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MIHALOPOULOS: County job supplements pol’s $161-an-hour township gig
The last time we heard much about John O’Sullivan, the south suburban political operator was bitterly bidding goodbye to his job at Cook County’s forest preserves. County Board President Toni...
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County ethics chief OKs commissioner to vote on pop tax repeal
Cook County’s top ethics official on Tuesday cleared Commissioner Richard Boykin, D-Oak Park, to vote on a measure to repeal the county’s tax on sweetened beverages after Boykin promised he would no...
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Ex-business partner says Rauner wants lawsuit kept quiet
A former business partner of Gov. Bruce Rauner is suing Rauner, but all court records in the case are being kept secret — allegedly at the governor’s request. The lawsuit against Rauner was filed last...
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MIHALOPOULOS: Kennedy aide says sexism behind labor attacks on her
In the past decade, Hanah Jubeh quietly has become one of the most influential behind-the-scenes Democratic operatives in Chicago and Illinois politics. The 40-year-old Southwest Side native and...
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Top labor leader rapped for ‘sexist mindset’ in fundraiser criticism
Leaders of one of the most politically active labor unions in the state blasted the president of the Illinois AFL-CIO on Friday for what they called “unwarranted attacks” on a longtime Democratic...
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Labor leader apologizes, says ‘no sexist intent’ in Kennedy aide rap
The president of the Illinois AFL-CIO issued an apology Monday to a Democratic political consultant who was the target of heavy, personal criticism in the labor group’s newsletter last week. In a...
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MIHALOPOULOS: Dogged fight to keep riverwalk forever open, clear, free
During lunch hour on an unseasonably warm fall Friday, downtown high-rise dweller Jeffrey Graubart and his yellow lab, Wriggles, committed an act of disobedience, hoping to alter the future of...
View ArticleMIHALOPOULOS: Will indicted Trump aides be stand-up guys — or rats?
Here in Illinois, where we’ve seen so many federal investigations roll through the halls of power, every Chicago ward hack and Springfield politico knows the most important question to ask at this...
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Chicagoan’s path from Trump campaign to conviction to cooperation
President Donald Trump immediately tried to downplay the importance of the indictment of his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. But the guilty plea of North Side native and DePaul University...
View ArticleMIHALOPOULOS: Helping Santa find Heaven on the West Side
Around this time a year ago, I went to the table in the Chicago Sun-Times newsroom where we keep many of the correspondences we get from the kids from across Chicago who participate in our Letters to...
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MIHALOPOULOS: Pop tax foe no fan of paying own property taxes on time
Sean Morrison, the Cook County Republican chairman and a county commissioner, gained global attention as the chief sponsor of legislation repealing the county’s notorious tax on pop. But Morrison got...
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One small victory for people, pooches on the Riverwalk
These are tough times for members of the news media, with the far left deriding us as corporate tools and right-wingers crying “fake news” when the facts contradict their world view. Reporters have to...
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MIHALOPOULOS: Will pop-tax anger unseat Preckwinkle, or fizzle out?
After this month, Cook County won’t get another cent from its penny-an-ounce tax on sweetened beverages. But could the bitter aftertaste from the pop-tax dispute linger with voters as they decide...
View ArticleGutierrez: From chopping up ‘pig innards’ to owning $1.1M second home
The final chapter of Luis Gutierrez’s 2013 autobiography was titled, “Too Puerto Rican for America, Too American For Puerto Rico.” As Gutierrez announced his plans to retire after a quarter-century as...
View ArticleMIHALOPOULOS: Alderman quick to raise our taxes, slow to pay his own
Without saying a word at the City Council meeting last month, first-term Ald. Derrick Curtis joined the vast majority of his colleagues in supporting Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s 2018 budget. Like 46 other...
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Honk if you agree, Kennedy Expressway stalwart asks
The howling, early-winter wind and roar of afternoon rush-hour traffic on the Kennedy Expressway muffle the sound of the cars that beep at Veronica Wolski every few seconds. From her perch on a...
View ArticleEx-mayor says Rep. Jim Durkin got involved in Broadview brouhaha
In a sworn deposition in a federal court case, the former mayor of Broadview testified that Illinois House Minority Leader Jim Durkin called and asked him to meet with a strip club consultant who has...
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MIHALOPOULOS: Troopers aim to end Bernie backer’s long reign above the Kennedy
On her 584th straight day on a bridge above the Kennedy Expressway, the Northwest Side’s Bernie Sis found herself accused of running afoul of the law for the first time. Veronica Wolski again went up...
View ArticleWill janitorial contract and Trump get swept up in McCarthy’s mayoral plans?
Politics and government contracting aren’t supposed to mix. But this is Chicago, the city of Hired Trucks and the Duffs and the former public schools CEO now in federal prison for demanding a 10...
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With so much practice, Fioretti shouldn’t have problems paying campaign workers
Oops, he did it again. Even after being busted for the same misdeed twice before, Bob Fioretti — the former alderman running for Cook County Board president in the upcoming Democratic primary — stiffed...
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