Edward Keegan: Is the minimalist fieldhouse in Chicago’s Cragin Park architecture or just a building??
The Cragin Park Fieldhouse expresses a clear architectural character with its exposed steel structure. I...
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Elizabeth Shackelford: Trump’s abhorrent Russian diesel deal defies US laws and won’t lower gas prices
Donald Trump has illegally undone sanctions efforts against Russia. For all of this, Americans won’t...
Heidi Stevens: Shane Gillis ‘SNL’ opener misses the mark — and the moment
The most disappointing thing about Shane Gillis’ shopworn, hackneyed, tone-deaf, retrograde, unfunny “Saturday Night Live”...
Column: Trump loves the mob that stormed the Capitol. What a surprise. What a disgrace.
"We love you." Donald Trump had access to a fire extinguisher Wednesday — a video...
Column: Chaos in Washington begs question: What if crowd who swarmed the US Capitol was Black or Muslim?
On CNN Wednesday, as a mob of Trump supporters stampeded through barricades and broke through...
Column: Georgia delivers a victory for moderation
In recent years, the American political system has featured a clash of extremes. Republicans moved...
Column: What’s wrong with public schools? It’s not the mofongo, it’s the unions.
To understand what's gone wrong with big city public education — where militant teachers union...
Column: Time to pick a guiding word for 2021. Mine is ‘endurance.’
Endurance. The word popped into my brain near the end of December, sooner than I'd...
Poll: Against all odds, we have another 20-entry Tweet of the Week survey!
Instructions: Click the box next to each tweet that amuses you -- no limit to...
Column: Curiously, there is almost nothing to admire about our nation’s ‘most-admired man’
Set aside President Donald Trump's policies and his politics for the moment and consider his...
‘Lazarus,’ the musical, made no sense. Then David Bowie died. Now you can see for yourself.
Look up here, man, I'm in danger I've got nothing left to lose I'm so...
Macy’s closing Water Tower Place flagship store on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile
Macy's is closing its flagship store in Water Tower Place, creating a huge vacancy on...
Column: Chicago Public Schools teachers aren’t showing up for in-person classes — and I don’t blame them a bit
About half of the Chicago Public Schools teachers who were supposed to return to their...