Arts & Entertainment

Haiti Earthquake

We look at the local reaction to yesterday's devastating earthquake in Haiti.

Politics

News Analysis: Political Roundtable

Carol Marin and her panel take a look at the primary races that are heating up.

Politics

State of the State

Governor Quinn delivered his first State of the State address this afternoon. Eddie Arruza has some highlights from the speech and tells us what some are saying about his remarks.

Blagojevich Archive

Gov. Blagojevich's Poetry

When in trouble, quote poetry. We examine Governor Blagojevich's recent poetic urges at his press conferences.

• Rudyard Kipling's "If" (1910)
• Lord Alfred Tennyson's "Ulysses" (1842)
• Robert Browning's "Waring" (1842)
• Thomas Chatterton's "The Resignation"

Politics

Brothers at War

We talk to a local filmmaker whose highly acclaimed documentary about the Iraq war debuts on DVD today.

• Brothers at War

Education

Howard Tullman Art Collection

We visit the huge art collection of Chicago entrepreneur and Flashpoint Academy President and CEO Howard Tullman.

• View the collection

Politics

Racial Remarks

Heated racial rhetoric has dominated the headlines lately. From Rod Blagojevich's apology for saying that he is "blacker than Barack Obama" to Senator Harry Reid's comments in 2008 about the advantages of the President Obama's light skin and lack of a "Negro dialect," we continue the dialogue on race sparked by recent controversies.

• "Was it Racism? 2009" -- The Chicago Reporter

Politics

Senator Dick Durbin

Will there be a health care reform bill on the President's desk this month? Is there another stimulus plan on the horizon? How is the Afghanistan surge working? Elizabeth Brackett asks the man working on the answers to all of those questions -- Senator Dick Durbin.

Arts & Entertainment

Remembering Jan Gabriel

His voice was synonymous with Chicago area motor sports. Jan Gabriel died yesterday. We revisit our 2004 profile of this master showman.

Business

The Fixer

There's a myth that new cars can come with a three-day "cooling off" contract for buyers. We talk to Chicago Sun-Times "Fixer" Stephanie Zimmermann about what is driving those rumors.

• Better Business Bureau
• Annual Credit Report
• Read The Fixer's column