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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”...

Billionaire Joe Mansueto pays more than $54 million for Waldorf Astoria hotel, adding to his notable Chicago real estate holdings

By Ryan Ori

November 18, 2020 at 2:02 p.m.

Billionaire Joe Mansueto has bought the Waldorf Astoria Chicago, scooping up the luxury hotel at...

A protester calling to defund the Chicago Police Department marches in downtown Chicago in August.

Column: How ‘defund the police’ sabotaged Democrats on Election Day

By Clarence Page

November 17, 2020 at 2:05 p.m.

Democrats won the White House, whether President Donald Trump wants to face that non-alternative fact...

Susan Clapp, right, and her mother, Lois Perrone, will participate in the Pie It Forward effort.

Column: Pie It Forward challenge preserves best of annual South Side Pie Challenge, but with COVID-19 precautions

By Heidi Stevens

November 17, 2020 at 12:39 p.m.

November is normally when Julie Vassilatos is nailing down final details for the South Side...

Margaret Orozco pushes her bike to get tested for coronavirus outside Loretto Hospital in Chicago on April 27, 2020.

Column: I took a COVID-19 test as a precaution. A week later, I was hospitalized.

By Heidi Stevens

November 17, 2020 at 8:36 a.m.

I got the call on a Tuesday that my COVID-19 test came back positive, and...

People stand in lines on the last day of early voting in Lake Worth, Florida, on Nov. 1, 2020.

Column: Voter fraud is fake. Voter suppression is real.

By Dahleen Glanton

November 16, 2020 at 5:00 a.m.

America is long overdue for a serious conversation about disenfranchised voters. But let's be clear....

Azalee Irving, 17, takes care of her nephew, Ja'King Jones, 4, at home in Chicago on Nov. 13, 2020. Irving made a three-minute film titled "Little Hands, Big Help" about taking care of her nephew.

Column: This filmmaking program allows young women ‘cycle breakers’ to share what they see in the world

By Mary Schmich

November 16, 2020 at 10:45 a.m.

On Monday evening, Azalee Irving's short documentary will be streamed by the Gene Siskel Film...

Independence Library, 4000 block of N. Elston Avenue in Chicago, Aug. 21, 2019.

Column: Amid a pandemic that isolates us, Chicago architecture awards recognize designs that build community

By Blair Kamin

November 13, 2020 at 6:00 p.m.

Shifting its awards program online for the first time, the Chicago chapter of the American...

Stantis cartoon for Eric Zorn Nov. 15, 2020, column
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Column: Whatever you call it, a video-conference Thanksgiving will be the way to go

By Eric Zorn

November 16, 2020 at 12:16 p.m.

In an online departmental chat the other day, our editor asked the opinion team about...

A lakefront wall at Northwestern University's Ryan Fieldhouse and Walter Athletics Center has won a design award from the American Institute of Architects' Chicago chapter. The wall protects the fieldhouse from the pounding of Lake Michigan waves.

Column: Now THAT’S a big, beautiful wall; award-winning lakefront barrier at Northwestern shows how to upgrade infrastructure

By Blair Kamin

November 15, 2020 at 9:27 a.m.

The subject of today's column: a big, beautiful wall. Not that wall, the one President...

Northwestern’s big, beautiful wall

By Contributed Content

November 13, 2020 at 2:15 p.m.

A 400-foot-long wall that protects a Northwestern University field house and athletics center from the...

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