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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”...

President Donald Trump gives two thumbs-up to supporters as he departs after playing golf Nov. 8, 2020, at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling Virginia.

Column: Loser: A poem about Donald Trump

By Mary Schmich

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

This is the latest in my ongoing series of TrumPoems chronicling the presidency of Donald...

A sign posted on a lawn reads "Bye Don" as general election ballots are still being tabulated in Philadelphia on Nov. 10, seven days after the country went to the polls. The state was called for Joe Biden on Saturday.

Column: Talking unity while playing with fire

By John Kass

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

Just after the media declared him the presumptive president-elect of the United States, Democrat Joe...

What a world of merriment the Tweet of the Week poll foretells!

By Eric Zorn

November 16, 2020 at 12:29 p.m.

Instructions: Click the box next to each tweet that amuses you -- no limit to...

The hands of a Biden supporter and a Trump supporter gesture as they argue while Trump supporters demonstrate against the election results outside the TCF Center in Detroit on Nov. 5.

Column: Another autopsy? Time for both parties to examine themselves

By Clarence Page

November 10, 2020 at 3:14 p.m.

Call me skeptical, but something doesn't make sense about President Donald Trump's refusal to concede...

Supporters of presumptive President-elect Joe Biden taunt supporters of President Donald Trump as they protest outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia on Nov. 8, 2020, a day after the 2020 election was called for Biden.

Column: Twitter bites back with clever postelection quippery

By Eric Zorn

November 10, 2020 at 12:39 p.m.

"Gotta love how breaking the United States Postal Service, encouraging supporters to vote in person...

People celebrate in Chicago's Andersonville neighborhood after former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was announced as the winner.

Column: Dear Trump supporters: I’m sorry Joe Biden won. It’s definitely my fault that you hate me.

By Rex W. Huppke

November 9, 2020 at 12:40 p.m.

If one thing's clear in the wake of President-elect Joe Biden's presumptive victory over President...

Demonstrators march to advocate protecting the voting results Nov. 7, 2020, in Los Angeles, after Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden was announced as the presumptive winner over President Donald Trump.

Column: Breathe, America. Donald Trump’s knee is off your neck.

By Dahleen Glanton

November 10, 2020 at 12:29 p.m.

Breathe easy, America. Donald Trump's knee is no longer on your neck. You rose, more...

President Donald Trump delivers a statement on the election in the White House briefing room on Nov. 5.

Column: A Trump concession speech: ‘I hereby concede that I beat Sleepy Joe Biden’

By Rex W. Huppke

November 7, 2020 at 12:17 p.m.

As a devoted supporter of President (for life) Donald Trump, I refuse to even begin...

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden arrives to speak one day after America voted in the presidential election, on Nov. 4, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware.

Column: The huge challenge awaiting President-elect Joe Biden

By Steve Chapman

November 7, 2020 at 11:41 a.m.

When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, The Onion, a satirical newspaper, had this...

Stacey Abrams speaks to supporters of Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden on Nov. 2, 2020, at Turner Field in Atlanta.

Column: Let’s give thanks for poll workers, Stacey Abrams, fact-checkers — and the weather

By Mary Schmich

November 6, 2020 at 7:31 p.m.

Hey, fellow Joe Biden supporters. Let's pause for a moment to be glad. It's true...

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