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Milwaukee residents wait in line to vote on Tuesday, April 7, 2020, at Riverside University High School.

Column: Did Wisconsin coronavirus election boost Democratic hopes for a mail-in presidential election?

April 10, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

Will Democrats use fear of the coronavirus — and that hot mess of an election in Wisconsin the other day — to push for their ultimate power fantasy, a national...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks at City Hall on April 8, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic.

Column: Lightfoot’s liquor curfew might rile some, but she’s doing the right thing

April 9, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

The last thing Chicago needs right now is a bunch of drunken small-government libertarians shrieking about Mayor Lori Lightfoot's curfew on liquor sales that goes into effect at 9 p.m....

Adeeb Joude, the custodian in charge of the ancient key to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, closes the entrance gate to the church because of the coronavirus pandemic in Jerusalem's Old City on March 25, 2020.

Column: A lamentation for churches closed at Easter by the coronavirus pandemic

April 9, 2020 at 10:59 a.m.

The ancient Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem was last closed during the Black Death of the 1300s. Then came the coronavirus pandemic. And now a video circulates across...

Column: ‘Alone’ vs. ‘Tiger King’: Which reality show is best for coronavirus shutdown?

April 4, 2020 at 1:18 p.m.

You're alone out there now, isolated, stuck in your home during the coronavirus shutdown, hitting the fridge, getting fat, and talking to yourself about how you can't find a good...

White Sox broadcasters John Rooney and Ed Farmer call game action in the first inning against the Cubs at Wrigley Field on July 7, 2000.

Column: The kid from the South Side and the voice of the Sox: Ed Farmer, RIP

April 3, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

After days of bad coronavirus news and thick gray skies, there was finally some sun. And it felt, finally, like baseball. The mind reaches out for it, the memory of...

Margaret Cirko sits in a police car after her arrest March 26, 2020, in Hanover Township, Pennsylvania. Cirko was facing terroristic threat and weapons of mass destruction charges alleging she threatened to expose people to the novel coronavirus, after she went into a supermarket and coughed on $35,000 worth of produce and meat.

Column: Golden Moutza of March provides some light amid the darkness of coronavirus

April 1, 2020 at 6:49 p.m.

The Golden Moutza of the Month award is the ultimate trophy, even in these dark coronavirus times, offering something of great value glinting from its golden fingertips: light. Because you...

One of Chicago's most popular tourist destinations, the Cloud Gate sculpture, is devoid of visitors on April 1, 2020, in a closed-to-the-public Millennium Park in Chicago.

Column: What will be the lasting image of our coronavirus pandemic?

April 1, 2020 at 7:13 a.m.

When terrorists strike, or a natural disaster rushes up on us, there are images we remember, photos we recognize. Our minds wrap easily around them and we say, yes, this...

John Kass announces to his neighbors he's leaving by putting his smokers at the curb.

Column: Unmoored amid the coronavirus

March 27, 2020 at 6:05 p.m.

During this coronavirus shutdown, as so many of us have become unmoored, finding it difficult to process all the changes we're facing, I wondered: What's the safe way during the...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks March 24 during a news conference at the Jacob Javits Center, which will house a temporary hospital in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Column: As Andrew Cuomo ascends during coronavirus pandemic, Joe Biden fades

March 27, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

Does Joe Biden deserve what's happening to him during this coronavirus pandemic? Not really. Deserve has nothing to do with presidential politics or the coronavirus. But somebody has something to...

An aerial view of an empty North Sheffield Avenue at Wrigley Field in Chicago on March 23, 2020. Major League Baseball Opening Day was scheduled for March 26 but was pushed back due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Column: Without sports because of coronavirus, can fans live on bread alone?

March 26, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

In this time of self-isolation during the coronavirus pandemic, can we live on bread alone, without any sports to spread on it? All sporting events have been shut down. And...

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