Chicago Daily Observer

Cardinal George and the search committee for the Archdiocese of Chicago should get a universal Atta Boy from the people of Chicago. Catholics who send their children to Catholic schools ease the burden of all tax payers.

The Chicago Tribune just announced the appointment of Sister Paul McCaughey
Sister M. Paul McCaughey, president and very long-time school leader of Marian Catholic High School in Chicago Heights.

As a career Catholic high school teacher, I have known Sister McCaughey since the late 1970’s. She is the real deal and person who knows, respects, and works the traditions of Chicago Catholic education. This is a school leader who operates from a teacher’s knowledge of classroom; and administrator’s support of classroom teaching, but most of all as a child of Chicago Catholic schools herself.

I have witnessed Sister McCaughey measuring the shot put and discuss at track and field events and saw ... Read More...

Well before we even knew the name of the gunman in the Northern Illinois University killing spree, some people already knew why he did it. Guns. Or, not guns.

And so, another tiresome argument over gun control was reignited, with both sides spilling their invective all over the Internet. The victims, their families and friends deserve better. If we have to discuss it, at least let the discussion be a little more intelligent and respectful.

Not that we needed another school shooting to begin the discussion. Mass shootings have been occurring with increasing frequency. Just a week ago at Louisiana Technical College in Baton Rouge, a 23-year-old women killed two students, and then herself.

The recent massacres in a Tinley Park women’s clothing store and in a suburban St. Louis city hall remind us that the carnage isn’t limited to schools. But schools may be more dangerous than malls and ... Read More...

No question about it, The Sam Adams Alliance does some great work in Chicago, and nationwide in promoting individual liberty. So it was pleasant to see the Feb 8, Tribune give Sam Adams a mention for defending the right to cook pork outdoors.

Yet, yesterday morning, Sam Adams was painted out of the story, to be replaced by a generic ”Chicago non-profit Libertarian organization” as one of the supporters of cooking out.

The Daily Herald twists the story in a different direction, entirely leaving out the ACLU and the Sam Adams Alliance, lending only Filipino “newspaper and television representatives” as interested in the case, chucking out the civil liberties angle, and picking up on the outdoor-cooking-gasp-Catholic-immigrants in the suburbs angle.

We hope to receive a full report from the Sam Adams Alliance on the delicate balance between commercial enterprise and private property rights as applied ... Read More...

Auchi: Riverside Park project to create 10,000 new construction, retail and commercial jobs; it is a win-win for Chicago.

CHICAGO – One of Britain’s most successful businessmen says he remains bullish on investing in the American economy and wants to complete a proposed $2-billion real estate development near downtown Chicago.

Nadhmi Auchi, ranked by Forbes as one of the world’s wealthiest men with a reported net worth of $3.1 billion, looks forward to developing a 62-acre parcel just west of Chicago’s “Loop” near downtown as part of a signature project, Riverside Park, that would include residential, retail, and commercial space.