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”...
Full results of the ‘Predict the News of 2020’ survey
Total Responses 871. My responses are in boldface type. Poll closed Dec. 30, 2020 1....
Column: Why rush teachers and students back into classrooms now, CPS? Widespread COVID-19 vaccination is on the horizon.
Monday marks the scheduled return of about 7,000 teachers and staff to Chicago Public Schools...
Column: Looking back on 2020: A pants-less year of isolation and fervent hand-washing
As a columnist, I'm required by law to write a late-December column looking back on...
Column: An Evanston family lost everything in a fire 2 days before Christmas. Their neighbors rushed to help make them whole.
Jordan Jackson has a little morning routine. He runs from the living room in his...
Column: Two cheerleaders and the F-I-G-H-T for free speech
In some ways, it makes perfect sense that the future of free speech on the...
Column: These top 40 tweets brightened up the often grim year 2020
As a public service, each week I collect and present online a list of the...
Alexa, what are the top 10 funniest tweets this week?
Instructions: Click the box next to each tweet that amuses you -- no limit to...
Column: Are we doing New Year’s resolutions after a year as lousy as 2020? There’s one I think we need more than ever.
What do we resolve after a year like 2020? On the one hand, surviving it...
Column: The year of the virus, the year of the mask. Be gone, 2020, that’s all that we ask.
Goodbye, 2020! Good riddance, farewell! You've maxed out our patience You've put us through hell....
Column: The pandemic nixed foreign travel but opened our eyes to the exotic appeal of our city’s streets
Perhaps it's because I only became addicted to travel in my 50s that I'm haunted...