Starting Thursday, the Sun-Times Media Group will begin a "metered" pay plan for online content. more ›

Newspaper editorial boards rarely touch on private spats or take a swing at individuals. But this is Chicago and the Sun-Times was writing about the controversial County Assessor, so all bets were off this week. more ›

We knew Art kept clips of what others thought of his work. But not this detailed. more ›

The Sun-Times brought their restaurant coverage into the 21st century with the announcement of Michael Nagrant as their new dining critic. more ›

The Sun-Times food critic for 27 years has been let go. more ›

8th District Rep. Joe Walsh came out swinging after the Sun-Times published a story yesterday that read he owed his ex-wife over $100,000 in child support, claiming the article to be a "hit piece." more ›

The Tribune and Sun-Times have reached an agreement in which the Trib will begin printing the Sun-Times and seven sister publications in September. more ›

Former Sun-Times owner Conrad Black was ordered back to prison today as his wife fainted in the courtroom. more ›

Sun-Times reporter Kim Janssen got a bird-eye view at what residents across the city go through when a shooting breaks out yesterday, while covering another shooting. more ›

Congratulations are in order for Sun-Times reporters Frank Main and Mark Konkol, and photographer John J. Kim. The three were awarded Pulitzer Prizes today for local reporting for their exhaustive series on 59 hours of violence that occurred between April 18 and April 20, 2008. During those 59 hours, 40 people were shot; seven died. more ›

The Cook County Medical Examiner Mesirow Financial and Sun-Times Media Group chairman James Tyree's death to be accidental as the result of an air embolism and dialysis catheter removal. Tyree had been battling stomach cancer for months and that, along with pneumonia, was listed as a secondary cause of death. more ›

Roger Ebert will be wearing a prosthetic chin for his segments on the reconstituted Roger Ebert Presents At The Movies. Today Ebert discusses the process to having the new chin constructed on his blog with his usual blend of grace, humor, wisdom and candor. more ›

Of 18 car washes across the city chosen by the Sun-Times at random, they found only one, Latino's Hand Car Wash at 3117 S. Archer in the McKinley Park neighborhood, did not have a water meter to measure water usage. As a result, the business is billed a flat fee for water and sewage usage, based on the antiquated system for billing in which a property owner is billed a flat fee determined by the width of the lot and building, regardless of use. more ›

Apparently, it has been a busy after-hours week at the Cook County Building and that has us thinking of Bob Seeger. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the Cook County Board President’s office “underwent a hush-hush after-hours security inspection Wednesday night.” Despite assertions from Stroger’s spokesperson that the sweep had been planned for weeks, Cook County Homeland Security and Emergency Management Executive Director David Ramos and the two former FBI agents (now owners of a private security company) that accompanied him, still needed building management’s assistance to enter offices for Stroger and former Chief of Staff Carla Oglesby. Oglesby is awaiting trial for an array of contracting irregularities. The CST notes that Ramos is a key witness in the case. more ›

The Rahmformer sat down with Sun-Times City Hall reporter Fran Spielman for an interview in yesterday's paper that covered a litany of topics, including his recorded conversations with Rod Blagojevich, possible opposition to his mayoral campaign and his infamous abrasive personality. "When asked, what's in it for the governor, I'm the one [who] said, "All you're gonna get is thanks and appreciation,'" Emanuel told Spielman. "Then, you also know how the governor then responded to that." more ›

We are Mary Mitchell fans. She writes things that need to be said in this town and is willing to speak truth to power. more ›

The Sun-Times investigation into how properties throughout the city are billed for water may have been news to some, but not Mayor Daley. Daley introduced an ordinance early last month in anticipation of the Bright One's expose, as an attempt to both get ahead of the story and to modernize a billing system that was established back when Chicago still counted furs and livestock as currency. more ›

— Sun-Times restaurant critic Pat Bruno, who hasn't been accused of working hard since 1995, in his review of Girl & the Goat. [Sun-Times] more ›

If you are among the legions of Chicagoans toting an iPhone, there is no excuse for being out of touch with the news these days. Until recently, Chicago was not well represented in the iTunes store. In fact, what should have been the flagship of the Second City’s local news offerings was an embarrassment with a woeful and limited app from the Chicago Tribune. But this week’s rollout of a reconceptualized app from the folks in Michigan Avenue’s gothic tower is just the latest in a groundswell of Chicago media offerings for Apple devices. Here’s a quick rundown: more ›

This week, we're counting down the top 9 stories of 2009 according to the Chicagoist staff. more ›

We don't know about you, but whenever we head out to the dollar store for some off-brand jerky, a 20 oz. Mountain Dew, and some expired baby aspirin, we often think, "Gee, some tabloid format news would be perfect right now," only to find out they didn't have any. So imagine our delight when it was announced that the Sun-Times is now available at 150 Dollar Tree and Dollar General stores across the Chicago area. The Sun-Times will also be selling its daily paper at 57 Walmart stores -- the discounter had previously only sold the Sunday edition. more ›

If you've ever wanted to be a Payroll Supervisor or a Machinist Foreman for Cook County, hopefully all your papers are already in order. According to Todd Stroger, the sweet tit of county jobs is going to dry up for all hopeful sucklers in the very near future. more ›

The Tribune had a wraparound yesterday laying out some of what they're calling progress in terms of their redesign, which you'll remember kicked off towards the tail end of last September. Editor Gerould Kern laid out what they've done, what they've changed since the redesign, and what they're going to continue to do. Cliff's Notes version: Business section is back, jumping stories to other sections is done, more clear-cut organization of the paper is being implemented, and "refining" the use of graphics is underway. more ›

It's always a busy day in the world of Donald Trump, but it's a little bit busier around our very own Trump Tower as of late. First, Crain's Chicago has scoured the real-estate listings to find that the Editor-In-Chief of the Chicago Sun-Times, Michael Cooke, flipped his condo for a tidy profit recently. Hey, good for him - at least the newspaper industry is on a paying basis for somebody.* Maybe he can get a show on A&E now. more ›

Oprah began her live presidential party on Wednesday with a copy of the Sun-Times in hand, with its stoic image of Barack Obama and simple headline, "Mr. President," declaring it her favorite from that day. As she later told her guest Will Smith, "It was the best paper of all the papers in the world." And she had a lot to choose from. more ›

Though Oprah promised not to use her show as a pulpit for the Obama campaign, she didn't say anything about throwing a house party for his win! After her star-studded "get out the vote" party on yesterday's show, the Big O headed down to Grant Park to cheer on our newly-elected president that she'd supported all along. more ›

Sun-Times Washington Bureau Chief Lynn Sweet reports that Robert Novak has announced his immediate retirement in the wake of his brain tumor diagnosis, which Novak says is "dire." more ›

Ozzie Guillen hates Jay Mariotti. Jerry Reinsdorf hates Mariotti. Andy MacPhail hates Mariotti. Dan McNeil has gone head-to-head with Jay. Charles Barkley has called Mariotti "a loser." Everyone at JayTheJoke.com certainly hates Jay Mariotti. Now it seems that even Jay's co-workers are hatin' on Jay - and you probably would too if he called you his "soft colleagues," who "fear Guillen's wrath, enjoy how he rips me, work for one of the Reinsdorf-controlled broadcast outlets or are afraid of getting on the chairman's bad side." Even worse, "I ignore what they write and say about Guillen, and I'd advise any reasonable person to do the same." Oh, snap. more ›