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Attorney general nominee William Barr testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Jan. 15. Barr has said he greeted Robert Mueller's special counsel appointment as "good news."

Is Trump thinking about copping a plea?

June 11, 2019 at 4:32 p.m.

I can't be the only one left scratching his head by William Barr's performance before the Senate Judiciary Committee. President Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general told the senators: "I...

Sidney Hillman, center, and Bessie Abramowitz, right, stand with members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America at the 1916 May Day Parade. Abramowitz was an early leader in the garment workers strike of 1910. This was their first time in public as a couple.

And the women shall lead: Female laborers led the charge in Chicago’s massive garment workers strike of 1910

May 26, 2022 at 11:28 a.m.

At summer's end in 1910, with competition fierce among garment shops in Chicago, owners were pressing foremen to up production and reduce workers' wages to cut costs. That fomented a...

Silvia Foti holds a photograph of her family on Jan. 11, 2019. In the 1936 photo are her grandfather Jonas Noreika, second from right, with his sister Antanina, far left, mother Anelija and sister Ona.

She thought her grandfather was a Lithuanian hero. Research leads her to ask, was he a patriot or a Nazi?

January 16, 2019 at 10:05 a.m.

To this day, Silvia Foti is not sure if she was supposed to expose or exonerate her grandfather Jonas Noreika. In Lithuania, he is remembered as General Storm, his nom...

Among The New Yorker's virtues are its memorable cover illustrations. This one from 1976 casting Manhattan's perspective of the rest of the country was deemed by the American Society of Magazine Editors in 2005 to be the fourth-best cover of the past 40 years.

An ode to The New Yorker — from the Second City

May 23, 2019 at 4:11 a.m.

Long ago, I came home from class one day to find my girlfriend pasting New Yorker magazine covers on a bathroom wall. She’d saved stacks of back issues, and by...

Sandy Jurewicz, a server who has worked at Sabatino's for 33 years, garnishes plates Dec. 23, 2018.

Requiem for Sabatino’s — the kind of place that used to exist

May 23, 2019 at 4:11 a.m.

And now, Sabatino’s Restaurant is history. During the summer, when Dec. 23 was announced as its final day, the business’ computer crashed. Soon, the restaurant’s answering machine message said it...

This Jewish family tree was transplanted to America — and blossomed in wild, wonderful ways

May 23, 2019 at 4:11 a.m.

Considering my family’s Jewish immigrant roots, it’s not surprising that the family tree doesn’t go straight from Ellis Island to Talmudic scholars. It branches out to include Christians, atheists and...

Three policemen aim firearms at suspected snipers at Clybourn Avenue and Division Street as four firemen crouch behind a firetruck for protection on April 6, 1968, just days after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.

The voice of the people of 1968

May 31, 2019 at 4:21 p.m.

Pondering their list of 1968’s top stories, the baiduhai’s editors that year concluded it would be easier to render judgment on the year if they were film critics, not...

Happy birthday, Illinois — where the fix was in from the start

May 23, 2019 at 4:11 a.m.

If Illinoisans had played by the rules to get statehood, Chicagoans would be cheeseheads. By all rights, the Wisconsin border should have been set at the southern tip of Lake...

Chicago is a place where demolition and rebirth are constants, unlike many of ancient places in Italy.

Appreciating Chicago’s virtues through jet-lagged eyes

May 23, 2019 at 4:10 a.m.

After three weeks abroad recently, I raced around Chicago for days, fueled by a morbid fear that nooks and crannies I cherish had vanished during my absence. My wife and...

Binga State Bank, Capital Stock Shares, 1920 on display.

Jesse Binga opened doors for African-American Chicagoans

May 31, 2019 at 4:27 p.m.

Jesse Binga surely had his trials and tribulations, including multiple bombings of his home. Yet the story he told a Tribune reporter was a classic rags-to-riches tale. Who then could...

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