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Speaker Michael Madigan on the floor as the Illinois House convenes at the Bank of Springfield Center on Jan. 8, 2021.

Column: The Illinois plane, with no pilot, is going down

January 13, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

The Boss Madigan drama is offered like some entertaining "Game of Thrones," with all the Illinois political Littlefingers plotting and scheming. But this play by House Speaker Michael Madigan is...

Trump supporters participate in a rally Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

Column: When politics become too personal: What we didn’t talk about at Sunday dinner

January 8, 2021 at 6:25 p.m.

In the pre-COVID-19 days, there were those large, intergenerational Sunday dinners when nothing was off the table for discussion in America. Even now, if we were sitting down together, we'd...

Parishioners raise their hands in worship as the Rev. Michael Pfleger leads the Sunday morning service at St. Sabina Church on June 6, 2021. "It's good to be home," an emotional Pfleger said to a packed and jubilant crowd at St. Sabina Church — his first time leading a congregation in five months.

Column: The silence of Father Mike

January 8, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

Chicago's celebrity lefty political priest, the Rev. Michael Pfleger, is strangely silent. He's in crisis, facing allegations of sexual abuse of a minor from 40 years ago. Most of us...

Column: Trump owns this

January 7, 2021 at 9:35 a.m.

There is one man responsible for what happened in Washington on Wednesday, as America watched the heart of the republic under the assault of an angry mob: Donald Trump. It...

Sarah Chambers, who was a Chicago Teachers Union board member at the time, speaks at a news conference outside of then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office in 2017.

Column: What’s wrong with public schools? It’s not the mofongo, it’s the unions.

January 6, 2021 at 4:12 p.m.

To understand what's gone wrong with big city public education — where militant teachers union bosses dictate urban school policy and politics — just look to Chicago and the saga...

People walk through a tunnel of holiday lights during the annual ZooLights display at the Lincoln Park Zoo on Dec. 7, 2020.

Column: Tonight is the night of new hope for the world

December 24, 2020 at 5:00 a.m.

For all children who should be loved always, but especially tonight, with our arms around them and a long good-night kiss on the temple, a kiss more precious than anything...

Tribune columnist John Kass will be making his onion soup for Christmas.

Column: What are you cooking for Christmas dinner?

December 21, 2020 at 4:47 p.m.

Karen Dean, tough as scrap iron, won't let COVID-19 ruin her Christmas dinner. "Bringing out the best china, Waterford goblets and silk tablecloth," said Dean. "Fast food always tastes better...

John Kass writes that his mother is 90 years old and one of the elderly isolated in nursing homes for the holiday.

Column: Yes Mom, I’m here.

December 19, 2020 at 9:04 a.m.

My mother is 90 years old, one of the elderly isolated in nursing homes, unable to hug and kiss her children, alone because of the pandemic. And this will be...

Chicago Fire's Djordje Mihailovic controls the ball during a MLS soccer match against Orlando City SC at Exploria Stadium on Sept. 19, 2020, in Orlando, Florida. Chicago Fire traded the homegrown midfielder to the Montreal Impact.

Column: Sports movies and the Chicago Fire. Is 2021 their year?

December 18, 2020 at 5:00 a.m.

America's sports fans love a good sports movie, and though I'm no filmmaker, I'm one of those crazed Chicago Fire fans who likes sports movies. You may have heard whispers...

Christmas ornaments hang on a tree at the Water Tower in Chicago on Dec. 14, 2020.

Column: It’s OK to be sad for COVID Christmas. Who isn’t depressed?

December 17, 2020 at 5:00 a.m.

My wife was decorating our little Christmas tree. And there was a song on Spotify — the Joni Mitchell piece about wanting a river to skate away on. "It's coming...

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