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”...
Best Chicago architecture of 2020: The design of St. Regis Chicago, a new bridge and the pandemic-ready Rush Hospital raised our sights and spirits
Even as COVID-19 upended, and ended, lives, architecture raised our sights and spirits. Here are...
Column: Former Fulton Market restaurant and Schlitz tavern is safe from wrecking ball — for now — after city revokes demolition permit
A surviving Victorian building in Chicago's rapidly developing Fulton Market district, originally a Schlitz tavern...
Column: Rahm Emanuel belongs in America’s political past, not in Joe Biden’s Cabinet
Joe Biden wouldn't be president-elect if not for African Americans. Now, Black people are waiting...
Column: Lack of draft gold leaves Bears GM Ryan Pace downwind
How can you tastefully write a Golden Moutza of November column with half the country...
Column: Donald Trump is the superspreader president
Judicial nominations normally have an impact on real-world events only in the long run, but...
Column: Elliot Page’s trans announcement makes me grateful to be raising kids in 2020, flawed and chaotic as it may be
I am grateful to be raising kids in this moment in time — flawed and...
Column: Rahm Emanuel doesn’t care about ideological purity tests as he seeks political resurrection from Joe Biden
That wailing you hear involving Rahm Emanuel, President-elect Joe Biden and the left clinging to...
Column: Trump and his ‘rigged election’ liars are going to get someone killed
President Donald Trump and his bad-at-everything, bewilderingly bonkers bandwagon of "rigged election!" liars are going...
Column: A viral COVID-19 photo shows the best of humanity in the worst of times
You might have seen the photograph of a doctor in Houston cradling an elderly man...
The mysterious monolith does not want you to participate in the Tweet of the Week poll.
Instructions: Click the box next to each tweet that amuses you -- no limit to...