Clarence Page: Beware the charm of our rising chatbots By Clarence Page October 19, 2026 at 5:00 a.m. Besides the existential risks of artificial intelligence, consider how AI chatbots insinuate themselves in the...
Edward Keegan: Is the minimalist fieldhouse in Chicago’s Cragin Park architecture or just a building? By Edward Keegan October 19, 2026 at 8:09 a.m. The Cragin Park Fieldhouse expresses a clear architectural character with its exposed steel structure. I...
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...
Column: In the debate, Trump kept demonizing immigrants By Steve Chapman March 11, 2024 at 1:58 p.m. A fanatic has been defined as someone who can't change his mind and won't change...
Column: Pritzker’s COVID-19 shutdown and the death of those great independent restaurants we love By John Kass October 23, 2020 at 5:00 a.m. What will Gov. J.B. Pritzker's legacy — and that of the other political coronavirus lockdown...
Column: To vote is to hope By Mary Schmich October 23, 2020 at 5:00 a.m. I walked my ballot up to the drop box at the neighborhood high school a...
Column: Trump’s debate performance was fantastic! He didn’t burn down the stage or kill a single person. By Rex W. Huppke October 23, 2020 at 5:35 p.m. Hello, I am a political pundit who watched the final presidential debate before the November...
Column: In memory of the amazing James Randi, ignore the charlatans and listen to science By Eric Zorn October 23, 2020 at 5:36 a.m. James Randi was the worst enemy charlatans ever had. Randi, who died Tuesday at age...
14 stories chopped from Near North Side apartment proposal but neighbors still fighting the development By Ryan Ori October 22, 2020 at 1:08 p.m. Fifield Cos. has chopped 14 stories from its proposed apartment tower on the Near North...
Column: Open House Chicago just got extended. Here’s what to see on new smartphone architecture tours. By Blair Kamin October 22, 2020 at 7:41 a.m. Necessity, it's often said, is the mother of invention. So it is with this year's...
Column: I watched my sister die, so I understand what Rush Limbaugh is going through By Dahleen Glanton October 22, 2020 at 5:00 a.m. It appears that Rush Limbaugh is dying. He announced on his radio show Monday that...
Column: A day in the pandemic: Mr. Meticulous and his mask By John Kass October 22, 2020 at 5:00 a.m. In the parking lot of a Tony's supermarket in Chicago, alone in his car, the...
Column: Will Joe Biden end the wars Donald Trump hasn’t? By Steve Chapman October 21, 2020 at 4:23 p.m. If you listened long enough to Donald Trump during his first presidential campaign, you could...