Scoopsville: President-elect Barack Obama's personal pitch to lure the 2016 Summer Olympics to Chicago is no surprise to Sneed. On Oct. 30, this column tipped word of Obama's lead Olympic role.
Sneed's exclusive last Wednesday that Sen. Hillary Clinton was a dark horse in the race to be named secretary of state is causing a furor in Sen. John Kerry's camp.
Sneed hears rumbles a dark horse is in the race for secretary of state: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
It's a sad script: Former Channel 5 reporter Amy Jacobson, whose controversial "bikini" firing last summer made headlines, is having a tough go.
The latest from Blagoville: Is Gov. Rod Blagojevich toying with tossing Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat to Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, who wants Blago's job?
Sneed's sore loser award goes to defeated GOP Cook County State's Attorney candidate Tony Peraica, who never phoned Dem opponent Anita Alvarez to concede or congratulate her on her win. Give me a break.
The Big Buzz: Sneed hears Barack Obama was eyeing U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff and was not nixing the idea when privately queried. Word is state Dem committeemen were already talking about Rahm's replacement at the Obama Grant Park rally Tuesday night if a special election were to replace Rahm. Stay tuned.
"I did the right thing," said former Ald. Ed Vrdolyak, who stunned everyone by pleading guilty to fraud charges Monday shortly before his trial was to begin.
It's no surprise to Sneed that no more tickets are available for the Obama election rally in Grant Park next Tuesday.
Sneed hears that jailed press baron Conrad Black, the former owner of the Chicago Sun-Times now serving time in a Florida prison for defrauding his newspaper empire, is seeking a pardon and/or clemency from President Bush before he leaves office.
Sneed hears a plan is afoot to impeach Gov. Blagojevich following the presidential election next month. Word is the votes are there. Stay tuned.
Sneed hears Aldermen Ed Burke (14th) and Leslie Hairston (5th) plan to take a page out of a 1920s Chicago history book.