We wish we could go back in time to comb Patrick Swayze's feathered hair. more ›

• The latest parking meter issue has Mayor Daley annoyed, calling the issue "unacceptable."
• The Sun-Times' union workers will shortly assemble to vote on concessions requested in Jim Tyree's bid for the paper's parent company. A smaller paper in the STMG family - the Post-Tribune - voted against the concessions last night.
• The IHSA has reinstated all levels of football at North Chicago High School after the program was suspended following a brawl with Simeon High earlier this month.

You mean there was news besides the election??? more ›

Sure, it's stupid, but mama loves a 60 Minutes joke. more ›

Even as the stores sport back to school sales (which depress us, even now), summer lingers on your friends the -ists. This week's collection of links provides some of the best, worst, and oddest bits of summer fun. So, bring your laptop up onto the roof, make yourself an umbrella drink or ten, and enjoy this week's choice posts from across the Gothamist network. Torontoist (where it's 75 degrees F as of this writing)... more ›

Do you love love songs? Sure, we all do (except for you Mr. Drinking Jack Daniels In The Dark). So does the Sun-Times. Just in time for your Valentine’s Day mix tape, they’ve published a list of great and not-so-great love songs. How’d they do? Well…the whole idea of lists like this is to spur discussion right? Then spur we will! It’s their Best of the Best list that we have the biggest quibbles over.... more ›