Bob Greene

Gov. George Ryan has no shortage of avowed political enemies in this state. I believe he knows that I have never been among them. So the governor should not pass...

The Golden Globe Awards in Hollywood and the fatal high-rise fire near the John Hancock Center and Water Tower Place in Chicago took place on the same night last week....

Have you ever been on a carnival midway, and come across a shell game? You may not have, at least not recently. Even traveling carnivals are being forced to clean...

Don't know why, but I've been watching my copy of the old documentary movie "Salesman" lately. It's as good as non-fiction filmmaking gets -- it's as good as filmmaking of...

Three weeks late, the New Year's Eve syndrome arrived in Chicago over the weekend. If we didn't see it coming, we should have. Its lesson is always the same --...

By midnight Sunday, as Monday begins, how much television do you think you will have watched this weekend? Figure it out in your head -- how many hours will the...

The natural state of the world, of course, is peace. That is what we tell ourselves as we begin each new day. Peace is the way of the world; conflict...

Maybe all of this was just waiting to happen anyway. Maybe the events in the United States, and around the world, since September are just being used as a justification...

So the question becomes: In what kind of car will the rich guys arrive at the funeral of the Lincoln Continental? The big news out of Detroit over the weekend...

Len Immke sold Buicks from the showroom of his auto dealership directly next door to the metal-plating plant that my dad ran. Alex Clowson, for a time, tried to make...