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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”...

House Speaker Michael Madigan smiles before Gov. J.B. Pritzker's budget address in Springfield, Feb. 19, 2020.

Column: If there’s no Boss Madigan, who’ll herd the cats with Illinois in crisis?

By John Kass

November 6, 2020 at 7:08 p.m.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin have just made their moves on Mike...

Pro graduated-rate income tax amendment signs line a walkway near an early voting site in Palatine on Nov. 2, 2020.

Column: Second-guessing the campaign for the ‘fair tax’ that went so foul

By Eric Zorn

November 7, 2020 at 3:07 p.m.

Tuesday's defeat of the referendum calling for a state constitutional amendment to allow for graduated...

President Donald Trump arrives for a Latinos for Trump Coalition roundtable at Arizona Grand Resort & Spa in Phoenix on Sept. 14, 2020.

Column: Yes, Donald Trump has Black and Latino supporters. Democrats can learn from it.

By Clarence Page

November 6, 2020 at 2:29 p.m.

Could this be the election that ends the "Latino vote"? No, I'm not talking about...

Airickca Gordon-Taylor, center in purple, and the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., both cousins of Emmett Till, speak outside Roberts Temple Church of God In Christ in Chicago on Aug. 28, 2015. They led a motorcade to Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the death of Emmett Till. Till's funeral took place at Roberts Temple in September 1955.

Column: Emmett Till house makes strides toward becoming an official city landmark and a museum

By Blair Kamin

November 6, 2020 at 2:29 p.m.

The South Side house of Emmett Till, whose brutal murder helped spark the civil rights...

Office chairs are stacked on shelves Nov. 4, 2020, at Office Furniture Center in Chicago's Lawndale neighborhood.

For office furniture sellers during a pandemic, there’s no place like home

By Ryan Ori

November 6, 2020 at 3:42 p.m.

Before COVID-19 sent most Chicago workers home in March, office furniture resellers took orders for...

Column: Oh, say can you see that big blue wave?

By John Kass

November 6, 2020 at 5:00 a.m.

Americans need something majestic to look at now, what with lawyers contesting the outcome of...

Sen. John McCain at a presidential campaign rally in Tampa, Florida, in 2008.

Column: Memo from John McCain in heaven

By Mary Schmich

November 5, 2020 at 10:39 p.m.

TO: The American People FROM: John McCain DATE: Nov. 5, 2020 SUBJECT: My hope for...

Column: Our elections are a mess. From far left to hard right, we should all agree to fix them.

By Eric Zorn

November 5, 2020 at 3:04 p.m.

How about now? How about taking advantage of the unnecessary and agitating delay in learning...

Candidate for Cook County state's attorney Pat O'Brien' concedes the race outside his election night event, Nov. 3, 2020, at White Eagle Events & Convention Center in Niles.

Column: Boss Preckwinkle and that political hit on Judge Toomin for Kim Foxx

By John Kass

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

After her impressive reelection victory the other night, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx made...

President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House early on Nov. 4, 2020, in Washington.

Column: By contesting the election, Trump is trying to disenfranchise millions of Black voters.

By Dahleen Glanton

November 5, 2020 at 5:02 p.m.

If Donald Trump ends up getting kicked out of the White House, it seems fitting...

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