Michael Sneed

An elite volunteer corps of therapy dogs is being dispatched to soothe federal, state and city law enforcement agencies waiting to handle any emergencies that occur during the Democratic National Convention.

The CBS News legend was arrested during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago while reporting. Now, the widow of one of the arresting officers tells Sneed, “The mayor was very upset that he was bad-mouthing his city, so he wanted him arrested and removed from the floor.”

I was a street reporter for the old City News Bureau of Chicago in 1968. Battalions of anti-Vietnam War protesters were marching on our city streets, and blood was flowing. Some of us watched in real time the marching of hippies, yippies, women’s libbers and anti-Vietnam War vets morph into mayhem.

Back in 1967, the old Cook County coroner’s office, aka the morgue, was located at 1828 W. Polk St. Then-novice reporter Michael Sneed got a tour she remembers to this day. The lights were flicked on and off to allow her to view the grim and dark cubicles.

Sneed is told President Joe Biden was actually warned a year and a half ago by a top Dem pollster that his reelection was in the doghouse with young voters. Gov. J.B. Pritzker was being urged to run in a primary in case Biden pulled the plug.

Donald Trump’s speech Thursday begs a comparison to the late radio show host’s famous 1978 “So God made a farmer” speech, which got new life in a 2013 Super Bowl ad.

There is no doubt political violence is a horrific stain on American democracy and assassination an abomination. But when you’ve covered politics on and off as long as I have, and you think you’ve seen or heard it all … you haven’t.

It had been a long time since Hendrickson laid eyes on “Sue the T-rex,” the famous fossil she discovered in 1990. “I’m glad I wore the mask ... because I actually started to cry when I saw her.”

The Rev. Michael Pfleger, whose peace marches are legendary, shifts to a media campaign to reach parents.