-downs, shakedowns, hoe-downs and low-downs.Posted on December 15, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAdam West for Mayor. Really.Posted on December 14, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDon't dismiss Carol Moseley-Braun.Posted on December 13, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusIt's the game of the century. Yes we can?Posted on December 11, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesI'm not sure there are any real reformers in Illinois politics, but there sure are a lot of fake ones.Posted on December 10, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDo I like Republicans? No. But unlike Democrats, I'm not sure anyone has any illusions about them.Posted on December 9, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTraitors and treason.Posted on December 8, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBillionaires, books, Obama and crooks.Posted on December 7, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Flying Saucer wins the Renegade Craft Fair and other tales from the weekend involving gingerbread, Simon Cowell, Sears, tasers, exotic birds and the Beachwood jukebox.Posted on December 6, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy The Weekend Desk B TeamRenegade journalism redux.Posted on December 4, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRenegade journalism.Posted on December 3, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNew Trier's war crimes Hall of Famer. Plus, the anti-Rahm and Todd Stroger's last day.Posted on December 2, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNuclear beer is coming to Chicago.Posted on December 1, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe taxicab king Patrick Daley sent and his connection to Team Chico. Plus, the media pretending it doesn't exist.Posted on November 30, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe taxicab king Patrick Daley sent and his connection to Team Chico. Plus, the media pretending it doesn't exist.Posted on November 29, 2010 The [Thanksgiving] PapersBy Steve RhodesGod gave rock and roll to you. Put it in the soul of everyone.Posted on November 24, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe bus of the future is here. Plus, pythons, prostates and muscle cars.Posted on November 23, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPay-to-play even infects the local beer market. Plus, Tom Dart's brother is evil and Rahm Emanuel misses the TIF point.Posted on November 22, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusIt's a brick wall, people.Posted on November 20, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA march of folly.Posted on November 19, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMixing alcohol, caffeine and satire in a can.Posted on November 18, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBroadway Bank, Bristol Palin, Dairy Queen, Four Loko, Tower Records and unicorns in every backyard.Posted on November 17, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Ricketts' are Chicago's Worst Family of the Day. Plus, White Castle is trending.Posted on November 16, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJoe Ricketts detests public spending - except when he wants a handout.Posted on November 15, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy The Weekend Desk B TeamPorn, Lotto, PBR, Bingo, Chuck Berry, Boise State, Heart Valves and Hipsters.Posted on November 13, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSweet tooths and hard truths.Posted on November 12, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAnatomy of a campaign roll-out.Posted on November 11, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGod is against global warming.Posted on November 10, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDenials, delays, destruction and dismay.Posted on November 9, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA mandate for McRib.Posted on November 8, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThe race for Illinois Chess Club president is over; the slightly less socially adept candidate concedes.Posted on November 6, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPlease, no more Manny's Deli, Billy Goat and Oprah.Posted on November 5, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Billy Goat Bogus Beer Summit and other oddities.Posted on November 4, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA new baseline for determining how many tools live in Cook County.Posted on November 3, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBlago's nuts and other Election Day oddities.Posted on November 2, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJury duty.Posted on November 1, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusElectioween 2010.Posted on October 30, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesExactly what the facts is.Posted on October 29, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSix legs bad.Posted on October 28, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDeer tacos, cocaine, fraud and high winds.Posted on October 27, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMmm, Chiclone . . .Posted on October 26, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBring me the head of Jay Cutler, Pat Quinn, Neil Steinberg, Mary Schmich and Sneed.Posted on October 25, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusWikileeks right here at home.Posted on October 23, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFraud, hit men, Oreos and elders.Posted on October 22, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAmoral sexism in corrupt newsrooms.Posted on October 21, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWasting away again in Randy Michaelsville. Plus, Rhymefest runs.Posted on October 20, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe brew situation was totally covered.Posted on October 19, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAlexi's Spotless Mind.Posted on October 18, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusIf you're going to mess up a candidate's name, make sure it results in the appropriate satirical statement.Posted on October 16, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSluts, whores, frauds and phonies.Posted on October 15, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA misdirection play that's working.Posted on October 14, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMore news from Delta Tau Zell.Posted on October 13, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTrade secrets revealed.Posted on October 12, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhat does Gerry Kern know and when did he know it?Posted on October 11, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusShares in Duh skyrocket; klaxons sound.Posted on October 9, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSeparating church, state, Hooter's and reporting.Posted on October 8, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTrib reporters pretend they don't know if Michaels is lying.Posted on October 7, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWorld's Greatest Frat House.Posted on October 6, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe life and times of Rahm Emanuel.Posted on October 5, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesParsing the Rahm Emanuel pseudo-news. Plus, the real Daley is back.Posted on October 4, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusRahm yes, Piven no.Posted on October 2, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRahm Emanuel energizes the mayoral race because so many people loathe him.Posted on October 1, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIf honest was a ballot requirement we'd have nobody to vote for. Featuring Quinn, Brady, Giannoulias and Kirk. Plus, a special appearance by George W. Bush.Posted on September 30, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Bears are ridiculous.Posted on September 29, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Bears, God, Twitter, Egg-Tossing and the real choices you have in November.Posted on September 28, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMy problem is with the leak meme that has taken hold. Let's not repeat it unless or until we know it's true.Posted on September 27, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy The Weekend Desk B TeamZombie Olympic bid returns. Wrigleyville bomber up for Cubs job. Lindsay Lohan update. And more.Posted on September 25, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesElephants, pot, parking meters and the timeless appeal of Paper Lace.Posted on September 24, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOne of the biggest heartbreaks of my life continues to be the lame stupidity of the newsrooms I once aspired to. Plus, another Obama myth exposed.Posted on September 23, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJunior's (alleged) big mistake. Plus, dictators and incompetents.Posted on September 22, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHow do Michael Sneed and the Dave Matthews Band keep their jobs?Posted on September 21, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWaivers, inquiries, omissions