‘Fiscal cliff’ not too precipitous

WASHINGTON — My bet is President Barack Obama and GOP and Democratic congressional leaders do not make a final deal by year end to avoid the “fiscal cliff” — the negotiations will spill over a few months. Even if the Dec. 31 deadline passes without …Read More

• CPS tier system update changes chances of getting into selective school

  The chances of getting your child into a selective-enrollment school will change for about a quarter of Chicago’s families next year under the latest update of the public school tier system. About 12 percent of Chicago census tracts were assigned to a higher tier, making …Read More

• Notre Dame campus atmosphere ‘insane’ over football prowess

  SOUTH BEND, IND. — Here come the Irish. And they are more pumped than a gaggle of wee leprechaun fortune hunters who stumbled onto a shiny pot of gold. Notre Dame is the country’s top ranked college football program for the first time since 1993.

• Ditka released from hospital after suffering minor stroke

  After spending the better part of the weekend at a north suburban hospital following what was described as a minor stroke on Friday, former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka was headed back home.