Mark Jacob

A hockey game is quite a departure for Wrigley Field, which is widely known as a baseball park. But here are other sports played there over the years. Rodeo: In...

Don't be depressed by today's scary economic numbers. Sure, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is a frightening fraction of its former self. But math is proving useful in another way....

For a dead guy, Elvis Presley sure makes a lot of news. Last Tuesday, the Tribune's Live! section tracked down his mystery girlfriend from 1956. Plus, the King has new...

The popularity of early voting threatens to dim the charm of a single Election Day. Which might be a good thing, according to a recent study that reported an 18...

It's that season again, when the dead return to life. We're not talking about Halloween--we mean Election Day, when ghost voters haunt the land. Here are 10 examples of political...

Q. Why did Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin accuse Barack Obama of "palling around with terrorists"? A. She was referring to Obama's association with 1960s radical Bill Ayers, now...

With the Cubs and Sox in the playoffs, Chicago is trying to curb booze-fueled idiocy around the ballparks by asking nearby bar owners to suspend alcohol sales in the eighth...

Before the Democratic and Republican conventions, the Tribune listed five things that each of the presidential candidates needed to do at his party's gathering in order to succeed. Here's a...