Chicago Treasurer Stephanie Neely may be using her assigned security detail to do more than protect her from, um, having the city treasury stolen? more ›

We're surprised Fox Chicago or NBC Chicago hadn't done this sooner. more ›

It's a match made in media heaven: Paris Hilton came to Chicago to promote her reality show that nobody watches, and she did so on Good Day Chicago, Fox's morning program that nobody watches. more ›

When Fox Chicago ran a story questioning the necessity of Chicago Public Libraries, CPL Commissioner Mary Dempsey came back with a heated retort. In her letter to reporter Anna Davlantes, Dempsey pointed out that the Chicago Public Library system serves 12 million visitors per year, checked out nearly 10 million items last year and provided 3.8 million free one-hour Internet sessions. We asked CPL to share some more fun facts, most of which come from the 2009 annual report, which is available on the CPL website. All of these numbers reflect CPL activity as of December 31, 2009. more ›

This week's post on Fox Chicago's story on libraries certainly got folks talking. Among them were the city's librarians who have now fired back at the suggestion that libraries are, perhaps not needed. Chicago Public Library Commissioner Mary Dempsey wrote a letter to Fox reporter Anna Davlantes, who anchored the story, in which she lays down the statistical thunder regarding library usage in the city. more ›

That's what Fox Chicago's Dane Placko found happening when he took a camera crew down to 49th and Ashland for a visit to the Mother's House social services agency. Mother's House is supposed to be providing job training to people in Illinois' EarnFare program, which "is designed to provide adults who receive Food Stamps and who volunteer an opportunity to gain valuable work experience, earn cash assistance, and become self-sufficient." Placko spoke to a number of EarnFare workers who told him the only task they were given each day was to gather signatures on petitions for political candidates, most notably Cook County Circuit Court Clerk and Cook County Board President candidate Dorothy Brown. Besides the interviews, Placko also found several stacks of political petitions at the Mother's House office, which lead to a heated exchange with the manager there escalating to a point where police were called. more ›

It's only Monday morning and already tensions are high ahead of Friday's Olympic announcement. Internet muckraker Matt Drudge reported on his website late last night that WFLD Fox 32 has been asked by Chicago 2016 to not re-air a story on the Chicagoans For Rio website out of fear it would harm Chicago's chances of winning Friday's IOC vote. You can check the original story out here; it aired last Thursday. Fox 32 had no comment when we contacted them by phone earlier this morning. more ›

Just a refresher, the county commissioners responsible for the extra stream of sales tax dollars into a bottomless pit of waste are William Beavers (D-Chicago), Jerry Butler (D-Chicago), Joseph Mario Moreno (D-Cicero), Deborah Sims (D-Chicago), Earlean Collins (D-Chicago) and Robert Steele (D-Chicago). [Fox, via Beachwood Reporter] more ›

It's been an interesting couple of days in the case of Stacy Peterson's disappearance. While D-Pete, who has never met a camera he doesn't love, showed up on national television again last week in the wake of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of deceased murdered third wife Kathleen Savio, there are some new happenings in the case of missing fourth wife Stacy. News came from NBC 5 yesterday that police and Coast Guard officials were searching a canal for possible evidence. D-Pete attorney Joel Brodsky dismissed the actions, saying, "They did it all last summer. They're doing it again, so I don't think it's of any significance." Pam Bosco, spokeswoman for Stacy's family, was more optimistic, saying, "I think what we can take from that is that they're still considering this a very important investigation, and that it's very active. We believe she can be found yet, and so we want to put all our efforts into doing our searches. Yet we believe that eventually we will find Stacy." more ›