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”...
Hokey smoke! 20 finalists in the Tweet of the Week poll!
Instructions: Click the box next to each tweet that amuses you -- no limit to...
Column: ‘Twas the night before Blursday
With understandable apologies to Clement Clarke Moore, here's my update on his "A Visit from...
Column: What are you cooking for Christmas dinner?
Karen Dean, tough as scrap iron, won't let COVID-19 ruin her Christmas dinner. "Bringing out...
Column: Anjanette Young reminds Black women of their ancestors who stood naked on a slave auction block
Once upon a time in America, Black women routinely were forced to stand naked on...
Column: Yes Mom, I’m here.
My mother is 90 years old, one of the elderly isolated in nursing homes, unable...
Column: As the light returns, it’s time to make a list of what we’ve missed, and appreciated, in this dark year
And now the light comes back. At 4:02 a.m. Monday, Chicago time, the winter solstice...
Column: A Cold War approach won’t work with China
It's easy to miss, given how polarized our politics are, but there is a growing...
Column: Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s angry words fall short in response to the new cop video scandal
After stumbling out of the gate early in the week, Mayor Lori Lightfoot began saying...
Column: What’s wrong with Biden’s ‘identity politics’?
In 1980, a presidential candidate pledged to appoint the first woman to the Supreme Court....
Column: 10 (or so) people who gave me hope in 2020, a year when even hoping took a lot of work
It was a year like no other. But in and among the sorrows and struggles,...