and accidents.Posted on September 20, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusChristine O'Donnell defines her terms and the CTA takes ghost hiring to a whole new levelPosted on September 18, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSupport Your Local Beachwood: Drink beer and tip well.Posted on September 17, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFamily businesses: Ponzi schemes, pimps and politics.Posted on September 16, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesI've never been a fan of Weis, but if forced to choose between him and the FOP I'd take Weis eight days a week.Posted on September 15, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesStrings are being pulled as we speak.Posted on September 14, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRichard M. Daley: Legally Blonde.Posted on September 13, 2010 The 2010 Weekend Desk NFL Kickoff ReportBy Natasha JuliusUnstoppable Forces vs. Immovable Objects.Posted on September 11, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe time is nigh.Posted on September 10, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAnd so it begins.Posted on September 9, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesReform is not on the way.Posted on September 8, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTambourines and elephants.Posted on September 7, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusTurns out the Universe is godless, not headless.Posted on September 4, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesContrary to reports, the Illinois corrections executive forced to resign doesn't have a reputation back home in Ohio that is exactly pristine.Posted on September 3, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFrom baseball to crime, reporters can't get their facts straight even as the stats stare them in the face.Posted on September 2, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesForeigners attack us with Pepto-Bismol and lotteries.Posted on September 1, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJeff Tweedy Day! And other delights.Posted on August 31, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe cure for common journalism.Posted on August 30, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusTurns out being trapped underground for four months isn't the healing balm for the human spirit you might expect.Posted on August 28, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesI'll put Beachwood writers up against any wankers in the local media any day of the week - and twice on Friday night.Posted on August 27, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBest reads redux.Posted on August 26, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesToday's best and most interesting reads.Posted on August 25, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSigns of our times.Posted on August 24, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFace it: Some people are stupid, and others learn to be stupid by believing the media.Posted on August 23, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThe Major Lying Bastard season is just getting interesting.Posted on August 21, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWho we briefly thought the holdout juror was. Plus, The Pabst Blue Ribbon Line and Joe The Plumber.Posted on August 20, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe holdout juror and the continued misreading of the law.Posted on August 19, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBlago pundits dream up every possible theory except the obvious one: It was a terrible jury and they got it wrong.Posted on August 18, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesExpediting beer, permits and the Meat-Man Parfait.Posted on August 17, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesReturn from Bizarro Chicago.Posted on August 16, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThe Triumvirate strikes again and Metra goes back to basics.Posted on August 14, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesColor me impressed.Posted on August 13, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMyths about Rosty; speculation about Blago.Posted on August 12, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe gang's all here - Richard M. Daley, Gery Chico, Emil Jones and Desiree Rogers.Posted on August 11, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSpare me Camp Blago and fake exclusives with Sam Adam Jr.; bring me the head of Chandler Bigelow!Posted on August 10, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPat Quinn continues to inspire.Posted on August 9, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThis Report rates a disappointing AAA++.Posted on August 7, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChandler Bigelow pulls through again.Posted on August 6, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCash flow is for closers.Posted on August 5, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFor a news organization to retain credibility, its business operations must be as pristine as its editorial. The papers here have failed that test.Posted on August 4, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe (adolescent) tone at the Trib is set from the top.Posted on August 3, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesClass war.Posted on August 2, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusYou'll never guess who's American royalty. We sure as hell didn't.Posted on July 31, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBill Kurtis and Walter Jacobson have no business being in a newsroom anymore.Posted on July 30, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTrying to reach the jury through their TV sets.Posted on July 29, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhy The Sam Adam Jr. Show Sucks.Posted on July 28, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhatever it takes to win - and get rich.Posted on July 27, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPied pipers - ponytailed and others.Posted on July 26, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusRough week for People futures; Britney Spear's Hermit Kingdom strikes again.Posted on July 24, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOur mayor is a master of details except when it comes to the ones that matter most; then he is curiously absent-minded.Posted on July 23, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOh, but Blago did testify.Posted on July 22, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJim Hendry keeping his job is far more disappointing than Blago not testifying.Posted on July 21, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPitchfork, Comcast, the White Sox and no Papers.Posted on July 20, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIs our city that devoid of civic leadership, courage, honesty, guts?Posted on July 19, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusBP caps, Daley craps, and Steve Jobs apps.Posted on July 17, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEarly warnings and long-term trends.Posted on July 16, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhat I learned from George Steinbrenner.Posted on July 15, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEven Lollapalooza is wired with Daleys.Posted on July 14, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA see-saw press in a see-saw town.Posted on July 13, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJody Weis fails to understand. Daley's hiring hall. Astroturf in the Sun-Times. The heartless Tribune.Posted on July 12, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThe A Team returns from maternity leave to find empty bins, empty promises and the slow transformation of the city's institutions.Posted on July 10, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRod Blagojevich, latex salesman. Plus, Leinie's, LeBron and liquor carts.Posted on July 9, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLindsay Lohan's fingernails rock.Posted on July 8, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPat Quinn gives a raise to the budget director charged with cutting everyone's budgets. And other edifying tales of civic leadership.Posted on July 7, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA taste of the Chicago Way. Plus, how to get a county contract without actually having a business. And, Sneed and Steinberg are idiots.Posted on July 6, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy The Weekend Desk B TeamAll eyes on LeBron James, the Declaration of Independence, and Rod Blagojevich's wardrobe.Posted on July 3, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDaley and Devine still rewriting Burge history.Posted on July 2, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy The Beachwood Canada Day Affairs DeskIncredibly high quality content throughout the site.Posted on July 1, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWalmart mania blinds the Tribune editorial board to its paper's own reporting about Ald. Anthony Beale.Posted on June 30, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIts facile to suggest that ongoing