Delays Ahead At O'Hare, Midway As Sequester Furloughs Begin

April 22, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Delays Ahead At O'Hare, Midway As Sequester Furloughs Begin Significant delays are being anticipated at Chicago's two major airports after sequestration-related furloughs went into effect nationwide Sunday. Continue reading... Chicago's Green City Bragging Rights Woman Arrested 396 Times Since 1978 Rahm, Gov. Quinn Diss Rick Perry Ahead Of Chicago Visit PHOTOS: Record Store Day 2013 In Chicago Murder Charges Filed In Case Of Missing Infant Police Agency Launches Probe Of Farrakhan Son Father Defends Teen Son Against Allegations Of Al Qaeda Ties CPS Closing Plan Would Push Some Schools Over Capacity PHOTOS: Record Store Day 2013 In Chicago Murder Charges Filed In Case Of Missing Infant Gun Violence Leaves 3 Dead, 13 Injured In Chicago Since Friday ELAINE WEISS Can We Move Past Market-oriented "Reforms" to Policies That Actually Work? Instead of results, we have gotten rhetoric, and our children have fallen further behind. It is time we adopt policy solutions that match the depth and complexity of the problems and address them head on. Continue reading... TOM CRAMER Baseball In the '70s: Little League, Fast Pitch And Harry Caray Summer vacation meant fast pitch in the morning, watching a bit of the Cubs after lunch, back out to play more baseball and then the White Sox after dinner. It was heaven. Continue reading... LAUREN DRELL Martin Atkins Talks CIMMfest, the Music Biz and Why He Throws Blueberry Muffins at His Audience I caught up with Martin Atkins -- who's best known for drumming in some of the most influential post-punk and industrial bands, including Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Pigface (Trent Reznor) and Killing Joke -- about what he's got on deck for his keynote to wrap CIMMfest. Continue reading... MARK BAZER Down the Line's Derek Fawcett on The Interview Show Derek Fawcett, longtime Down the Line member, stopped by The Interview Show to perform and talk about his solo album, The Winter Clothes, touring with Blues Traveler and why an upbeat guy writes some awfully sad songs. Continue reading... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN 'We Must Never Give Up!' The United States Senate's failure to pass common sense gun safety measures -- the Manchin-Toomey Amendment to expand background checks to keep guns away from underage or dangerous people, and amendments to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines designed only to kill as many human beings as possible -- is a moral failure of great magnitude. Once again the safety of children has been sacrificed by political leaders in service to the gun lobby. As Americans do we value guns more than the lives of children? Do we really want to continue to have political leaders who kowtow to the threats and money and half-truths of the gun lobby and who think their political jobs are more important than the right of children to live and learn and grow up in safety? Continue reading...< /em> Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003