By James Banakis November 4th, 2026 I’ve never found much joy in doing dangerous things. Some people climb mountains, jump ...

My farewell column to the readers of the Chicago Tribune is out. It ends with -30-. It’s an old school newspaper code. It means, the end. But I’m not ending. People are calling, asking what I’m going ...

By John Kass October 25th, 2025 It’s time for me to wind down the website. Past time. I held on too long because it had cost ...

By David Bittinger November 1st,2026 Robert Fulghum’s 1988 book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten sold over ...

By Paul Vallas October 30, 2026 France is showing the rest of the world the epic failure of socialism and open borders. What ...

By Cory Franklin October  28th, 2026 When I first read the email that John sent, announcing his retirement from the blog, I ...

Chicago Way w/John Kass (10/26/26): John Kass announced that John Kass News is winding down. Facing five strokes over three years, John is hanging up the spear: “I can’t do another one… We’re winding ...

“Nothing is more important than retiring Brandon Johnson and thwarting Hilario Dominguez from becoming school board president. However, Michael Sacks’s handpicking their replacements is not the answer ...