handgun violence in the city proves the ban hasn't worked.Posted on June 29, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe code of silence is in our newsrooms too.Posted on June 28, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy The Weekend Desk B TeamBig Z go boom! And other developing news stories we're following for you this weekend.Posted on June 26, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBurge conviction an even bet. Plus, city hiring, Walmart, and another cop who got away with one.Posted on June 25, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDaley sweetened his own publicity, but didn't do a damn thing for prospective Walmart workers. Plus, today's worst judge in Cook County.Posted on June 24, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMedia mindset: Blago is fun, Burge is boring.Posted on June 23, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFilling in the missing pieces in the Burge and Blago trials.Posted on June 22, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJohn Conroy tells you what the dailies don't about Jon Burge's testimony.Posted on June 21, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy The Weekend Desk B TeamWelcome to the George W. Obama presidency. Plus, Storm Watch 2010!Posted on June 19, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJon Burge's crocodile tears, and the media's incomprehensible lack of basic research skills.Posted on June 18, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJon Burge telling a federal judge he would take the stand made it all the way to page 11 in the Tribune and page 16 in the Sun-Times.Posted on June 17, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHow can a city be captivated by a trial the media is ignoring?Posted on June 16, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhy is this man working for the Cook County State's Attorney's Office?Posted on June 15, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe moral calculus of Jon Burge, museum CEOs, Sinaloa Cowboys, and drinking beer from the Stanley Cup.Posted on June 14, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusWorld Cup fever hits the Weekend Desk.Posted on June 12, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWho knew what when in Burge and Blago - including Obama.Posted on June 11, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Blackhawks are not the biggest news story in Chicago today.Posted on June 10, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe media doesn't care that it's become more apparent than ever that Chicago's political powers knew about Jon Burge. Plus, the Blago trial beat.Posted on June 9, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhat Burge trial? Plus, our greenwashing mayor and bike rack baloney.Posted on June 8, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA profile that leaves out the subject's biggest controversy.Posted on June 7, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusSimulated families, simulated outrage, simulated heart and simulated artistry.Posted on June 5, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAllergic to justice.Posted on June 4, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBurge vs. Blago.Posted on June 3, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJon Burge is finally on trial. Ho-hum.Posted on June 2, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Tribune still has Olympic fever. Plus, saggy pants, Boystown parking mystery, and Daley's devilish fountain.Posted on June 1, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusWe're spicing up your Memorial Day barbecue with gays, tools and impotent rage.Posted on May 29, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJoke amongst yourselves. I'll give you some topics.Posted on May 28, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTorture testimony, Daley's mouth, Roeper's sexism, Stella's stupidity and a jukebox hero.Posted on May 27, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe wet mayor and the slimy governor.Posted on May 26, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesEither Rick Bayless needs to zip it or Lynn Sweet should be fired.Posted on May 25, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDaley's fake regret and false assertions. Plus, It's nice that Greg Hinz can construct an answer to the question that set Daley off, but Hinz isn't the mayor.Posted on May 24, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThe city expands its reach by monitoring bored citizens waiting for late trains while a Poisonous hole threatens our treasured national institutions.Posted on May 22, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHow in the world would firing a round up Mick Dumke's ass show how effective Chicago's gun ban is?Posted on May 21, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDie Speakeasy, die.Posted on May 20, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBetty Loren-Maltese, Conrad Black and Todd Stroger are made for each other. Plus, Rick Bayless gets the silent treatment from the White House.Posted on May 19, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhy won't we see Tony Rezko on the witness stand in the Blago trial? Reporters aren't saying.Posted on May 18, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Tribune is shockingly proud of its ancient antics.Posted on May 17, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusCareful what you wager . . .Posted on May 15, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNow if they could only get rid of that damn ballpark . . .Posted on May 14, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThis is the show.Posted on May 13, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesConnecting Greece to Vancouver to the Olympics to health care reform gives me a headache.Posted on May 12, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesElena Kagan joins the club.Posted on May 11, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLaura Washington's assertions are just plain wrong; Neil Steinberg's assertions are just plain wacky.Posted on May 10, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportThe Beachwood Weekend Desk "B" TeamYouAreSoVeryFucked.com.Posted on May 8, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOur contributors kick ass.Posted on May 7, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesToday's Worst Person in Chicago nominees: Carrie Austin, Willie Cochran, John Pope, Michael Madigan, Lisa Madigan and Steve Brown.Posted on May 6, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Walmart whitewash blackout continues. Plus, Ed Burke: Just like us.Posted on May 5, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLuis Gutierrez is on the griddle.Posted on May 4, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Cubs and the White House maintenance staff.Posted on May 3, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusDon your goofiest hat and pull up a couple of mint juleps, it's time to watch exploited workers labor in intolerable conditions.Posted on May 1, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesReporters too often forget to question the basic premise, moving instead to dueling "reactions" without considering the story's facts in the first place.Posted on April 30, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIt must have been Plain Shots of Water Night at the Martini Ranch. Plus, who is Judge Thomas Gainer Jr.?Posted on April 29, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA "conspiracy" doesn't need time to gel when it's just the way things are done. Plus, the White House press corps starts to catch on.Posted on April 28, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRichard M. Daley's new Route 66. Rich Miller checks Neil Steinberg. And a Killer Kaption Kontest.Posted on April 27, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCalling in the National Guard to quell violence on Chicago's streets not the stuff that Governor Gumby is made of, and King Richard II has ridiculed the idea in the past.Posted on April 26, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusBlagojevich defense attorneys were said to be mulling a subpoena of Denver Broncos head coach Josh McDanielsPosted on April 24, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesReporters covering Obama are the kings of the caveats.Posted on April 23, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDon't think it can't happen here.Posted on April 22, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJesus dolls and waffle fries.Posted on April 21, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSnitches and sportsmanship.Posted on April 20, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS blames the dead guy - but don't quote us on that!Posted on April 19, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusBacon wrapped in fried chicken is totally good for you. Larry King, volcanic ash and Ben Roethlisberger, not so much.Posted on April 17, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesA local news blackout of David Remnick's new book about Obama and Facebook as a primary news source.Posted on April 16, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDeja vu all