Oprah Winfrey's OWN cable network laid off 30 people today. That's 20 percent of its workforce. more ›

According to gossip columnist Rob Shuter, Rosie O'Donnell will be moving production of The Rosie Show to New York. more ›

If reports are true that Hova and Sasha Fierce have chosen Oprah Winfrey to be Babyoncé's godmother, this kid could be the Messiah. more ›

We continue our recap of the top 11 stories of the year by looking back at Oprah Winfrey's final season of her Chicago-based show. more ›

For Winfrey fans expecting a daily show, we'll let you down easy. OWN said they expect the show to run weekly, on Sunday nights. Discovery, Oprah's partner in OWN, said that new episodes could run two or three times a week. more ›

The Big O has placed a Streeterville co-op she never fully moved into on the market for rent. And, based on the listing from Prudential Rubloff Properties, it's a doozy for only $15,000 a month. more ›

It looks as though Rosie has taken a shine to Chicago and backtracked on her comments in spring she would commute between here and New York. more ›

Chicagoist spoke with a member of the audience from the first test show, Jeff Rieck, 40, a resident of Uptown/Buena Park, to get a behind-the-scenes view of the new talk show. more ›

Closing out today's posting day: former City Corporation Counsel Mara Georges follows her one-time boss to the law firm that helped engineer the parking meter privatization deal. more ›

"Honorary Oprah Winfrey Way" hasn't been formally approved yet. more ›

To be honest, a part of us felt like the Rapture was coming immediately after Oprah signed off. We're so glad we were wrong. more ›

We sat through Oprah's final show so you didn't have to. more ›

In less than 24 hours, Oprah Winfrey's final show will air. Conan O'Brien had some fun looking at what the final three shows would be like. more ›

The long road that is Oprah Winfrey's farewell season reached its denouement last night as a line of celebrities came out to genuflect before Winfrey that was nearly as long as the mass of people who packed the United Center to take it all in. The scene of this star-studded tent revival didn't get sucked into a vortex last night, but it's still early and who knows what surprises Oprah has up her sleeve as she enters her final week of shows. more ›

Our own Tony Peregrin attended last night's Oprah-vival, the star-studded beatification of Oprah Winfrey. (Did Gayle King deny she knew Oprah three times before the cock crowed this morning?) Tony shared this photo with us and we let out a collective "WTF?" Tony explained that he and the rest of the housewives that made up the audience last night found these things wrapped in plastic and taped to their chairs. The flip side is simply blank but, when prompted by production assistants, they were asked to hold these up, blank side out. more ›

Word on the street however, is that talk show queen Oprah Winfrey has caused the Bulls to postpone Game 2 because of Winfrey's 'Surprise Oprah! A Farewell Spectacular' at the United Center. But au contraire says the NBA. more ›

Both Mayor Daley and Oprah Winfrey are riding off into the sunset together, so it makes sense that one of MayDay's final acts be proclaim the stretch of Carpenter Street outside Harpo Studios "Oprah Winfrey Way." Daley made the announcement this afternoon at a press conference outside Harpo Studios. Daley told Winfrey, "There's not enough time to describe what your 25-year journey has meant to Chicago." more ›

Today Art looks back at Chicago's cultural heavyweights, from Ray Kroc and Henry Crown to Roger Ebert and Oprah Winfrey. more ›

When your boss is Oprah Winfrey, results are demanded (unless you're Gayle King). And with the Big O now able to focus her attentions to her vanity network, heads have started rolling at the Oprah Winfrey Network. more ›

President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama's appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was taped last week, aired today. The show led off with the already seen clip of Winfrey asking the President about the release of his birth certificate, which the President said "it seemed unlikely my 18-year-old mother had plotted at the time" for him to be a Manchurian candidate and Michelle Obama called "ridiculous." From there, the appearance settled down into a discussion on the Obama's stay at the White House, the pitfalls and advantages of living in the White House, raising a family inside the bubble of the Presidency and what they hope the future holds for them. Here are some of the highlights. more ›

I'm sure Oprah's promo producers are just phoning it in at this point, but imagine what kind of fun they could have if they actually let loose for this episode. The Oprah Behind The Scenes show has documented exactly what kind of trials and tribulations The Almighty O had to put up with during February's Blizzaster, saying "Two shows hang in the balance and a super star guest goes missing. It's the most drama-filled hour yet!" more ›

There will be life for Oprah Winfrey's West Loop studios after she wraps production of her eponymous talks show and rides into the sunset in a gold-trimmed 2011 VW Beetle painted in the unnatural colors of her network logo with Gayle King in tow. The Harpo studios will be the home of a new talk show from friend, then foe, now friend again Rosie O'Donnell for the Oprah Winfrey Network. more ›

It's really happening: Oprah's Harpo Productions announced yesterday that her May 25th show will be her last show ever. It is safe to say that her final show will be incredibly outrageous, considering how extravagant and wild her show is during the holiday season (three words: Oprah's Favorite Things). Oprah hasn't dropped any hints about what she was planning for the May 25th finale, but she tweeted last week that she was "hard at work planning the final shows." more ›

The initial ratings for Oprah Winfrey's television network are in and they aren't rosy. If a color were to be ascribed to the ratings, it would probably be closer to the unnatural colors found in her network logo. more ›

Yesterday, Robert Feder broke the news that WLS-TV had settled on sports anchor Ryan Chiaverini and WGN Morning Show traffic reporter Valerie Warner would co-host a morning talk show to fill the 9 a.m. slot that was Oprah Winfrey's to claim since 1984. ABC7 confirmed that news, meaning Feder gets yet another feather in his career headdress. more ›

Sometimes it pays in spades to keep an eye on the Chicagoist Twitter feed, which is what tipped us to today's Diversion. It has so many things to love about it - political satire, a "Tron" send-up, Lady Gaga, the Rahmformer riding around a virtual reality on a hot dog, and Oprah as the ruler of the universe. But you already knew that last part, right? more ›

Man, there's gonna be one hell of a celebrity void come May when Mayor Daley leaves office and Oprah leaves town. Oh, Oprah, we're gonna miss your bug-eyed, spastic responses to questions, like when NBC5's Mary Ann Ahern asked you if you had an opinion on who would be the next mayor. You said you gave it "some serious thoughts," but didn't say what those thoughts were. You're a veritable Sphinx, O. more ›

So what is the "family secret" Oprah Winfrey will reveal on her show this morning that she alluded to on Thursday's show? If author Kitty Kelley is to be believed, it's a half-sister the Big O has never met before. Winfrey's production reps are mum on the subject, and Winfrey herself said that the secret is the "miracle of miracles" and "news that literally shook me to my core." more ›

It's either an example of a very hungry (and depressed) celebrity, or an example of people assuming that Oprah Winfrey has never, ever exaggerated about anything to make a point, ever. We hope it's the latter, because is there any way at all that someone could ingest thirty pounds of macaroni and cheese? more ›

Since we last heard from the Goddess of Television herself, Oprah Winfrey was itching to get back into being in movies and had told Barbara Walters that she definitely wasn't a lesbian. more ›