Ah, I long for the good ol’ days, when Chicago was a hotbed of murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation, adultery and treachery, and that was just the weekend.

Life is full of fun surprises, and some of the best are known to happen at The Loop Taste of Chicago.

While the food at Luke's Italian Beef, 6741 N. Thornydale Road, doesn't promise to be friendly to the waistline, it does promise to fill you up, said co-owner Chris Amadori.

December 6, 2006 - It looks as if Chicago's south side baseball team may be on the verge of packing up its sox and heading out of town - not from the Windy City, rather the Old Pueblo.

Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson and Mark Rusin, owner of The Loop Taste of Chicago, go way back. In 1969, when Rusin was a 14-year-old freshman at Quigley South High School on Chicago’s south side, a young Father Kicanas taught there. He was just out of the seminary and became a teacher and mentor to the future restaurant owner.

College football fans yelling for Notre Dame and Southern California filled the sports bar at The Loop Taste of Chicago Restaurant in Oro Valley on Saturday.

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Although we are only in the NBA conference semi-finals, it already feels like the finals with tempers flaring, elbows swinging and fines being dished out. Each matchup is different and there is little consistency of play, however there is a pattern emerging in this round of the playoffs.  

I love local theater, and so I was excited to attend the Studio Connections’ production of the musical “Chicago” last weekend. Unfortunately, the show faltered in spots and left me disappointed, but there were no problems that couldn’t be fixed before the show enters its final run this weekend.

I’m tired of those who claim the cronyism and corruption of Tucson’s city government are akin to Chicago’s. It insults Chicago. Detroit, in all its squalor and incompetence, may be a better example.

The owners of an Oro Valley eatery have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court.

Kirkpatrick running from record

The Arizona Diamondbacks are playing 19 spring training home game at Tucson Electric Park, two “away” games at Tucson’s Hi Corbett Field and 15 games in greater Phoenix during their 12th Tucson spring training in 2009, the club announced Thursday.