over again on Chicago Tonight. Is every night a rerun?Posted on April 15, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe curious case of the vice mayor and other Chicago oddities.Posted on April 14, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe consequences of friendship journalism.Posted on April 13, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAlexi is practicing choking up at just the right moments as we speak.Posted on April 12, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusCredit might be given where credit is possibly due.Posted on April 10, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSuddenly, CPS is showing Ben Joravsky the love - though not necessarily the facts.Posted on April 9, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhat Joravsky did shouldn't have been extraordinary, but in this town it was: He read the budget. Plus, the media-burnished images of Ron Huberman and Forrest Claypool.Posted on April 8, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe creature known as Betty Loren-Maltese-Sneed-Kavanagh. Plus, the disingenuousness of Forrest Claypool's new campaign.Posted on April 7, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBaseball does teach us lessons. Sometimes the wrong ones.Posted on April 6, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesProudly presenting the best piece of sportswriting in the nation today.Posted on April 5, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusProbing the intersection of joblessness and mindlessness.Posted on April 3, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesApril Fools (so far): Blago, Huberman, Roeper, Santo, and the Tribune.Posted on April 2, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe old business models are the new ones.Posted on April 1, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesReal life parents vs. fabulously wealthy media animatrons.Posted on March 31, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe mayor's $4 million mistake. And the inevitable upturn in online advertising.Posted on March 30, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe absolute horrors of Jim Warren, Sheila Simon, Richard Roeper and Arne Duncan. Where do they come from?Posted on March 29, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusWith a gold medal, a vat of pomade and a controversial lack of substance, what could possibly be next for Evan Lysacek?Posted on March 27, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe cynical use of Paul Simon's name. Plus, As The Clout List Turns.Posted on March 26, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesIf Daley doesn't think anything was wrong with the lobbying, why would it have been wrong for him to know about it?Posted on March 25, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDaley and Duncan dissemble on the CPS clout list.Posted on March 24, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNo one ever should have felt like a call from the CEO's office about a politically connected student whose name appeared on a secret list constituted pressure in any way!Posted on March 23, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNobody knows nuttin' in this town. Until they have to know sumptin'.Posted on March 22, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusAmong this week's economic casualties: Spring, horny teenagers and our dignity.Posted on March 20, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPurists is the word editorialists always spit out to describe people who think there are more important things in life than money.Posted on March 19, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSupport for health care reform but disgust with the legislation before us is indeed bipartisan.Posted on March 18, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesJobs for Zombies and the coming Zombie Apocalypse.Posted on March 17, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesNew faces at the city's Department of Aldermen. Plus, newspapers are not the same thing as news.Posted on March 16, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAnd that's what the Grateful Dead, LA Ink, the newspaper industry and Toyota have to do with each otherPosted on March 15, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy The Weekend Desk B TeamGreece, Toyota, Milton Bradley and fat drinkers.Posted on March 13, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLuis Gutierrez may not have done anything illegal, but he certainly did something - several things - wholly unethical.Posted on March 12, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesQuinn's budget: Dead On Arrival? More like Dead On Departure.Posted on March 11, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGoogle's journalism.Posted on March 10, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe city council's Friends & Family Plan. The Harvey Mayor's Me & Me Plan. And, it takes a liar to know one, starring Guess Who.Posted on March 9, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesAxelrod under fire. Luis Gutierrez's family plan. And the thieves at NBCChicago.com.Posted on March 8, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThe Oscar predictions yield some strange and sinister results.Posted on March 6, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLady Liberty Lives!Posted on March 5, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe various ways that Bon Scott, Brian Johnson and Milwaukee rule.Posted on March 4, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesGlobal stupidity, the Sun-Times's short tail and how Daley controls contracts.Posted on March 3, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesFast Johnny Cullerton. Slow Jackie Higgins.Posted on March 2, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesVancouver's Olympics go bust. Fast Johnny Cullerton. More parking meter madness. And the EPA's secret chocolate documents finally revealed.Posted on March 1, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusRon Huberman goes green for Chicago.Posted on February 27, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSnow jobs.Posted on February 26, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesKabuki Health Care Theater. Plus, the profiles of discouragement called John Cullerton and Michael Madigan.Posted on February 25, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPitchforks against Cullerton. Health care nonsense at the Sun-Times. Sting's Tyranny. And Tommy Boy meets Big Z.Posted on February 24, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHelpless, feckless, powerless newsfolk. Plus, E. Duke McNeil, a teen sex urban legend, The Mysteries of Curling, and Psychedelic Velveeta.Posted on February 23, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesRefusing to show someone your Super 8 VIP card: Priceless.Posted on February 22, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusWho needs the Olympics when we have the massive failure of regional transit to embarrass us?Posted on February 20, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWork Weirdos and Santa Margaritaville.Posted on February 19, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesYour dumb, secret government. Your dumb media. Plus, calling Dr. Drew!Posted on February 18, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOur secret senate. Plus, Thurston Moore is a bore and the Goldwater Institute takes on the Cubs.Posted on February 17, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesTribune vs. Toyota. Toyota vs. Obama.Posted on February 16, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Burkes do it again. Jason the Plummer. The prison chief's past.Posted on February 15, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusYears later, Blago is still making your money work for him.Posted on February 13, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDaley's re-election bid on? More Madigan malarkey. And a must-see plea to save the newspaper.Posted on February 12, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesLite guv sophistry. Bill Kurtis Blows. Jack Higgins Sucks.Posted on February 11, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe ground shook.Posted on February 10, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesSliming Cohen; deferring to Madigan.Posted on February 9, 2010 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Scott Lee Cohen saga exposes the rank hypocrisy of our media and political elites.Posted on February 8, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusWe'd rather be waterboarded than sit through another Doomsday season.Posted on February 6, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Green Line Panhandler, Daley's World, Alexi's Dream and Capone.Posted on February 5, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBroadway broadsides and the Pat Bush administration.Posted on February 4, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDepressing the voters.Posted on February 3, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesBallot bollocks and the Carothers case.Posted on February 2, 2010 The [Monday] PapersQuinn on wrong side of history. Plus, Fast Eddie, Fast Nick and TV News 101.Posted on February 1, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThe pageantry of the Pro Bowl can't mask the unmistakable gloom of Super Bore Sunday.Posted on January 30, 2010 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesQuinn's race card. Statues of limitation. Alexi's evasions.Posted on January 29, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPat Quinn, money launderer. Plus, the John Kerry presidency.Posted on January 28, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesPat Quinn, master banker.Posted on January 27, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersPat Quinn is a classless schmuck.Posted on January 26, 2010 The [Monday] PapersArrogance and ignorance starring Bernie Lincicome, Monique Davis, Michael Madigan, Pat Quinn, Michael Scott and Rufus Williams, Plus, Ironside and the Scorpions.Posted on January 25, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportTodd Stroger announces plans to fire 90% of the voting public.Posted on January 23, 2010 The [Friday] PapersThe most devastating political ad I've ever seen. Plus, the foibles of Daley's many cronies.Posted on January 22, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersThe Madigan Rules.Posted on January 21, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersThe Massachusetts Miracle. Plus, Quinn vs. Hynes.Posted on January 20, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersTerry O'Brien sucks. So does Illinois' stimulus. Daley's un-worldview. AT&T's hooks. And the Girls on the Wall.Posted on January 19, 2010 The [Monday] PapersExporting Chicago's failed schools turnaround to the rest of the nation. Plus, Gov. Fester.Posted on January 18, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportJust remember, Doomsday's dealing with the same delays you are.Posted on January 16, 2010 The [Friday] PapersMark Grace's balls. Pat Quinn's delusions. Richard Daley's hypocrisy. Jersey Shore comes to Chicago. Popeye's. Susan Boyle (SuBo).Posted on January 15, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersThe state of the state is stupid.Posted on January 14, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersThe brothers Burke. The monster Madigan. And a Beachwood mind meld.Posted on January 13, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersRacist crocodile tears. McGwire's expediency. David Hoffman's connection. Kirk Dillard's dopiness. And Rahm, Richie and Metallica.Posted on January 12, 2010 The [Monday] PapersThe China Syndrome. Plus, more Stroger madness, the mayor's major mental malfunctions and a very special Neko Case.Posted on January 11, 2010 The Weekend Desk ReportFootball dominates the Weekend Desk and the nation's economic recovery.Posted on January 9, 2010 The [Friday] PapersThe Hawk and the Preacher. Plus, Robbie Fulks now.Posted on January 8, 2010 The [Thursday] PapersA lover scorned makes for phenomenal blogging. Plus, Stroger's latest bumble and a Beachwood bow to Andre Dawson.Posted on January 7, 2010 The [Wednesday] PapersThe cost of the Henry Louis Gates distraction.Posted on January 6, 2010 The [Tuesday] PapersApprentice Blago. Phony Quinn. More bad people killing our diners.Posted on January 5, 2010 The [Monday] PapersMix tapes of the decade, Bears madness, McPier gouging, police metrics and Cutler crap.Posted on January 4, 2010 The [New Year's] PapersStay funny, my friends.Posted on December 31, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersCancer, cops, martians and Martin.Posted on December 30, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersAndy Martin teams up with Neil Steinberg. Plus, The Roland Burris Show and how 'bout those Bears.Posted on December 29, 2009 The [Monday] PapersTommy James, Porky's, outwitting Facebook, checkbook journalism and Vic Chesnutt.Posted on December 28, 2009 The [Christmas] PapersA Beachwood Christmas.Posted on December 24, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersBeing Dorothy Brown and a Twisted Christmas.Posted on December 23, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersSanta's got the swine. So does NBC and TribCo. Plus, the county candidates have their say.Posted on December 22, 2009 The [Monday] PapersNBC buried stories about Randy Michaels and Michael Scott.Posted on December 21, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportTime to look at the stories that might catch our roving eye in 2010.Posted on December 19, 2009 The [Friday] PapersDaley puts his foot down - on someone's head. Plus, the Detroit Cobras.Posted on December 18, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersEmil Jones back in action. World's worst best legislator. Michael Scott's shady business affairs. And what was really on Blago's stolen computers.Posted on December 17, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersOf horse mullets and firing squads.Posted on December 16, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersDanny Solis is today's Worst Person In Chicago. Plus, Kobe Bryant, Lovie Smith and the Flaming Lips.Posted on December 15, 2009 The [Monday] PapersPiss, vinegar and chili.Posted on December 14, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportReports from Beachwood desks far and wide.Posted on December 12, 2009 The [Friday] PapersFrozen facts.Posted on December 11, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersTwits of the Week. Google Labs. Abe Lincoln vs. Rich Miller. About Alexi.Posted on December 10, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersRod the Jester. The Terry O'Brien Show. Morrissey's move. And plenty of Daley.Posted on December 9, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersDaley's property relief scam. The Redwood Lounge. Durbin To Bloggers: Drop Dead. And ComEd's coming after you.Posted on December 8, 2009 The [Monday] PapersAbu Dhabi is writing your parking tickets. Daley sees no evil. The Desiree Rogers Show. Dog The Bounty Hunter and Jon Stewart.Posted on December 7, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportSure, it's the same old troop-surge strategy. But it sounds so much more freakin' awesome now.Posted on December 5, 2009 The [Friday] PapersRoland Hedley. Desiree Rogers. Mister Ed.Posted on December 4, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersLife is too boring and complicated for newspaper editors. Plus, Pat Quinn as Todd Stroger. The Wilco loft. Ron Artest is Nuts. And the Trib's shock jock CEO.Posted on December 3, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersA lot of old Russian generals are having a big laugh today.Posted on December 2, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersFighting the last war. Our right to know about Tiger Woods. Inside Barbara's Bookstore. The Jesus Lizard. The CTA Holiday Train. No Charlie Weis.Posted on December 1, 2009 The [Monday] PapersOur mayor is a serial liar.Posted on November 30, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportBlack Saturday.Posted on November 28, 2009 The [Friday] PapersLong live rock - be it dead or alive. Plus, the intervention brothers and the great chicken wing shortage.Posted on November 27, 2009 The [Thanksgiving] PapersTurkey Day's Turkey of the Day.Posted on November 26, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersTerror cells. Travel ethics. Mr. Ed. Grilled Cheese. Angelina Jolie. Daley's big Oprah joke. Saving Jay Cutler. And hamster hell.Posted on November 25, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersSigns of the times.Posted on November 24, 2009 The [Monday] PapersPearls before swine.Posted on November 23, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportWhy Land of the Lost beats the hell out of your morning commutePosted on November 21, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersMisery.Posted on November 18, 2009 The [Monday] PapersThe flu comes to Beachwood HQ.Posted on November 16, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportIs CBS poised to pull off the most brazen cross-promotional coup in Super Bowl history?Posted on November 14, 2009 The [Friday] PapersCity lawyer says corruption no longer exists. Jim Ryan in denial. Jay Cutler intercepted. And Lovie Smith's next job.Posted on November 13, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersNano mania in Skokie. McGovern for President. Bike baloney. Hangovers. And Mr. Stinky.Posted on November 12, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersOptimizing for Daley.Posted on November 11, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersIndependent police authorities, magnet schools, and Danny Davis.Posted on November 10, 2009 The [Monday] PapersThe Bears' worst brings out sportswriters' best.Posted on November 9, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportThe 10.2% solution.Posted on November 7, 2009 The [Friday] Papers11-digit dialing on a digital world. Plus, CPS breakfasts and a Beachwood celebration.Posted on November 6, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersThe Beachwood is a winner.Posted on November 5, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersAir Daley. The Stimulus Sham. Return of the Living Hack. The New Block 37.Posted on November 4, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersMSM Madness! Plus, Jesus, Jay Cutler and drunkards.Posted on