Elizabeth Greiwe –

Commuters wait for an inbound train at the CTA Blue Line Addison Street platform in Chicago on Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017.

The CTA’s Blue Line has a big problem

May 31, 2019 at 4:25 p.m.

If there’s one thing commuting on the CTA Blue Line has taught me, it’s patience. I need it when I’m standing behind five rows of fellow commuters vying to get...

A Blue Line train passes over the elevated 2.7-mile 606 Trail between North Ridgeway Avenue and North Ashland Avenue near North Winnebago Avenue in May 2016.

Can millennials afford a future in Illinois?

May 11, 2019 at 4:10 a.m.

Should I stay in Illinois? I'm only 24 years old, and it's a question I cannot escape. It comes up when I'm out with friends and during family get-togethers. It...

This illustration appeared in the Chicago Daily Tribune on Sept. 16, 1900.

When men feared ‘a resolute woman with a hatpin in her hand’

May 11, 2019 at 4:08 a.m.

On a rainy January morning in 1898, Sadie Williams boarded the Blue Island Avenue cable car on her way to a funeral. The car was empty except for one other...

Anne of Green Gables and me, BFFs after all these years

May 11, 2019 at 4:03 a.m.

If a character in a book can be your best friend, I found mine when I was 10 years old. Her name is Anne — always spelled with an "e."...

Judge’s reading assignment a smart crime-fighting idea

May 11, 2019 at 3:55 a.m.

There are three ways to handle hate: Ignore it, spew it back or root it out. When faced with sentencing five teens who defaced a historic black schoolhouse in Virginia,...

Badly shaken, but almost able to walk, a man is assisted from the crash scene on Feb. 4, 1977. Others had to be rushed off on stretchers. More than 160 people who were injured were taken to nine different hospitals. Many initiallyreceived some first aid in stores and buildings near the crash.

The ‘L’ crash of 1977: ‘A slow-motion horror’

May 11, 2019 at 3:52 a.m.

Every day, Robert and Kathleen Ferbrache would ride the "L" home together after work. He was a collector for a finance company on Adams Street, she was a receptionist for...

A holiday card is seen among letters at the on the busiest mailing day of the year for the U.S. Postal Service on Dec. 14, 2015 in Miami, Fla.

Don’t let your holiday card be a glorified selfie

May 11, 2019 at 3:47 a.m.

There are two things I hate about this time of year: out-of-tune caroling and bad Christmas cards. Or rather, holiday cards — bad taste isn't limited to Christmas. Why? I'll...

I won ‘Hamilton’ tickets. You could too — just you wait.

May 11, 2019 at 3:49 a.m.

I have two words for "Hamilton" fans who still haven't snagged tickets: Have faith. I'm talking to you, the wide-eyed dreamers who enter the smash-hit musical's online ticket lottery every...

Pokemon Go did what Fitbit failed to do: Get people moving

May 11, 2019 at 3:29 a.m.

A Western Australian police department took a strange call on Sunday. Two "suspicious males," wearing dark colors and winter hats, were spotted walking in circles and staring at their phones...

Policeman Stephen Schumack, left, leads a crippled man to a police wagon on July 22, 1954, from the skid row area in Chicago.

How an ‘ugly law’ stayed on Chicago’s books for 93 years

May 11, 2019 at 3:26 a.m.

In 1881, Chicago Ald. James Peevey had a mission: to rid the city of "all street obstructions." By street obstructions, Peevey didn't mean food carts, construction materials, roadblocks or potholes....

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