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Long before internet memes, there was Morris the Cat, the advertising mascot for 9Lives brand cat food, appearing on its packaging and in many of its television commercials since the 1970s. This particular appearance was on a 1986 calendar titled “Morris, A Cat For Our Times” that featured several p
If the latest poll is to be believed, the race for GOP rights to take on incumbent Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker is far too close to be called, though two contenders clearly are leading the pack.
Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara is demanding that three of his union’s strongest City Council supporters choose between their loyalties to his group and their allegiance to the firefighters union.
Catanzara wants three former firefighters now on the council — Nick Sposato, Anthony Napolitano and Jim Gardiner — to back Erin Jones, a CPD detective challenging state Sen. Rob Martwick, a favorite of Chicago Firefighters Union Local 2.
The Sun-Times wants us to blame an elected school board law, before the elected school board is actually seated? If you want to blame someone for the elected school board, don’t blame Harmon and Martwick, blame The Mayor and the mayors before her. They’ve had 25 years to prove to parents that mayoral control was a better model, and they failed. When I was younger, it didn’t take me long to figure out that the guys who were always calling their long string of ex’s crazy, were instead the crazy ones themselves. Someone should try to explain this concept to the ILGOP. At this point they ...