It looks as though Geoff Dougherty, most recently Associate Publisher at the Reader for the length of time it takes us to make really good limoncello, has resurrected the online portion of Chicago Current. Chicago Current was, at one point, a print and online concern. Before that Dougherty said at the the Chicago Journalism Town Hall could cover news with its predecessor, Chi-Town Daily News, as well as the Sun-Times and Tribune with only a cool $2 million budget. more ›

Wallace “Gator” Bradley, the man responsible for the controversial fliers supporting incumbent Todd Stroger in the Cook County Board President contest, is promising more of the same as we close in on the February 2nd primary. Chicago Current caught up with Bradley earlier this week at a press conference in which U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush endorsed Stroger. Promising, “That ain’t the last thing you’re going to see," Bradley then connected some of the candidates to Holocaust deniers. more ›

Cook County Board President Todd Stroger is starting to ramp up the interviews and going on the defense as the race for his seat heats up and he is sliding back in the polls. Stroger sat down for interviews with both WBEZ and Chicago Current recently, and had plenty to say on the county's healthcare system, the sales tax rollback, and why he thinks the media is picking on him. more ›

The Chicagoist Podcast Series soldiers into mid-November with another media-centric conversation. Whether it seems like it or not, Chicago is awash with local sources of news, information, and entertainment, and while teeth continue to gnash over whether the Zells and Tyrees of this market will save us from media blackouts, some people are jamming their shoulders to the grindstone and pushing forward however the hell they can. more ›

• At today's hearing, prosecutors alleged that an investigator working with students of the Medill Innocence Project on the Anthony McKinney case paid a witness, undermining his credibility.
• President Obama traveled to Fort Hood to take part in the memorial service for the soldiers killed in last week's shooting rampage. Video of the President's remarks is available here.
• The early release for state prisoners to save money has begun.

Chicago Current, the successor to now-folded local news website Chi-Town Daily News, has gone live and you can read the web-edition here. There's not a whole heck of a lot there and some of the stories seem a bit stale - the CTA budget story doesn't offer anything new and Geoff Dougherty's op-ed about Daley seems is just managing to catch up to where several other outlets went a month ago when the city's Olympic bid failed. But there are a few pieces worth reading through and CTDN featured some great content that was hard to find anywhere else, so we're giving Current the benefit of the doubt as it is, after all, just starting up. And there's still the print issue to consider. more ›

• With property tax bills set to arrive in mailboxes over the next several days, it looks like they're going up by double-digits, even higher than previously expected.
• John Ambrose, a deputy U.S. Marshal accused of leaking information to mob members involved in the Family Secrets investigation, has been sentenced to four years in prison. When he was convicted in April, it was reportedly the first breach of the Witness Protection program.
• Former Chicago Bear Tank Johnson testified today in the murder trial of Michael Selvie, charged with shooting and killing Johnson's boyhood friend Willie Posey at the Ice Bar in December 2006.