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”...
Column: Illinois Democrats are finally standing up to Madigan. When will Washington Republicans stand up to Trump?
Wednesday's blockbuster federal indictment of four major figures in the Commonwealth Edison bribery scandal looks...
Column: How did you get it? And what good are masks if they didn’t protect you? Answers to common reader questions about my COVID-19 ordeal.
On Monday I wrote about my October COVID-19 diagnosis and subsequent hospitalization, and hundreds of...
Column: Pandemic hoarding isn’t the same as regular hoarding, is it?
I have learned a lot about myself during the coronavirus pandemic, as many of you...
Column: Lockdown pols making ‘rules for thee but not for me’ should look to a mayor who didn’t ‘act big’
It's been amusing watching coronavirus lockdown politicians of both parties scrambling to apologize after they've...
Column: The COVID-19 pandemic is spawning false claims about freedom
In the minds of many Americans, the coronavirus pandemic creates a huge danger to constitutional...
Column: Dolly Parton is the closest thing we have to a universally beloved icon. And that was before she helped fund Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine.
Through wars and social movements and a wild ride of presidential administrations, Dolly Parton has...
Column: I’m all for post-Trump healing. But if you called me the N-word, I’ll never forgive you.
Since Donald Trump's defeat, there has been lots of talk about healing. But it is...
Column: Abolish Electoral College? Sure, and why not let ‘majority rule’ on the Bill of Rights?
When we were kids on the playground and there was an angry dispute, someone would...
Double the polls, double the fun
I decided this week to separate the political from the apolitical tweets since Twitter wits...
Column: Take a Thanksgiving lesson from our neighbors up north, eh?
We could learn a thing or two about Thanksgiving from our friends in Canada. First,...