Michael Sneed

The legendary Chicago Bears coach and his wife are "doing great" in Florida, but missing Chicago, Diana Ditka told Sneed. And no more stogies for Iron Mike. “No. Finally stopped. Done.”

A sister and brother spent almost two years in an Alton orphanage before they were reunited with their parents. “The bond we formed when we were alone, in a strange country, without our parents, was never broken,” Grace Dickler said after her brother's recent death.

Voters once again failed to elect a highly qualified woman as president of the United States — in favor of a narcissistic, crude, rude, clown-car driver of a candidate. And I was left with more questions without answers, including: Will I ever see a woman in the Oval Office?

Sneed could swear she hears the faint sound of chiseling in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory. Is it Trump hammering out plans to realize his childhood dream of being installed on Mount Rushmore?

Sneed gets the latest news on the former Bears coach.

Once again, it’s time for Sneed’s decades-old annual Thanksgiving Day gratitude list and a special hope for peace and civility at our Thanksgiving tables and a focus on the joy of simple abundance and the gift of life.

Take a moment to remember what happened in an instant 83 years ago and how that war's many deaths reverberated for decades.

What happens when a dog's owner dies? Thanks to a retired police lieutenant, a no-kill shelter and a woman who heard about Keto, it's all good news.

Marian “Cindy” Friend Pritzker was the wife of Hyatt Hotels founder Jay Pritzker and mother to their five children. She was also the aunt of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker. She headed the Chicago Public Library Board and with her husband co-founded the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

In a career that started in old-school newsrooms with surly editors barking orders, Sneed spent decades working with other Sun-Times legends and reporting on dignitaries across the globe.