November 3, 2009 The [Monday] PapersJay Cutler, Mark McGwire, Dick Cheney, Cheap Trick, Marvin Gaye, Mike Flannery, the MacArthur Foundation and heads exploding.Posted on November 2, 2009 The [Halloween] Desk ReportThe objective is clear: win every Halloween party you attend.Posted on October 31, 2009 The [Friday] PapersThe silver bullet to all our problems - and it's not alcohol.Posted on October 30, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersApparently there's no success like failure in Chicago's media world.Posted on October 29, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersMake no mistake: These property tax bills belong to Daley.Posted on October 28, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersThe Oh For Godsakes! Files.Posted on October 27, 2009 The [Monday] PapersParing the city payroll is not the answer. Neither is Lovie Smith or wallyball.Posted on October 26, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportGone drinkin'.Posted on October 24, 2009 The [Friday] PapersZombie journalists and melba toast packin'.Posted on October 23, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersSave Ooga Booga.Posted on October 22, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersThe dominos fall on Blago. Plus, Herman Munster.Posted on October 21, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersWilco, Bugs Bunny, Michael Madigan, John Cullerton, Tom Tresser and the crappy Big Ten.Posted on October 20, 2009 The [Monday] PapersCeaseFire: The new DARE. Plus, Ofman and Coffman on the Bears. And the shadow governments revealed by clout lists.Posted on October 19, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportThe dominoes keep falling from Obama's shocking Nobel Prize win.Posted on October 17, 2009 The [Friday] PapersMore clout lists in Nerf America.Posted on October 16, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersPlotting Michael Madigan's departure.Posted on October 15, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersBefore Fenger, there was Collins, Plus, Google's Chicago HQ.Posted on October 14, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesDylan's awesome Christmas. Separating church from state. Fighting viilains.Posted on October 13, 2009 The [Monday] PapersKyle Orton, Joel Qunneville, Richard M. Daley, Todd Stroger, Danny Davis, and how one of our writers became a security guard.Posted on October 12, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportA Nobel nomination written in crayon.Posted on October 10, 2009 The [Friday] PapersWorst Nobel Ever. Journalism for Dummies. Ethics for Dummies. Dummies.Posted on October 9, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersStella's solution. Stimulus hijinks. Another Daley schlub.Posted on October 8, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersYouth violence is not a disease, despite what the media tells you.Posted on October 7, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersThe Cubs' comfort zone and the Silly Olympics.Posted on October 6, 2009 The [Monday] PapersThe bid is over but the games go on.Posted on October 5, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportPele trumps Oprah.Posted on October 3, 2009 The [Friday] PapersYou're either for the Billy Decs (and Eric Zorns and John Williamses and Valerie Jarretts) of the world or you're against them.Posted on October 2, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersIf Chicago gets the Olympics, do the terrorists win?Posted on October 1, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersMichelle Obama says she'll tell the IOC how Chicago works. If only!Posted on September 30, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersTV station: Olympic reporter has right to be proud!Posted on September 29, 2009 The [Monday] PapersI don't have a Ph.D in Economics like our major columnists apparently do, but I do have something they don't: A familiarity with the data.Posted on September 28, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportThings aren't looking good for the world's foremost celebrity dictatorship troika.Posted on September 26, 2009 The [Friday] PapersOlympic projections blown out of the water.Posted on September 25, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersThe Magic Olympics: Is there nothing they can't do? Plus, schoolkids ask the mayor to stop lying.Posted on September 24, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersDoes that Olympic insurance cover journalistic malpractice?Posted on September 23, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersOlympic insurance inanity. Red light revenge. The Milton Bradley files. Jordan, Blago, Swayze. And Betty Loren-Maltese's double agents are back.Posted on September 22, 2009 The [Monday] PapersThe local media have covered Chicago's Olympic bid in reverse.Posted on September 21, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportRajoelina is on the move again.Posted on September 19, 2009 The [Friday] PapersPatti Blago. alien. The mystery of Obama's Olympics. Toast-Terror. And Fake Plastic Dirt.Posted on September 18, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersWhat Jimmy Kimmel should have said to Blago. Plus, the Daley White House. And, Swine Clout.Posted on September 17, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersWeasels and cockroaches.Posted on September 16, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersBeachwood business and the Future of Newspapers.Posted on September 15, 2009 The [Monday] PapersPension follies and horse hockey.Posted on September 14, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportOur definitive guide to Kickoff '09.Posted on September 12, 2009 The [Friday] PapersBeer is good, beer is wise. A Beachwood special.Posted on September 11, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersThe city council isn't the only rubber stamp in this town.Posted on September 10, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersOlympic madness strikes Mark Brown. Efforts to cure with facts underway.Posted on September 9, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersSun-Times columnists don't do their homework.Posted on September 8, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportWe first became aware of the loss of essence, Mandrake, during the physical act of love.Posted on September 5, 2009 The [Friday] PapersOprah's non-event. Billy Dec pounds sushi, Olympics. Deborah Sims is stupid. Sam Zell lives. And Quinn's trustees.Posted on September 4, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersLori Healey faced. Paper Tigers. The Oprah Effect. Dan Hynes 2.0. And meet Dr. Dude.Posted on September 3, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersNeed to pipe in some PR to the Sun-Times? There are apps for that. Plus, continuing Olympic media ignorance.Posted on September 2, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersAnne Kavanagh aids and abets. Multiple Olympic recipes for disaster. Rickey Hendon U. And horses, geeks and weirdos on a channel near you.Posted on September 1, 2009 The [Monday] PapersBetty Loren-Maltese's chauffeur. Neil Steinberg's cultural illiteracy. Barrington's chocolate milk. And the domination of Beachwood Sports.Posted on August 31, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportApps and robbers.Posted on August 29, 2009 The [Friday] PapersOlympic illiteracy. The Fawell Affair. Governor Gumby. Patrick Kane regrets. Moonshine Willy. And bear-watching.Posted on August 28, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersMilton Bradley, David Hoffman, ramen and mannequins.Posted on August 27, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersThe despicable Richard M. Daley. Plus, the teenage face of the CPS scandal.Posted on August 26, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersWhitney Young: Clout Central. Plus, Zorn's with Hynes and more Olympic lies.Posted on August 25, 2009 The [Monday] PapersDeath panels, Blago's dirty air, Daschle's a douchebag, Olympic bid fading and a bulging sports section.Posted on August 24, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportTori Amos, Valerie Harper and Lisa Madigan together again. Plus, the Ricketts quandary.Posted on August 22, 2009 The [Friday] PapersHealth care debate: bullshit meets bullshit. Plus, Pat Quinn Radio and the Bottle Rockets.Posted on August 21, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersKickin' it with Billy Dec, Sheryl Crow, Patrick Kane, Richard Roeper, Chris Kennedy, Pat Quinn, Rick Bayless and Melissa Bean.Posted on August 20, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersBilly Dec is a dick. Plus, the Trib's new editorial cartoonist. And, an ultimatum for the Trib's edit page.Posted on August 19, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersDurbin did it too. Plus, how to report on stupid people.Posted on August 18, 2009 The [Monday] PapersThe CPS clout scandal goes back at least 20 years. Plus, Happy Freakin' Furlough Day!Posted on August 17, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportThe world wakes to the terror of Rajoelina.Posted on August 15, 2009 The [Friday] PapersKicking Zell to the curb. Obama discovers bribery. Les Paul leaves us better than he found us.Posted on