Another takeaway – regardless of whether a jury decides Madigan was corrupt – is the political importance of leading without becoming poisonous.

Illinois Senate President Don Harmon continues piling up campaign money. His latest quarterly report for his personal campaign committee showed Harmon had $13.4 million in the bank, up almost $2 million from the previous quarter.

Most consider football to be the most popular spectator sport in the United States. But in the 1930s, corn-husking provided some stiff competition.

No idea should be off the table. Think beyond trains and large fixed-route buses to paratransit and potentially even subsidized taxi service. Explore how community planning and civil engineering might evolve to increase the efficiency of public transportation.

This column that pops out of my mental toaster each week is always about connecting. Me to you. You to me.

The greatest service organization in the world is arguably Rotary International, with 46,000 clubs and 1.4 million members in over 166 countries. An Illinois native was one of the four co-founders of Rotary.

Opinion: It would be remiss of us not to address the potential effect this tax increase could have on many of our businesses, writes Rose Treml of the Sycamore Chamber of Commerce on a proposed 1% sales tax referendum on the November ballot for DeKalb County public schools.

Sarah Boettcher is a junior at Naperville North High School. She is responsible for KnowYourStateJudges.org, a new website that helps voters outside of Cook County cast informed ballots in judicial elections.

“Long” John Wentworth, who died this day in 1888, served six terms in Congress representing Chicago – first as a Democrat, then a Republican – and among a legendary career played a role in formally ending the border dispute with Wisconsin.