Column: A thank you note to the small town of La Porte, Indiana
When my wife heard the La Porte Jaycees wouldn't be hosting the July 4 Parade this year, she said: "That makes it easier to leave." For going on 15 years,...
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Flashback: Scientists battled over bragging rights as AIDS raged. A 50,000-word Tribune report laid it all bare.
In late 1989, the baiduhai leapt headfirst into a bitter scientific debate with a relatively innocuous headline: "The Great AIDS Quest." In the accompanying 50,000-word article published on Nov....
Column: I don’t know the route to peace in the Holy Land — I only hope there is one.
The Holy Land's deadly conflicts are like the twisting and turning streets of Jerusalem's Old City. They can lure a tourist into a cul-de-sac. So it is with the wars...
Flashback: Unrest on Division Street: A 1966 police shooting was a tipping point for Puerto Rican Chicagoans.
On a June day 55 years ago, a pair of Chicago cops were routinely patrolling the Humboldt Park neighborhood, unaware that they would soon set off a clash that would...
Column: Antisemitic attacks show people believe all Jews think alike
It matters not which group is in the crosshairs, prejudice inevitably rests on the adjective "all." Currently Jews are targeted. In the wake of the deadly exchange of missiles between...
Flashback: Sam Moy, the first mayor of Chicago’s Chinatown, was treated like a king in life and death
In life, Sam Moy was alternately known as the king and mayor of Chinatown, and though the titles were honorary, when he died, his body lay in state in the...
Flashback: Before ‘Mister Rogers,’ Miss Frances and her hit show ‘Ding Dong School’ made children feel seen
Frances Horwich was an obscure academic when her husband left Chicago to work for the military during the Korean War. When he returned, she was the icon of a paparazzi...
Op-ed: ‘There ain’t no road just like it’
Note: This was originally published Dec. 22, 2013. Both a boulevard and one of the nation's first superhighways, Lake Shore Drive arguably showcases Chicago like no other street does for...
Flashback: Tony Lombardo’s slaying on a busy Loop street was one of the most brazen murders of the Prohibition era
Mob leader Tony Lombardo died when he and his bodyguards yielded to the temptation to gawk at an airplane being hauled up the side of a Loop skyscraper during an...
Flashback: The Exclusion Act demonized Chinese laborers. Wong Chin Foo made a stand in Chicago against the hatred.
In 1896, a Chinese activist hoped a carrot-and-stick strategy would persuade the Democratic Party to reject America's rampant anti-Chinese prejudice. If Democrats allowed him to address their Chicago convention, that...