EEEK! Never underestimate the impact of a big, hairy, muscular Chicago rat running across the richly textured carpet of a Palmer House Hilton dining room packed with guests who'd just eaten a lovely dinner served from the kitchen where said rat may have just emerged.
The questions of who gets Barack Obama’s Senate seat and who runs for Congress to replace Rahm Emanuel are producing a wild, pre-Thanks-giving turkey trot and a flock of candidates.
The trays of salami, cheese and toasted ravioli will be ready when Illinois' Democratic state senators walk through the door of Saputo's Italian restaurant in Springfield early this evening.
If you hire a shark, does that make you a shark? If you send in an enforcer, are you, de facto, an enforcer, too?
The Texas air had a cool edge the night of March 4, 2008, as several thousand eager but anxious supporters of Sen. Barack Obama filled a square in San Antonio. They feared the news wasn't going to be good.
Winners. The old story of how the world viewed Chicago went like this:
If I weren't already convinced that this election is like no other in our history, two people I know very well made the case for me last week.
It was Rahm Emanuel's suggestion, actually. "Why," asked the Chicago congressman, "don't you look at this presidential election through a different lens?"
On Monday morning, Jon Burge will walk the long lobby of the federal courthouse in Chicago to the elevators that will take him to his arraignment.