Rex W. Huppke

A Facebook whistleblower has confirmed what many have long suspected: The social media giant is profiting off anger and division. That seems like the sort of thing we should all...

I have a great new tourism slogan for Chicago: "This is really sad and nobody is doing anything about it." I'm sure businesses and wealthy folks of all sorts will...

Joe Gutman, the son of Holocaust survivors, grew up in Rogers Park with his parents but his extended family stretched through the community, a patchwork collection of other Jewish refugees...

Officials at Benet Academy, a Catholic school in Lisle, are accused of the following: Offering a woman a job as head coach of the girls lacrosse team, then rescinding it...

For some reason, unvaccinated people who speak out loudly in opposition to vaccines and masks keep dying from the virus that vaccines and masks help prevent. It's a real head-scratcher,...

Now listen, I'm just a mild-mannered Midwestern newspaper columnist, but after watching what happened in the California gubernatorial recall election, my manners are feeling less than mild. We learned Tuesday...

Veronica Wolski was a believer in the deeply unhinged QAnon conspiracy theory. When it came to COVID-19, she was anti-vaccine and anti-mask, at one point standing on a pedestrian bridge...

Great news, folks. I have it on good authority that "Real America" is done with COVID-19! It's a huge relief to know the pandemic is over for real Americans. The...