Riley O'Neil and Joe Dredge in the morning

I don't follow many rules in life but one of my steadfast ones is, if I see a new Mexican restaurant in town, I'll try it as soon as possible.

With the new Jurassic Park movie raking in millions of dollars at the box office, dinosaurs are once again at the front of public consciousness. But millions of years ago, when there was very little public consciousness, were there dinosaurs running around what is now Illinois?

Throughout the state of Illinois today, several people are going to call their dog a "big pain in the ass," but only one of those people is going to be literally and provably correct.

For the first time in a while Bear fans will be allowed AND will actually want to watch the Chicago Bears practice during training camp.

How widespread are spam calls? Think about this for a second: over the last year, nearly 60 million Americans say that they lost money as a result of being phone-scammed for a nationwide total of almost $30 billion.

If you think about it, there's probably a good chance that the job you hold now probably didn't even exist in Illinois back 150 years ago (1872), with scattered exceptions.

This is less a story about the failure of Notre Dame and more a story on the savages from Arkansas.