August 14, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersFurther lessons in defining change down.Posted on August 13, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersBaby Boomer editors and their anniversary math.Posted on August 12, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersTulsa rocks!Posted on August 11, 2009 The [Monday] PapersLollapalooza review, Penthouse TV, Carlos Zambrano's diaper.Posted on August 10, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportBritney Spears and Jody Weis, together again.Posted on August 8, 2009 The [Friday] PapersMichael Scott, the mayor's man. Plus, an homage to The Breakfast Club.Posted on August 7, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersToday's best.Posted on August 6, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersTaco Bell, Walmart, Wicker Park, Arne Duncan, Carrotmob, prosecutors acting badly, and a University of Illinois trustee (D-Chicago) who plainly doesn't get it.Posted on August 5, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersCash for Clunkers. Walmart for Weasels.Posted on August 4, 2009 The [Monday] PapersMysterious crime stats. The other side of the Peavy trade. Duncan's Dunkirk. A Blair Hull sighting. Port Blago.Posted on August 3, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportWe put our asses on the line for this one. Literally.Posted on August 1, 2009 The [Friday] PapersBeer summit bullshit. Ab Mikva's challenge. Urlacher vs. Cutler. Schmich vs. common sense. Budget baloney.Posted on July 31, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersObama's beer summit - and his health care cave-in.Posted on July 30, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersDear Obama: Chicagoans break. Plus, Tony Cole, Richard M. Daley, Ted Lilly, and Earth, Wind & Fire.Posted on July 29, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersClout U lacking party skills. Plus, church not separated by state; Blago's book; Daley's new tool; and Yellow Brick Wrigley.Posted on July 28, 2009 The [Monday] PapersMark Buehrle, Frank McCourt, Arlo Guthrie, Blago's book, The Baffler and ComEd.Posted on July 27, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportObama acted stupidly. Plus, the best texts from last night.Posted on July 25, 2009 The [Friday] PapersDrugs, gambling, Neko Case, Grand Ole Opry, trash-talkin' Olympic president.Posted on July 24, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersPot, Daley, Ligue, Boeing, Parque, Stella, McCourt, clout run amok, Notre Dame, red lights and banking gone wild.Posted on July 23, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersThe Daley Show resumes. Plus, Kennedy, Cicero, Hancock and Sunstein.Posted on July 22, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersThe real enemy of health care reform.Posted on July 21, 2009 The [Monday] PapersCink blows it. Sachs blows it. Obama blows it. The CTA blows it. The Hawks blow it. The Sox will blow it. Pitchfork rules.Posted on July 20, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportWe're not stupid like Cubs fans. We know the economy's [bleep].Posted on July 18, 2009 The [Friday] PapersPitchfork's greatest hits. Obama loses his cool. And librarians meet in Chicago to shelve books and fuck like wild rabbits.Posted on July 17, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersAndy Shaw's BGA. Willis's Tower. King Quinn. Roeper is the man. Damon is the informant. Porch collapses. Jesus Lizard and Ed Burke live.Posted on July 16, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersVideo poker, tattoos and Tom Tunney. What a night!Posted on July 15, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersThe South Side may be the worst place in Illinois to be buried. Plus, red-light mania and behind the decline of investigative journalism.Posted on July 14, 2009 The [Monday] PapersCubs grub, Whoopi's ship, red light running and data storage in Chicago.Posted on July 13, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportFuneral duty for pop stars, pop icons, pop presidents, a popped economy, and a pop logo.Posted on July 11, 2009 The [Friday] PapersDaley's out of ideas. But we're not. Plus, The Chicago Coincidence. Exene Cervenka. The Non-Mystery of Milton Bradley. Soriano and Sosa. More Olympic lies. And guest Beachwood bartending.Posted on July 10, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersConnecting the dots between Jon Burge and the University of Illinois's law school.Posted on July 9, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersMadigan staying put.Posted on July 8, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersA law school with a broken ethical compass.Posted on July 7, 2009 The [Monday] PapersAccess remains overrated. Plus, the blogosphere reports far more Taste of Chicago violence than official outlets.Posted on July 6, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportJust how free are we?Posted on July 4, 2009 The [Friday] PapersThe Wisconsin boondoggle of Public Enemies. Still more parking meter madness. Still more U of I clout madness. And ATM fee revenge.Posted on July 3, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersKarl Malden. The Wesley Willis ledge. Public Enemies. And the amazing Stella Foster.Posted on July 2, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersThe truth about Arne Duncan and Chicago school reform. Plus, flying drumsticks in Wrigleyville.Posted on July 1, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersStella Foster: Bad, Dangerous and Off The Wall.Posted on June 30, 2009 The [Monday] PapersBilly Mays. The moonwalk. The Milton Bradley leak. CPS turnover. Release from dreams.Posted on June 29, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportWell, at least we're not living in Iran, Zimbabwe, or Detroit.Posted on June 27, 2009 The [Friday] PapersOff The Wall vs. Thriller.Posted on June 26, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersRe-enacting the news.Posted on June 25, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersAbbate outrage is overblown while the real outrage is virtually ignored.Posted on June 24, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersMilkshakes and square dancing.Posted on June 23, 2009 The [Monday] PapersUNO the new HDO? Nonsense from Rick Morrissey and Chris Lauzen. Lauren Conrad and Lisa Madigan.Posted on June 22, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportAn unprecedented number of cheap and easy jokes flood the Change market.Posted on June 20, 2009 The [Friday] PapersHard-won Olympic truths. And ribs.Posted on June 19, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersWhat did the mayor just do? That depends on who - and how - you read.Posted on June 18, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersWhat Sammy Sosa, Richard M. Daley, a Chicago-based hedge fund director, Jeremiah Wright, the cops of '68 and Karl Rove have in common.Posted on June 17, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersDaley conspiracy theory - with photographic evidence!Posted on June 16, 2009 The [Monday] PapersTwinkies, Cubs, Roger Corman, the Baldwins, Daley's escape, rape kits and echo chambers.Posted on June 15, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportGuess what? Turns out your dog doesn't have a guilty face. Science just proved it.Posted on June 13, 2009 The [Friday] PapersDaley knew. So did B. Joseph White.Posted on June 12, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersOpinion writing.Posted on June 11, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersRichie Daley cries us a river.Posted on June 10, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersFree the lakeshore. Al Capone slept here. Money changes everything, including justice.Posted on June 9, 2009 The [Monday] PapersThe taxpayer-subsidized new owner of the Sears Tower wants you to call it The Big Willie. Seriously.Posted on June 8, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportIt's fantasy corruption league time again.Posted on June 6, 2009 The [Friday] PapersThe Beachwood kicks ass.Posted on June 5, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersKoko Taylor, Wrigley Field, and what's wrong with the Democrats.Posted on June 4, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersParking meter money madness.Posted on June 3, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersThe University of Illinois will form a task force to study its clout list. Seriously.Posted on June 2, 2009 The [Monday] PapersSpringfield, Sotomayor, and The Salad Bar Series.Posted on June 1, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportKim Jong Il won't rest until he vanquishes that adorable little Hollie Steel.Posted on May 30, 2009 The [Friday] PapersSubversive beer cans. U of I clout list. Indicting Ike. The politics of pot.Posted on May 29, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersAnother alderman biting the dust? Plus, the fiction of Roland Burris.Posted on May 28, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersIdeology is inherently intellectually dishonest. Plus, Jim Hendry's evil ways and Today's Worst Person in Illinois.Posted on May 27, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersIllinois politics? There's an app