A girl is grown up when she stops counting on her fingers and starts counting on her legs.

I've reported murders, scandals, marriages, premieres and national political conventions. I've been amused, intrigued, outraged, enthralled and exasperated by Chicago. And I've come to love this American giant, viewing it as the most misunderstood, most underrated city in the world. There is none other quite like my City of Big Shoulders.

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray.

What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?