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The new Cragin Park Fieldhouse stands Oct. 15, 2026, in Chicago’s Belmont Cragin neighborhood. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Edward Keegan: Is the minimalist fieldhouse in Chicago’s Cragin Park architecture or just a building??

By Edward Keegan

October 18, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

The Cragin Park Fieldhouse expresses a clear architectural character with its exposed steel structure. I...

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”...

The Ghebremichael family, Nardos, center, Emanuel, right, and son, Luke, have brunch together at their home in Chicago on Dec. 13, 2020.

Family traditions during coronavirus

By Contributed Content

December 14, 2020 at 2:33 p.m.

From showing up on a Zoom call in your long-ago wedding dress to switching the...

In this 1950s file photo released by the National Archives, a Black man included in a syphilis study has blood drawn by a doctor in Tuskegee, Alabama. Historic failures in government response to disasters and emergencies, medical abuse, neglect and exploitation such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study have jaded generations of Black people into a distrust of public institutions.

Column: Don’t blame African Americans for fearing the COVID-19 vaccine. Blame America.

By Dahleen Glanton

December 14, 2020 at 5:00 a.m.

There aren't many African Americans who don't know about the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. At some...

A man walks past the shuttered Cinemas Entertainment movie theater in the 3300 block of West Roosevelt Road on Sept. 6, 2020, in Chicago.

Column: Going out to a movie. Remember?

By John Kass

December 11, 2020 at 6:59 p.m.

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need," said Marcus...

Column: This is the best holiday song of 2020 — the year of muddling through somehow

By Mary Schmich

December 11, 2020 at 6:17 p.m.

Today, we announce the Best Holiday Song of 2020, the year of muddling through somehow....

Column: How to survive a carjacking and other timely scraps of advice

By Eric Zorn

December 14, 2020 at 3:37 p.m.

Another dispatch from Somebody Nobody Asked(TM), America's preeminent unsolicited advice columnist. Dear Local Motorists: Let...

President Donald Trump waves next to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in Dallas on June 11, 2020.

Column: Republicans bowing to Trump are undermining American democracy

By Steve Chapman

December 11, 2020 at 6:24 p.m.

The collapse of the Soviet Union, one of the most momentous events of the 20th...

The best path to avoid catching COVID-19 from a surface, including holiday cards, is frequent hand-washing, says a Rush epidemiologist.

Column: Should you avoid licking your holiday card envelopes during a COVID-19 pandemic? We asked an epidemiologist.

By Heidi Stevens

December 14, 2020 at 5:04 p.m.

Sealing envelopes with a lick has always left a funny taste in the mouth, but...

Column: Take the great leap, Joe: Hunter or Rep. Eric Swalwell for China ambassador

By John Kass

December 11, 2020 at 5:50 a.m.

Joe Biden and the Democrats have some serious China problems. And I'm going to help....

Fabiola Rodriguez, right, receives groceries at the food pantry at Harmony Community Church in the Lawndale neighborhood Dec. 9, 2020. The Greater Chicago Food Depository supplies the food pantry.

Column: COVID-19 pandemic causes surge in food insecurity. Any relief bill should boost SNAP payments.

By Rex W. Huppke

December 14, 2020 at 4:39 p.m.

Let's consider some facts about food insecurity in Chicago. Right now, as the coronavirus pandemic...

Two pedestrians in the 4000 block of West Congress Parkway on Dec. 9, 2020, in Chicago.

Column: Walking through the pandemic. It’ll save your sanity.

By Mary Schmich

December 11, 2020 at 5:00 a.m.

I've been out walking. And walking and walking and walking and walking and walking. In...

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