Sitemap - 2023 - Eric Zorn: The Picayune Sentinel

Unpredictable? Yes, but that won't stop us from trying!

A call for entries in my Predict the News of 2024 survey

Rocky Mountain high?

Ask not for whom the Skyway toll rises

Abortion foes are telling us who they really are

Artificial ignorance gives me a new wife

Once again, Mr. Mayor, what's your Plan B?

Dr. Pepper, heal thyself!

Hinsdale South must dismiss its head basketball coach

Marduk is also not the reason for the season

Battery? Maybe. But felony? Aggravated?

Another rookie mistake by Mayor Johnson

Abortion-rights foes must think they're just not being loud and annoying enough

What does an alder have to do to deserve censure, anyway?

Father's plea deal in parade-shooting case is not a 'beacon' for anything

'The cold passes through everything'

Time for Republicans to throw a Haley Mary?

Pritzker has gone squishy

Weighing the anchors: Which local TV newscaster is the GOAT?

Cassidy: Invest in schools that don't teach that I am an abomination

Readers weigh in on the awful conflict in the Middle East and other topics

Can you stop atrocities with atrocities?

Wrongful convictions harm more than the falsely accused

Chicago saw way more robberies in the early 1990s than it's seeing today

What the Hecke? Bylines at CWBChicago?

Memo to Republicans: Keep our city’s name out of your fearmongering mouths

Correspondence on tipping, Twitter, 'TTW and more

Special announcement to Picayune Sentinel supporters

The looming threat to curbside Little Free Libraries

Steve Dahl reacts to my anniversary coverage

In defense of Chicago Teachers Union leader Stacy Davis Gates

Let's take a mulligan on the Tiger Woods golf course plan

They'll be back! Burning Man refugees remain psyched for 2024

At last, the ultimate Chicago never-have-I-ever survey

Book `em! (But don't post their photos)

Brandon Johnson's floor leader defends the firing of Dr. Alison Arwady

The bigots’ gambit: Trans women barred from women’s chess tournaments

What are the quintessential Chicago experiences?

More thoughts on Brandon Johnson's epic fail

Mayor Brandon Johnson's chickenshit dismissal of Dr. Arwady

We can fault the father of the Highland Park shooting suspect, but I doubt we will convict him

The baloney and Panburger Partner issue of Picayune Plus

Meeting again with the shipmates with whom I set sail as a youth

This issue may change forever how you feel about peanut butter

Put big money on big money interests to win the fight over free government income tax software

Twitter by any other name is still my favorite social media cesspool

Horrible things will happen after Illinois eliminates cash bail

Blagojevich speaks ill of the dead

The NU hazing scandal: How far up and down the ladder should it go?

Why I'm not ready to abandon Twitter and convert to Threads

Fond memories of bare-breasted women in ancient Crete

Dispatches from off the grid

Errata

PING Power! Can this acronym catch on?

Readers endorse pomp, circumstance for 8th graders

The 'right to be forgotten' is in tension with the First Amendment

On 8th grade graduations and birthday memorials

Birthday observances should continue after death

The unpardonable idea that Trump will escape justice

Mayor Johnson to the suburbs: Keep our city's name out of your mouth!

‘Legitimate’ comment or an ugly, malicious and false cartoon in the Trib?

My grandfather was fired, and we couldn't be more proud of him

An unfair slam at mothers-in-law?

Thanks to 'big babies,' the U.S. is likely to avoid an economic meltdown

'Coffin Flop' flops and other reactions from readers

Mayor Johnson's unwise decision to invoke the death of Adam Toledo

Promising start for the potential next 'Michael Jordan of politics'

Lori Lightfoot still doesn't get it

A dissenting view on Willie Wilson, columnist

Can we wire shut the jaws of our gluttonous pols?

Like good neighbors, Picayune Sentinel readers are there

It's not too late for Kim Foxx to revise her obituary

I would gladly pay $8 a month for Twitter

Step off, Ruth Bader Feinstein!

Where's the rub? Johnson mulls ousting Arwady

Indiana man claims dibs on 'The Chicago Way'

Words can hurt, yes, but where's the line?

Here's hoping I'm wrong about Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson

The Election Day so many are dreading is finally here

Mayoral race enters the home stretch

Tweet Madness heads to the Final Four

Vallas leads the race for surprise endorsements

Tweet madness continues!

Vallas, Johnson stumble as they walk back

Big mayoral forum on public safety today!

Boycott Walgreens ... for now

Big mayoral forum one week from today!

High-contrast election coming April 4

It's Election Day! But no, it should not be a holiday

My vote for mayor went to ...

Lightfoot deals the race card

Sell those paintings, Valpo!

I don't give a single, solitary rip about Paul Vallas' legal residence

Really, Chuy? Watching the SOTU in person was more important than participating in a major mayoral forum?

Chicago plows its way back to the past

If you can't say anything nice about someone ...

How could those cops in Memphis have been so vicious AND so stupid?

Picayune Sentinel: Shifting my chips onto Vallas as the Chicago mayoral race enters the home stretch

Shifting my chips onto Vallas as the Chicago mayoral race enters the home stretch

Margins of error

Lightfoot, Biden do a political d'oh!-si-d'oh!

Straight talk from a critic on the term 'straight'

Haters gonna hate Lightfoot’s new campaign ad

Voters, just say 'no' to Proco Joe

'Chicago Tonight' is moving to 10 p.m.

Cash bail would be unthinkable if it weren't already traditional