Charles Selle

A story in the Chicago Tribune's business section last week noted that Aurora is one of the nation's best cities for creativity.

When voting concludes on Tuesday, there will be fewer Illinoisans voting than in past elections. That's not because there isn't interest in who will be our next president, or in down-ballot contests.

We may find out who are our next president is on Tuesday night. Then again, if this odd presidential contest is as close as pollsters indicate, it may be days before battleground states have their votes tallied.

In the end, it seems higher rents and grocery prices, including “shrinkflation” — charging the same price for less product — overrode all the other issues Vice President Kamala Harris a…

The roundups of coastal media elites, cable pundits and late-night talk-show hosts, they fear, will begin once the 47th president takes office on Jan. 20. I jest, maybe.

Sewage is one of those topics most of us don't often think about. Not even when we flush.

Some of our fellow Illinoisans don't like us. They want nothing to do with their compatriots in northeastern Illinois.

Seems our highway engineers want us to drive around in circles. If so, we're going to need a lot of practice navigating the traffic flow.

As we near the holiday season, it's common to see flyers on the windshields of vehicles parked at shopping locales normally hawking yule bazaars, along with art shows, craft fairs and the like.

For all of us thankful on Thanksgiving, one of the most grateful must be Waukegan City Clerk Janet Kilkelly. The felony charges she's been facing since March were tossed out last week.