Every goddamn day: 04/30/25

        Honestly, I don't view Caren Jeskey leaving Bat City as EGD losing its Austin bureau chief so much as our gaining, not just anot...

       “Walgreens,” observed the medical technician at a CVS in Franklin Park Tuesday, reading the vaccine card I handed him as I sat down b...

     Facebook disinterred this chestnut, and it seemed an apt follow-up to Wednesday's column about religion.  Ever wonder why certain ...

Belief + Doubt = Sanity, by Barbara Kruger (Hirshhorn Museum)      On May 11, 1833, “Chicago’s first reformer,” Rev. Jeremiah Porter, arrive...

         West Fulton Market is not actually all that close to Franklin Park. A solid 45 minutes to the east and south. But circumstances Mon...

Julie Schaeffer, right, and Cal.      Julie Schaeffer lives in Northbrook with her husband and their two kids, 17 and 19. The younger is a s...

       Donald Duck and Daffy Duck are very un-ducklike, now that I think of it. With all the sputtering and the flapping and the agitation, ...