The donation went to the Greater Chicago Food Depository. The Christmas Ale is long gone, but a new highly anticipated brew, their Bourbon County Brand Coffee Stout, releases this week. more ›

How in demand was Goose Island's Rare Bourbon County Stout? Enough so that over 260 people lined up at Binny's Lincoln Park to be among the first to buy BCS rare when the doors opened at 9 a.m. By 11 a.m., Binny's had sold out of their entire allotment: 120 cases. At $42.99 a bottle, that's a lot of green. more ›

Former Governor George Ryan's attorneys were in court again today arguing that he be released from prison based on the Supreme Court's narrower definitions of the honest services law. They're arguing that, under the narrower definitions, Ryan wouldn't have been convicted for receiving gifts in exchange for state contracts and leases. more ›

As we wait to see if one former governor will ever go to jail for corruption, another who's already serving time is, once again, asking to be let out. Citing the failing health of his terminally ill wife and this year's Supreme Court decision on the Honest Services law, jailed former governor George Ryan has asked the federal judge who presided over his trial for a release. more ›

The last time we had a meetup with you readers, we said that we enjoyed it so much we were going to schedule them on a regular basis. That was back in December. more ›

Yesterday we mentioned Gov. Quinn is exploring the early release of many non-violent inmates as a means to help cut from the state budget. Now, reports say the number of inmates released could go as high as 10,000 in a bid to save up to $125 million on the budget. more ›

American journalist - and Medill graduate - Roxana Saberi has been freed from an Iranian prison after an appeals court overturned her eight-year sentence for allegedly spying on Iran for the U.S. Saberi, a 32-year-old American-Iranian national, graduated from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism in 1999 and has been in Iran for six years, covering stories for outlets such as NPR and the BBC. Saberi's father, Reza, who lives in Fargo, North Dakota where Roxana grew up, is in Iran to bring her back home, telling the Associated Press, "In the next few days, we will make travel plans to return home." more ›