R. Bruce Dold

There's war and peace, and then there's Chicago politics. Rev. Jesse Jackson proved this week he should stick to war and peace. It has been nearly a month since Jackson...

Sammy's singing at the mansion again, and everything's right with the world. Sam Panayotovich, the executive director of the Illinois Liquor Control Commission, was nursing a bit of a hangover...

This is a story about a tough landlord and a witless tenant. Five years ago, Mayor Richard Daley decided that he wanted to get rid of the building at 321...

It hasn't gotten the attention that the casinos and racetracks and airports have, but the Illinois legislature is close to passing a bill to save the best school system in...

A few hours after Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot in June 1968, Mike Royko wrote a column on guns. It's in "One More Time," the new collection of Royko's...

The question for today is, when did the Republicans replace the Democrats in the pocket of the Illinois teachers unions? The Republican Party can take almost all the credit for...

Slobodan Milosevic may be ducking NATO bombs and missiles, but at least he can thank his lucky stars that the Texas legislature is still in session. The legislature's in session....

No one has ever accused George Ryan of being a sleekly packaged politician. White hair, gruff voice. A '50s guy in a '90s world. What Ryan loses in style points...

There's a bit of advice that governors pass down, like fathers to sons. It was trotted out by Jim Edgar on his farewell tour, and it says something about the...

Here is your government at work. On one side of Polk Street on the Near West Side, the concrete skeleton of a public hospital is rising from the ground. This...