This past few weeks of "Feels like 102 degree temps" brings me back to this story published 3 years ago about events 20 years prior to that. Mr. Sims appeared in front of Judge O’Callahan in a Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago off of...

Perhaps it's the transient periods of Spring like weather recently when it isn't snowing, Dairy Queens reopening on the Ides of March or just cabin fever, but I have spent a lot of time recently thinking about fishing with my father. He passed...

Growing up in Chicago, one of many summer pastimes was to go fishing in Canada. We made Red Lake, Ontario our preferred destination and stayed at the Black Bear Lodge which was aptly named. Our fathers would take several dozen of us in vans on...