Kyla likes helping with the volleyball team because she likes the girls and helping them out.

It’s been an open secret for weeks that at least some members of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Intergovernmental Affairs staff would be leaving after the Democratic National Convention, including its director, Sydney Holman.

Kyla likes helping with the volleyball team because she likes the girls and helping them out.

Coffee. Couch. Scroll my cellphone. Next day: repeat.

A new state-funded program will help older Illinoisans feel more comfortable and more confident they can openly and safely be who they are, at a time when violence and abuse are growing.

The governor talked about a third term during a state delegates’ convention breakfast, but cautioned his audience that his wife, MK, was his “term limit,” explaining that if people want him to run again they’ll first have to convince her.

As a storyteller and lover of stories, I offer words of warning.

I don’t know if he pioneered it or not, but while reading the national commentary, it occurred to me that Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker has been pressing home the importance of “freedom” for several years here.

I’ve been thinking about my parents. Not the parents I knew, but the mom and dad I did not know.