Scott Fornek

Kissing was discouraged, public dancing was outlawed, and spitting on sidewalk became a police matter, as the Sun-Times reported in this story originally published Oct. 16, 2005.

History shows Cook County voters prefer having the same party in the White House and as state’s attorney. But they have no problem dumping incumbent prosecutors of either party.

Scott Fornek, an assistant news editor at the Sun-Times, wrote this updated take on the classic Mike Royko column.

The appearance of the 17-year cicadas this year will mark the fourth emergence of the red-eyed, orange-veined creatures in my lifetime — thus, my fourth cicada birthday, Scott Fornek, an editor at the Sun-Times, writes.

The former president speaks at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night. At the 1996 convention, months before the start of his second term and the scandals that came with it, he saw an America "on the right track."

It was 56 years ago that another sitting vice president accepted their party's presidential nomination in Chicago. That was Hubert Humphrey, and he did not win. Few sitting vice presidents do.