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Walter Jacobson's Perspective from WGN Plus
No talkie talkie by me this morning about Chicago or Springfield or Washington government and politics. And no crabbing by me about some ele...
In my opinion, the easiest and most comfortable news to report is good news. And I’ve just come across some very good news that was in...
There are big and important stories in the news today about that endlessly awful war being waged by Russia and Ukraine. And about disease an...
He is quite a character, that Elon Musk, believing it’s true what the media says, that he is the richest person in the world. And now Elon M...
The news about Walgreens closing stores in Chicago is bad news, and day by day it’s getting worse. The latest being that in the next f...
If you’re not watching the Senate hearings about President Trump’s choices for his Cabinet, you’re not missing much that i...
The public and often obscene arguments over President Trump’s decisions to fire FBI agents and prosecutors in the Department of Justic...
We can like or dislike our second time President Donald J. Trump. But we better, we all better, listen and pay attention to everything he sa...
I am sure that I am not the only person having had enough, enough, enough already of that Zuckerberg guy. Mark Zuckerberg, the multibilliona...
Good morning, Mr. President Biden. I’m thinking you are ruining your reputation and your legacy with all those presidential pardons an...
Well, finally, finally, we now have only a few days to wait for the first meeting of Chicago’s first-ever publicly elected Board of Ed...
Considering my very sad but nonetheless much-loved Chicago Bears, I’m wondering right now what I’ll do this coming Sunday, knowi...
Here we go again. Or here Rahm goes again. That’s Rahm Emanuel declaring that he may run again for Mayor of Chicago. Or, if Governor P...
It is hard sometimes to keep up with the ups and downs in the government and politics of Chicago’s rookie mayor Brandon Johnson who is...
My computer this morning, along with everything else I’m reading, is loaded with news about Donald Trump creating a new White House ad...
Maybe it’s good news, that vote for President. Maybe it’s bad. Depending on whom you voted for, you’re happy or sad. But f...
I walked around my neighborhood early this morning before catching the bus that brings me here and I’m still thinking about the Hallow...
It’s three days now into the Mike Madigan trial and the headlines are in big print on the front pages of Chicago’s biggest newsp...
With happy smiles, beautiful balloons, and tooting trumpets, more than 1,000 people gathered on State Street three days ago to celebrate the...
It’s been 2 1/2 years since Mike Madigan was indicted by a federal grand jury on 23 counts of criminal behavior during 36 years as Spe...
I have some bad news to report this morning. The great New York Times – The uppity, uppity New York Times – is once again beatin...
So, in Chicago, those now well-known ShotSpotters have run out of time. Their contract with the city has expired and Mayor Johnson says he w...
The news about who won the presidential debate in Philadelphia last week is getting old. So, let’s start considering something new. A...
For me, it was an OK debate. A lot of emotion and a little bit of anger. But nothing new from either one of the two. How they spoke and what...
The news in the news is moving so fast it’s difficult sometimes to keep up with it, and even more difficult to decide what to say abou...
Now that both political conventions have come and gone, how about thinking back to those magical days of the Olympics on TV, the amazing ath...
The night before the Democrats convened their presidential convention in Chicago, there was a civil rights Rainbow PUSH convention going on...
Just four days now until the Democrats begin their presidential nominating convention in Chicago. Many months after City Hall in Chicago has...
Thanks, but no thanks, to Donald Trump and Kamala Harris and to the Olympic athletes in Paris who are causing me to watch a lot of televisio...
Oh, so wild are the politics of campaigning for president. If you’ve had enough of it by now, you might turn your attention to the US...
The shock and terror of an attempted assassination of Donald Trump and another weekend of gun violence in Chicago. I’m trying to find...
In our windy, wonderful Chicago, the only thing more powerful than a politician is a newspaper. Specifically, the Chicago Tribune being read...
Summertime is trouble time and a good time to say “bravo” to a Chicago Alderman trying to prevent trouble. That’s Alderman Brian Hopki...
Finally, finally, tonight, the presidential debate live on cable TV, CNN. If you have cable and plan to watch, what are you thinking? What a...
The bad news about Justice Clarence Thomas of the US Supreme Court is getting worse with more revelations of Justice Thomas keeping a secret...
For as long as I can remember, the Sunday morning newspapers for me have been an every Sunday must, because in addition to behind-the-scenes...
Heads up, everybody! Heads up! Kim Foxx, the State’s Attorney of Cook County, wants us to know she is instructing prosecutors in her office...
Like so many people, I am glued to news about Donald Trump. But right now I’m thinking about a famous political person here in Illinoi...
It’s not a surprise, not at all a surprise, that the Chicago Bears are wasting no time at all to cash in on Caleb Williams, the recent...
There’s big news being made by the Boy Scouts of America, changing their name from Boy Scouts of America to Scouting of America, a cha...
There are so many ups and downs in the news about the Chicago Bears. Good news about the Bears drafting a superstar college quarterback and...
The NFL Draft being done, the football fuss is winding down, so let’s talk baseball. My thoughts are on the Cubs because I forever hav...
In the wild world of professional sports, for many months now in Chicago, thousands, possibly millions, of eyes and ears have been waiting t...
I don’t know very much about the songs of Taylor Swift. But I’m learning a lot about her skill at making herself world-famous. M...
Hey there, everybody, heads up! The campaigns for membership on Chicago’s first-ever publicly-elected Board of Education are now under...
It’s been almost a month now since the Chicago Bears came up with a new idea about where they want to play football and where they wan...
Those always-relentless tough guy federal prosecutors are now in tough pursuit of Apple. Oh, not the apple my mother told me to eat once a d...
It’s for sure and forever in Chicago that the biggest decisions being made in City Hall are swayed by politics. Like the recent decisi...
There is a big smile on my face this morning because I have something good to say about big business in Chicago. Specifically the JPMorgan C...
In presidential politics, this week is prime time. Two days ago, on Super Tuesday, 15 states voted in party primaries. And tonight, during a...