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”...
A new tenant for Fulton Market: A gym, made out of shipping containers
Nearly a year into a pandemic that has reshaped the way Americans exercise, a Chicago...
Column: Conservative mystery donor threatens to upend Insult-A-Columnist food drive by matching donations
The Third Annual Insult-A-Columnist Holiday Food Drive is a little more than halfway done, and...
Column: Sports movies and the Chicago Fire. Is 2021 their year?
America's sports fans love a good sports movie, and though I'm no filmmaker, I'm one...
COVID-19 has devastated Chicago real estate, but it’s amplified calls for equity. Will 2021 be a year of progress on the South and West sides?
Next year is setting up as quite the balancing act for commercial real estate and...
Column: Good news for grannies: Chicago moves cautiously to legalize coach houses
In May I published a column headlined "Wait a sec! Is it really time to...
Column: Naperville sisters die after car crash on drive home to visit their parents for the holidays. ‘They devoted their whole life to raising those girls.’
The terrible news of the Yang sisters' deaths traveled fast and far. Angel, 29, and...
Column: Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s apology doesn’t undo the trauma Chicago police inflicted on an innocent woman during botched raid
Some Chicagoans are beginning to wonder who Mayor Lori Lightfoot really is. The person they...
Column: It’s OK to be sad for COVID Christmas. Who isn’t depressed?
My wife was decorating our little Christmas tree. And there was a song on Spotify...
Column: White supremacists should have First Amendment protection
The advantage of living under the First Amendment is that it allows you to speak,...
Column: For 59 years, she’s treated a family of 9 siblings to dinner at the Walnut Room. This year, they brought the Walnut Room to her.
Monday night should have been Rose Haddad's annual dinner next to the giant Christmas tree...