Dear Eric: Today after dropping off groceries, my wife noted that the refrigerator, in her opinion, had an unpleasant odor and was very quick to share her opinion with my son-in-law. She is also rather critical of many of his habits. And her opinions are not without merit. But my mother always said, “less said, better mended.”
Chicago Cardinal says when Pope Leo XIV is ready to travel to the United States, he will push for a Chicago stop.
Mayor Brandon Johnson received a letter from an assistant attorney general saying there is “reasonable cause” to believe he “made hiring decisions solely on the basis of race.”
Snow seasons in Chicago are tracked from July through the following June. The area normally can expect 38.4 inches.
Dear Eric: Lately some of my friends who have joined me on these trips have now become buddies with my mom and are asking her if they can stay up there without me. Now the first time this happened, the friend called me and asked if I was OK with him asking, but the second time it was a different friend wanting to stay there with his girlfriend and he never asked me.
In the coming week, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is scheduled to meet Trump at the White House. They have much to discuss.
The Trump administration’s crackdown on DEI initiatives threatens an Illinois scholarship program aimed at minority graduate school students.
House rules typically ban members of Congress from leasing from business partners but US Rep. Jonathan Jackson’s spokesman says ethics officials OK’d the arrangement.
Dear Eric: My brother asked me if he could borrow $5,000, and he would start making payments to pay it back. For the sake of my niece and nephew, I loaned him the money. Unbeknownst to me, my brother was borrowing money from everyone in the family. Soon, everyone in the family found out what he was doing and cut him off.
When it comes to optimism, Charity Hope Valentine bests ever other character in a Broadway musical.