Rex W. Huppke – Page 8

Chicago police officers trail the ambulance carrying the body of a Officer Ella French into the Cook County medical examiner in the early morning hours of Aug. 8, 2021.

Column: Chicago police officer’s death can be honored by tracing the path that led her killer to shoot

August 10, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

I wish there was a way to roll a violent Chicago weekend backward, to rewind it like a film, to watch the bullets fly back into the guns that fired...

USA's Megan Rapinoe, right, runs with the ball while under pressure from Australia's Clare Polkinghorne during their Olympic bronze medal match, Aug. 5, 2021, in Kashima, Japan.

Column: How to become UN-WOKE so you can be an Olympic #winner like Donald Trump!

August 6, 2021 at 7:43 p.m.

Bad news, folks. I've been diagnosed with wokeism, which apparently makes me "a wokester" and guarantees everything I do will go horribly wrong. I don't quite know what it means...

Englewood resident Fannie Peeples gets a Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine from Friend Health nurse Syreetta Stinson at the Peace House of I Grow Chicago, March 26, 2021. I Grow Chicago teamed with Friend Health to provide 150 vaccines, coffee and doughnuts at the event.

Column: A simple plan to end U.S. vaccine hesitancy: Serve the COVID vaccine deep-fried on a stick

August 5, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

After minutes of careful sociological research, I've discovered the reason many Americans still refuse to get the free, safe and wildly effective COVID-19 vaccine: It can't be eaten. To date,...

Festivalgoers pack a Red Line subway train at the Harrison station after the second day of Lollapalooza on July 30, 2021.

Column: Why did Lightfoot claim 90% of Lollapalooza attendees were vaccinated? It was in a tweet.

August 2, 2021 at 6:17 p.m.

There's a life-or-death tug-of-war happening between those pushing COVID-19 vaccinations and those grasping at any excuse to doubt or avoid the vaccine. To win, vaccine advocates — also known as...

Nyjah Johnson, 19, from left, David Gonzalez, executive director of The Port Ministries, Cosette Nazon-Wilburn, executive director of LUV Institute, and Nadia John, 24, are collaborating on Chicago Stories on the Block, a new storytelling, visual and performance art project.

Column: Chicago youth storytelling program focuses on art and beauty, not violence

July 30, 2021 at 12:33 p.m.

Nyjah Johnson is searching her Englewood neighborhood for stories untold, stories that push back on the narrative drummed into Chicagoans' minds that the place she calls home is solely a...

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

Column: Inside the GOP response to the Jan. 6 hearings: If all else fails, start chanting ‘LOCK HER UP!’

July 28, 2021 at 5:11 p.m.

Through one of my well-placed (and possibly imaginary) sources, I have received this VERY NOT MADE UP text of a speech delivered this week during a Zoom meeting attended by...

The sun rises over a memorial to George Floyd in Minneapolis on June 25, 2021, the day that former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was scheduled to be sentenced.

Column: George Floyd Square stands strong as some try to bulldoze it with ‘critical race theory’ hysteria

July 27, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

It's Sunday and there's a respectful silence at George Floyd Square, as if people's voices are pressed down to whispers by the gravity of the signs, the colorful murals, the...

In this April 15, 2019 file photo, Rep. Tim Rudd, R-Murfreesboro, speaks during a House session in Nashville, Tenn. Rudd, the sponsor of Tennessee's new law requiring businesses and government facilities to post signs if they let transgender people access their preferred, multi-person public bathrooms now says those who refuse could face up to six months in jail. Rudd said this week that the misdemeanor penalty could apply.

Column: Cynical GOP laws barring transgender youth from sports will fail, but kids will be hurt along the way

July 23, 2021 at 8:10 a.m.

More than 250 bills seeking to limit the rights of LGBT people have been brought up or passed in state legislatures across the country this year. Many target transgender youth...

Workers set up Grant Park in Chicago on July 21, 2021, for the upcoming Lollapalooza music festival.

Column: Lollapalooza feels like a COVID mistake waiting to happen

July 28, 2021 at 9:55 p.m.

The Lollapalooza music festival and the delta coronavirus variant are on a collision course in Chicago, and the four-day event may well be a canary in a coal mine as...

Column: Biden is ‘rightfully and respectfully’ president, Capitol rioter says at sentencing as consequences bring truth

July 20, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

As he faced the Dawn of Consequences, Paul Allard Hodgkins, a 38-year-old Florida man who carried a "Trump 2020" flag on the floor of the U.S. Senate during the Jan....

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