Dawn Turner Trice

Of course, Mayor Richard Daley's announcement last week about Washington Park smacks of politics. The city wants to tack on the South Side park to the revised plan to lure...

Commonwealth Edison's Chairman and CEO Frank Clark has a nice face. It's a kindly, fireside-chat-type face that serves him well in those TV commercials ComEd has been running in recent...

You've probably heard some variation of the fable of the three men in the dark room who touch a part of the elephant--the trunk, the tail, the side--to identify what...

There are no mountains in Chicago. At least none beyond the metaphorical ones, which means that if you want to experience the majesty and restorative powers of a mountain, you...

Man, you guys are brutal. Last week, I told you about the common-courtesy signs I'd hang on CTA and Metra train walls. I called them my "Rules of the Ride"...

Tribune transportation reporter Jon Hilkevitch and staff reporter Gerry Doyle last week told you about the botch job the CTA did in creating 3,000 new over-the-door rail system signs. Street...

In early July, a group of 22 Middle Eastern students arrived at Benedictine University in Lisle as part of the U.S. State Department's Middle East Partnership Initiative. The students, ages...

Scott Drawe is a manager of the Chicago Public Library's Near North Branch. His patrons are black, white, affluent and not so, and come from neighborhoods as varied as the...

Recently, I asked you to send your thoughts on whether the black middle class is doing enough to help poorer blacks. I heard from so many of you. This is...

We can almost liken most accounts of violence in Chicago to city street noise, akin to the blare of sirens, car horns and alarms. We hear the sound. It nudges...