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Isolating in your pineapple under the sea? Pass the time with the Tweet of the Week survey

April 14, 2020 at 3:45 p.m.

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Sister Jaime Mitchell helps pack bags of food for seniors March 24, 2020, at Mission of Our Lady of the Angels in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. Chicago police assisted the church in delivering the supplies to senior citizens who couldn't visit the regular food pantry because of the pandemic.

Column: Behind Gov. Pritzker’s exaggeration is this truth: The pandemic is bringing out the best in most of us

April 10, 2020 at 5:39 p.m.

Yes, it was cringeworthy when Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker lapsed into cheap political pandering at his daily COVID-19 crisis briefing Thursday. "The truth is that Illinois is home to the...

President Donald Trump speaks at the daily coronavirus task force briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Wednesday, April 8, 2020.

Column: Sis boom … bah! The nation doesn’t need Trump to be a ‘cheerleader.’ It needs him as head coach.

April 9, 2020 at 4:54 p.m.

Why did President Donald Trump mislead the public so dramatically about the threat posed by the novel coronavirus? Why did he say on Jan. 22 that "we have it totally...

No one could have predicted another double-length Tweet of the Week poll!

April 7, 2020 at 4:50 p.m.

The coronavirus/COVID-19 tragedy is epic and suffocating, yet it's bringing out many solid quips on joke Twitter. The poll this week is double its usual size to accommodate what I...

Justin Reyes administers a COVID-19 test to Maria Suarez outside Heartland Health Centers in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood on July 10, 2020.

Column: It’s sad but, frankly, not surprising that the pandemic has caused the cancellation of Hot Dog Fest

April 7, 2020 at 6:01 p.m.

It may seem odd that organizers on Monday officially canceled the Chicago Hot Dog Fest, a three-day event in Lincoln Park that had been scheduled to begin four months from...

Ken Zurek, 63, at his home in Highland, Ind. on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020.
Ken Zurek and his wife arrived in China days before news broke of the coronavirus. They cut their trip short because of the virus and decided to self quarantine themselves in their Highland home for 15 days, just as an extra precaution.
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Column: What are the proper terms of confinement for us to be using during this time of, uh, physical distancing?

April 5, 2020 at 5:19 p.m.

I move that we start using "C-19" as shorthand for COVID-19 (which is itself a truncation of "coronavirus disease 2019"). Yes, C-19 saves only one syllable — or four keystrokes...

Dr. Paul Casey takes video calls at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center, which is using telemedicine to screen and treat patients, on March 6.

Column: Remote learning, telemedicine and Zoom show us the internet should be free

April 4, 2020 at 3:37 p.m.

Never has the internet seemed so important. With so many of us ordered to stay at home in the effort to stem the spread of the coronavirus, the ability to...

A white sheet hangs off a window ledge at an apartment in the 1700 block of West Huron Street on Tuesday, March 31, 2020, in Chicago. Sheets are hanging out of Chicago apartment windows to symbolize the difficulties renters are facing in paying April rent because of COVID-19.

Column: A rent strike is a terrible idea that will make terrible times even worse

April 2, 2020 at 6:30 p.m.

Today it's the tenants. Rent is due this week, and some renters and the nearly 200,000 Illinoisans who've recently lost their jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic are finding it...

Stay home! It will give you more time to consider the 20 best tweets of the week

March 31, 2020 at 2:47 p.m.

The coronavirus/COVID-19 tragedy is epic and suffocating, yet it's bringing out many solid quips on joke Twitter. The poll this week is double its usual size to accommodate what I...

Column: The small pleasures of being cooped up during a pandemic

March 31, 2020 at 2:02 p.m.

Yes, this is horrible. More than 3,000 Americans are already dead of COVID-19, with the daily number of fatalities projected to continue to grow for at least another two weeks....

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