Every goddamn day: 04/27/25

Ruth Snyder in the electric chair     I complain about being surrounded by lawyers — two sons, a daughter-in-law and a wife — but there are ...

The Book Bin's new location, 1929 Cherry, Northbrook      Happy Independent Bookstore Day! When I heard that the last Saturday in April ...

     When you stop caring about people, you can do anything.      Ignore any suffering, endorse any wrong. Heck, you can, as Robert Crimo II...

      Sen. Dick Durbin announced Wednesday that he won't run for re-election. Of course he did. In an era when politicians leap to look ...

  Susana Mendoza      Don't bite off more than you can chew.      If something is overwhelming — whether today's news, or the $39.95...

Photo by Dan Abraham       Much reader reaction to Monday's column on birding.      "You can't go wrong with birds," I to...

Bob Dolgan looks for woodcocks at the Glenview Park District's Kent Fuller Air Station Prairie.       Usually, birds come to me. To my b...