Ron Grossman – Page 24

People sit on the Main Quadrangle on the University of Chicago campus in the Hyde Park neighborhood in 2018.

Column: Battling over books, professors and the president miss the essence of Western civilization

September 23, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

I'm hardly surprised by Donald Trump's attack on teachers, saying they are corrupting the nation's youth. What throws me for a loop is the University of Chicago's English department pleading...

Chief Francis O'Neill, circa 1901-1905. (baiduhai archive) No attribution on back of print. scanned from print. THIS IS A THUMBNAIL IMAGE.

Flashback: Irish music found a savior in Chief Francis O’Neill, a Chicago cop with a song in his heart

September 18, 2020 at 10:15 a.m.

If Chicago police weren't wrestling with a sensational murder case, the abrupt way Chief Francis O'Neill hung up the phone and summoned the driver of his carriage might have gone...

The Chicago American wrote, "Three of the season's debs who were presented last evening at a gay ball in the Palmer House. They are Senn twins, Dorothy, left, and Barbara, daughters of Dr. and Mrs. William N. Senn, and Florence Otis, seated, daughter of the Ralph C. Otises." The ball occurred on Dec. 26, 1930.

Flashback: The staying power of Chicago’s Palmer House

September 14, 2020 at 10:55 a.m.

Its doors closed indefinitely, Chicago's grand Palmer House Hilton is now smothered in debt and under foreclosure. The storied hotel faces an uncertain future, but nothing like the one that...

Protesters picket outside the WBBM-TV studios in Chicago where vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro was appearing on "The Phil Donahue Show" on Oct. 30, 1984.

Flashback: Geraldine Ferraro’s VP nod in 1984 was a watershed moment — but soon came the smears

August 30, 2020 at 12:18 p.m.

As the Democratic nominee for vice president stepped up to the podium at her party's 1984 national convention, the chanting began: "Gerry! Gerry! Gerry!" It resumed whenever she tried to...

Mrs. Alfred A. Jannotta, from left, Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout and Miss Virginia Brooks show off their suffrage parade costumes and banners in the Chicago Daily Tribune on Feb. 9, 1913.

Flashback: Fighting for the vote and against vice: Virginia Brooks was the Chicago area’s own ‘Joan of Arc’

August 21, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

Unlike her sainted namesake, the Joan of Arc of West Hammond wasn't burned at the stake, though many a sticky-fingered politician and brothel keeper would have relished that. A devout...

Glass is shattered in the Nordstrom store at Wabash and Grand avenues after rioting and looting occurred in the Gold Coast area of the city early in the morning of Aug. 10, 2020.

Column: As prison reform gains more support, is reducing the number of incarcerations really a good idea?

August 12, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

Can someone please explain to me why incarceration has become a dirty word? Because in doing so, it's undermined an assumption that long underpinned an orderly society. The lawless rampage...

A war correspondent stands in the rubble in front of what was once a movie theater in Hiroshima on Sept. 8, 1945, a month after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city.

Flashback: Chain reaction: How Chicago helped give birth to the atomic bomb and bring an end to WWII

August 10, 2020 at 11:10 a.m.

Seventy-five years ago, Col. Paul Tibbets flew the plane carrying the first weapon of mass destruction, an atomic bomb that would shortly bring World War II to a close. After...

The Neiman Marcus store on Chicago's North Michigan Avenue in November 2019. The chain is now bankrupt.

Column: I was amazed by Neiman Marcus 60 years ago; now I’m amazed how long it lasted

August 2, 2020 at 5:02 p.m.

I could've warned Stanley Marcus about digging his Texas spurs into Yankee soil. Neiman Marcus is now bankrupt and shedding some of its far-flung stores, but six decades ago, I...

Aaron Peppers, a Maywood police officer, patrols a hallway at Proviso East High School in Maywood in 2009.

Flashback: The debate rages: Should police be in Chicago’s schools? Here’s the history of their involvement.

July 17, 2020 at 9:59 a.m.

Marie Owens, the first police officer responsible for the safety of Chicago's schoolchildren, didn't have a gun, and her beat ended at the schoolhouse door. Her job was to dig...

The brick three-flat at 6140 Rhodes Ave. has a plaque, shown in 2018, explaining its historical significance.

Flashback: A Chicago family defied a racist real estate covenant. The backlash and legal fight inspired ‘A Raisin in the Sun.’

July 13, 2020 at 10:45 a.m.

The brick three-flat at 6140 Rhodes Ave. is no different from any other in Chicago — except for a U.S. Supreme Court decision that guaranteed its place in American history....

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