Edward M. Burke –

This April 1865 image provided by the Library of Congress shows Federal troops in front of the Appomattox Court House near the time of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender to Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, in Appomattox, Va.

‘Bells across the Land’ a fitting time to mark Civil War’s end

May 11, 2019 at 2:18 a.m.

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we...

Mayor Jane Byrne chats with participants in the Festival of Hope for Soviet Jewry at the Bernard Horwich Community Center in 1982. During the rally Byrne issued a proclamation declaring solidarity with Soviet dissident Anatoly Sharansky, who was petitioning to leave the Soviet Union.

Why the ‘evil cabal’ made peace with Mayor Jane Byrne

May 11, 2019 at 2:04 a.m.

It has been said that Margaret Jane Byrne is Chicago's "forgotten mayor," that several generations of schoolchildren, and for that matter adults who might not have been around during the...

STOPPING VANDALS

August 9, 2021 at 10:44 p.m.

I take exception to your mean-spirited editorial criticizing the City Council for banning the sale of spray paint and thick markers. You offer no convincing arguments for why the ban...

BURKE`S VIEW ON MAYOR`S TAX PLAN

August 9, 2021 at 3:59 a.m.

The Tribune editorial of Sept. 3 called for quick reinstatement of Mayor Washington`s record-high property tax. Your editorial argues that we have no choice. It also entertains the notion that...

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