July 16, 2020. John Kass has covered a variety of topics since arriving at the Chicago Tribune in 1983. He’s taking a few days to ponder the unsettling, nay, repugnant aspects of all this. But he liked setting fires. I don't think so. “I think it (the Smollett case) has opened an opportunity for us to have conversations around what does justice look like,” Foxx told WBEZ. Retired appellate Judge Sheila O’Brien’s call for a special prosecutor to investigate the stinking Jussie Smollett fiasco is making some people very upset. This is what John Kass was getting at in his July 22 column, the one his newspaper’s own guild deemed unsuitable for public discourse. He confessed to 20. By John Kass. The son of a Greek immigrant grocer, Kass was born June 23, 1956, on Chicago’s South Side and grew up there and in Oak Lawn. In other words: Please help me. Edward Burke, 14th, who now has federal legal issues, and Boss Michael J. Madigan, and the notoriously mobbed up 1st Ward. Article Tools. But you didn’t run then. Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx played the race card in an effort to salvage what remains of her career after she inexplicably protected TV personality Jussie Smollett for, wait for it He is co-host of “The Chicago Way” podcast on WGN plus. I’ve screwed up, and I need examples to show people that what I did is really not all that unusual. “Although we use the term ‘recuse’ as it relates to State’s Attorney Foxx’s involvement in the matter, it was a colloquial use of the term rather in its legal sense,” Foxx’s office said. According to his story, he apparently fought them off with a … The asking price for the four-bedroom, 3,350 … Not legally. In this conversation. The standoff over Chicago schools is over for now. Thanks to the office of Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx, Smollett gets to walk away from 16 felony counts of a grand jury indictment. Knowing who is connected to whom isn’t just a Chicago parlor game. Lt. Jeffrey Boyle, a convicted and prolific arsonist, was called “Matches.”. Smollett was a Democratic and media hero for a time, telling the saga of how he fought off those racist, homophobic, Trump-loving thugs — with a tuna sandwich in … He held a number of jobs—merchant marine sailor, ditch digger, waiter—before becoming a film student at Columbia College in Chicago. Linkedin. 13 articles. Columnists. State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, facing intense criticism after her office dropped all charges against Jussie Smollett, stood by the decision but said she regretted engaging with one of Smollett’s relatives in the early phases of the investigation. The Chicago Way with John Kass: NFL Hall of Fame writer Dan … 1 ratings. Foxx really didn’t recuse herself. The son of a Greek immigrant grocer, Kass was born June 23, 1956, on Chicago’s South Side and grew up there and in Oak Lawn. Email. Follow @John_Kass Follow @JPCarlin Download this episode here by […] The Chicago Way(02/22/19): From behind the cold Iron Blue Curtain of Illinois politics, John Kass reports on Jesse Jackson, Jr.’s book tour, the real-world cost of Jussie Smollett’s web of lies, and why election math is all about subtraction. Twitter. He’s quite upset because O’Brien said he should recuse himself from the question of a special prosecutor, since his son, a lawyer, works in Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office. On the job, Matches said in a 2008 hearing. Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass was born on Chicago's South Side. John Kass has covered a variety of topics since arriving at the Chicago Tribune in 1983.