Sun-Times Media Group Inc has announced organizational and management changes. They are hoping these changes will help the ailing company to cut costs. The changes announced include new publishers for the suburban papers and new duties for the current publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times. more ›

In an attempt to save $50 million this year, the company is eliminating 40 newsroom jobs at the Sun-Times, 11 newsroom jobs at Pioneer Press papers throughout the suburbs, a three Northwest side Pioneer Press papers all together (the Jefferson Park/Portage Park/Belmont-Cragin Times, the Harlem-Irving Times, and the Edgebrook-Sauganash Times). more ›

Today’s CTA Tattler discusses this morning’s RedEye article on the oft-heard but rarely understood CTA public address system. The CTA promises that new fiber-optic cables will soon allow you to know exactly how slow the Red Line is moving today. The Tattler also gives another plug for its CTA wireless alerts system and the transit status website run by friend of Chicagoist Tony Coppoletta. The CTA itself plans on evaluating its online CTA Bus Tracker... more ›

With all the screw-ups going on with the Brown Line reconstruction project, there’s no lack of things to complain about: cost overruns, customer dissatisfaction and sculptures that look like giant schlongs. Oh you missed that last one, did you? Well the office of Alderman Dick Mell certainly hasn’t. According to a report from Pioneer Press published in the Sun-Times, Ravenswood sculptor Josh Barger has created two 10-foot-tall lotus blossoms made out of aluminum to be... more ›

Continuing today's "Fun With Drugs in Schools" theme, Chicagoist just had to let you know about the suburban dad that is using the time-honored method of newspaper advertising to allege hard drug sales in the halls of a local school. Park Ridge's Dominic Vecchio, whose grammar school-age children attend schools within the Maine Township High School District, spent $900 of his own cash to publish an ad in last Thursday's Park Ridge Herald-Advocate (a Pioneer... more ›

category=1110&slug=Lutherans%20Gays">study reaffirming, among other things, the church's stance prohibiting ordination of gay and lesbian ministers. The study stopped short of advocating crucifixion of homosexuals, instead recommending its 5 million members find "ways to live together faithfully in the midst of disagreements." more ›