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A young woman reacts as she looks at her damaged home after Russia's night missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Oct. 14, 2026. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)

Elizabeth Shackelford: Trump’s abhorrent Russian diesel deal defies US laws and won’t lower gas prices

By Elizabeth Shackelford

October 16, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Donald Trump has illegally undone sanctions efforts against Russia. For all of this, Americans won’t...

Saturday Night Live Host Shane Gillis during the monologue on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. (Will Heath/NBC/TNS)

Heidi Stevens: Shane Gillis ‘SNL’ opener misses the mark — and the moment

By Heidi Stevens

October 16, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

The most disappointing thing about Shane Gillis’ shopworn, hackneyed, tone-deaf, retrograde, unfunny “Saturday Night Live”...

Former Indiana U,S. Rep. Lee Hamilton, who was co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, in his office at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington on Nov. 24, 2006. (Pete Souza/baiduhai)

John T. Shaw: We need Congress to ponder the long term with a new future-focused group

By John T. Shaw

October 14, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Half a century ago, many lawmakers viewed their responsibilities differently and created a forum to...

Logan Square residents Olivier Crenon and Barbara Kaufman, who built an Eiffel Tower out of snow on Sunday on Logan Boulevard, appear Feb. 1, 2021.

Column: The Logan Square couple behind Eiffel Tower made of snow: ‘We thought, ‘If we can’t go to Paris, we’ll bring Paris to us.’

By Heidi Stevens

February 5, 2021 at 12:32 p.m.

Their mission wasn't necessarily a joyful one, though it was rooted in plenty of love...

The central area on the first floor where the food court will be located with tenant escalators to the second floor at the Old Post Office on Sept. 18, 2019.

Uber looks to shed more of its Old Post Office space

By Ryan Ori

February 5, 2021 at 2:27 p.m.

Uber Technologies is looking to offload another big block of its planned office in The...

The Fields buildings can be seen, Feb. 4, 2021, in Chicago. There are plans in the works to bring a film production campus to The Fields, a mixed-use redevelopment of former Marshall Field's warehouses at 4000 W. Diversey Ave.

Film production studio, which could create hundreds of jobs, eyed for former Marshall Field’s warehouse complex on Northwest Side

By Ryan Ori

February 5, 2021 at 11:12 a.m.

The owner of a sprawling former Marshall Field's warehouse complex wants to bring a touch...

Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady looks before throwing a pass during the first quarter against the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field on Oct. 8, 2020, in Chicago.

Column: A COVID-safe Super Bowl party plan: Loathing Tom Brady, maximizing meats … and a nacho fountain!

By Rex W. Huppke

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

Super Bowl weekend is here, and before I get into some slam-dunk (that's a football...

A car is covered with filthy snow from a plow in the 4000 block of North Kedzie Avenue in Chicago on Feb. 1, 2021.

Column: Everybody hates snirt. And if you don’t know what that is, read on.

By Mary Schmich

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

We've entered the season of snirt. You probably know snirt even if you don't know...

Column: A movie for our cultural winter: ‘Black Robe’

By John Kass

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

For months I'd been searching for a movie that I'd first watched years ago, a...

A Lake County sheriff's deputy watches protesters outside the Lake County Courthouse on Sept. 25, 2020, in Waukegan. An extradition hearing was being held inside for Kyle Rittenhouse, of Antioch, who is charged in the fatal shootings of Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum in August during protests in Kenosha.

Column: The Kyle Rittenhouse story is looking more and more like a rerun of George Zimmerman

By Eric Zorn

February 4, 2021 at 5:18 p.m.

Kyle Rittenhouse, like George Zimmerman before him, is turning out to be every bit as...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill on Oct. 23, 2019. Ocasio-Cortez on Feb. 1, 2021, said she was a sexual assault survivor, a disclosure she made during a personal recounting of her experiences during the pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Column: Cruel response to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s trauma tells me we haven’t yet outgrown #MeToo movement

By Heidi Stevens

February 4, 2021 at 3:28 p.m.

A year ago this week we were locked in a heated battle over a stripper...

People look at Rivian's R1T Truck on display during an open house in Normal, Ill. on Oct. 13, 2019.

Electric vehicle maker Rivian plans Fulton Market showroom. ‘Chicago is a key location for us.’

By Ryan Ori

February 4, 2021 at 9:54 a.m.

Electric vehicle maker Rivian plans to open a showroom in Chicago's Fulton Market district, in...

Hal Holbrook, nominated for an Oscar for best actor in a supporting role for his work in "Into the Wild," is pictured at the Academy Awards in 2008.

Whoopi Goldberg, Gilda Radner, John Leguizamo and many more: They all owe a solo debt to Hal Holbrook

By Chris Jones

February 4, 2021 at 7:00 a.m.

What was the greatest solo show you ever saw, or maybe wish you had seen?...

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