for that. Plus, pot, slumpbusting, Ed Burke, Roland Burris, and Jay Bennett's "Pieholden Suite."Posted on May 26, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportWe warned you about long-delayed sequels, but did you listen?Posted on May 23, 2009 The [Friday] PapersVideo poker, pot and Giggity Google,Posted on May 22, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersGamble and drink, please! Plus, Meter Mofos, Kiddieland, and The Rod & Patti Show.Posted on May 21, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersGreat Moments In Cook County Board History. Plus, graffiti, tsunamis, newspaper whiners, crashing condos, Mach 6 and the Carbon Cruiser.Posted on May 20, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersJerry Springer and Chicago's Worst Cop.Posted on May 19, 2009 The [Monday] PapersBlackhawks, parking meters, Madigan Electric, Musket Man, ChicagoMachine.com, and the vintage drum show.Posted on May 18, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportDetroit is a bone-thin city strapped to the bloated carcass of a dead industry.Posted on May 16, 2009 The [Friday] PapersBucky, the Cubs, the Dead and the Beachwood.Posted on May 15, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersBeing Bucky Badger. White Collar Whiteout. TIF Spliff. Cable Fable. Millennium Spark. City Council Crumbs. Olympic Backhand. And Tweeting Billy Corgan.Posted on May 14, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersThe Inaccessible CTA. Todd and Tribune's tax troubles. Twitter flitter. The legendary Zodak Yonan. And who is Chris Kennedy?Posted on May 13, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersMiss Illinois and Playboy. Supreme Court picks. An Olympic proposition. Obama's Ethics. Stroger's vote-counting. And Burris's learning curve.Posted on May 12, 2009 The [Monday] PapersCinco De Porno. Anne Burke. Coffee Wars. Lewis Bizarre. Ray LaHood. Todd Stroger. Alan Keyes. Not Another Detroit. And A Murder of Tulips.Posted on May 11, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportChicago 2060: marathon lawyering, synchronized ticketing, and second-generation fame-whoring.Posted on May 9, 2009 The [Friday] PapersJohn Doe, Elizabeth Edwards, Tony Peraica, Willie Nelson, and Today's Worst Person In Chicago.Posted on May 8, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersEulogies to Leon Despres are nice, but where has everybody been? Plus, honey-laundering and broken elevator inspections.Posted on May 7, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersTorture, Paul Blart, Crestwood, pedophiles. yo-yo kings, Wilco, Devin Hester, and a Beachwood secret.Posted on May 6, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersSave the Kid Cop! Plus, Alexi's car; Durbin's nutty Supreme Court idea; Arne Duncan's hypocrisy; Chicago Fatigue; and the Fire are en fuego.Posted on May 5, 2009 The [Monday] PapersDaley's secret government.Posted on May 4, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportThe Hamdemic may be fading, but at least one rogue is still on the rise.Posted on May 2, 2009 The [Friday] PapersBeachwood Derby Betting Guide. Blago's Rape Kits. Muscle Cars. Krusty Brockman. And The Detroit Cobras.Posted on May 1, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersSwine flu flotsam. Media hysteria about Twitter. Playboy, bunnies, brothels and Blago. And fightin' words.Posted on April 30, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersAdvice to unemployed journalists, the mayor, Whole Foods, Democrats, Firebird fans and fantasy baseballers. Plus, rappin' Vince Shlomo and Killing The Spilotros.Posted on April 29, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersMourning the Trans Am, the Firebird and the GTO. Plus, the Tony Cole saga gets worse; Bea Arthur is dead; AOL is hiring journalists; Meet The Spilotros; Slouching Toward Indy; and our version of reform.Posted on April 28, 2009 The [Monday] PapersTwit of the Week: Neil Steinberg. But he's not alone.Posted on April 27, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportTokyo's shocking anti-bird stance and the hidden benefits of patriarchal oppression.Posted on April 25, 2009 The [Friday] PapersStick-ups on the CTA, Miss California, Tribune morale, Bill Daley, EbertFest, and Ha Ha Tonka.Posted on April 24, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersPete Wentz, the Olympics, Rahm vs. Quigley.Posted on April 23, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersMcRib, David Simon, Blago, garbage cart fraud, and feminist waves.Posted on April 22, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersTodd Stroger reaches new lows. So do the Pulitzers. Plus, our brand of anti-journalism.Posted on April 21, 2009 The [Monday] PapersHow and why the media endlessly repeats myths instead of reporting their falsity. Plus, a good time to be a Chicago sports fan. And Crestwood's criminal water contamination.Posted on April 20, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportTorture at home and abroad. Plus, Todd Stroger, the woman-hating busboy, and your money.Posted on April 18, 2009 The [Friday] PapersBeat realignment, Steve Albini and party planning.Posted on April 17, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersWhy you shouldn't live in Edison Park. Plus, Sam Zell, Todd Stroger, Jay Levine, Pimp King Daddy, Blago's legal reality, Nelson Muntz, and Joe Cari.Posted on April 16, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersPuncturing Duncan Fever. Plus, sexting, Neko Case, Mayor Muntz, and the Beachwood throws a party.Posted on April 15, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersLinks serve citizens.Posted on April 14, 2009 The [Monday] PapersCubs, Sox, Blackhawks, the future of Chicago media, Arne Duncan Fever, Jesse Junior G-Man, Marilyn Katz, the Olympic Shuffle, Amy Sedars, Dennis Hastert, Quigley, the Dead, Desiree Rogers and the new Apple store.Posted on April 13, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportSix-Party Flops and TB-Jeebies, y'all.Posted on April 11, 2009 The [Friday] PapersAP equals Absolute Pinheads. ESPNChicago.com set to debut. Lew Lazare's Olympic bullshit. Top Ten Jays In Sports. And Caraoke at the Chicago Auto Show.Posted on April 10, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersUnmasking The Parking Ticket Geek. Hating on Comcast. Daley on corruption. Zell refuses comment. The IOC moves on.Posted on April 9, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersChicago Bid "Strong" Just Like Others. Airport wars. Daley's mental health.Posted on April 8, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersNewspapers act as if they don't exploit other people's work for revenue. Oprah, anyone? Plus, Opening Day in four short videos. Richard Roeper's last 20 tweets. Nelson Algren's last night in Chicago. Sex, politics and Bloodshot Records. And how Obama will seal the Olympic deal.Posted on April 7, 2009 The [Monday] PapersAlgren's elbows. Axelrod's millions. Hendon's hijinks. Olympiconomics.Posted on April 6, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportVin Diesel applies for full NATO membership.Posted on April 4, 2009 The [Friday] PapersBlago, Patti, Tony, Greta, Twit of the Week, and new Wilco.Posted on April 3, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersWelcome IOC. Let me tell you how stupid our newspapers are.Posted on April 2, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesChicago's junk in a box.Posted on April 1, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersNewspapers drown in debt and stupidity as assets flee to the Web. Beachwood investigative news. Plus, I'm a moron.Posted on March 31, 2009 The [Monday] PapersHosting matters. All hands on deck. Izzo F'Shizzo. And where journalists can get hired.Posted on March 30, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThe ShamWow economy is overrun by the bracket economy.Posted on March 28, 2009 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesHuberman gives Daley's game away. Plus, Calabrese, Stroger, and Corgan.Posted on March 27, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesKids left in prison to rot. The Daley Way. Peoples Gas Journal update. And Wanny in the Sweet 16.Posted on March 26, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesThe Daley Show wears thin. Plus, the school board's slush fund. And, Jeff Ruby's Capital Song.Posted on March 25, 2009 The [Tuesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesWhy is everyone picking on Al Sanchez? Because he's guilty.Posted on March 24, 2009 The [Monday] PapersBy Steve RhodesOlympics, casinos, trains and fire.Posted on March 23, 2009 The Weekend Desk ReportBy Natasha JuliusThe fate of our post-industrial economy lies in Tyler Hansbrough's sweaty palms.Posted on March 21, 2009 The [Friday] PapersBy Steve RhodesMeter madness. Pot. Big Mac Snack Wraps. Taxes, Olympics and AIG.Posted on March 20, 2009 The [Thursday] PapersBy Steve RhodesUnlike, say, Oprah's puppy dying, the Sanchez trial has been grossly underplayed. Plus, writing unknowingly about the Olympics, the mayor, and the police chief.Posted on March 19, 2009 The [Wednesday] PapersBy Steve RhodesCPS students killed; others don't count. Plus, the snitch line and David Schwimmer.Posted on March 18, 2009 |