Letters: Why are we not talking about the bullying that happened on the...
Donald Trump and Joe Biden are both too old to be president of the United States. Everyone is entitled to a bad night; however, the exception to that is the president of the United States. Too much is...
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Cyraina Johnson-Roullier: Juneteenth expands upon the Fourth of July’s...
Juneteenth and the Fourth of July represent sacred remembrances of freedom — albeit freedom of different kinds, in different contexts and with different histories. If you thought the most important...
View ArticleEditorial: Chicago finally gives Route 66 some respect
The Mother Road commands enormous international interest: A few years back, Paul McCartney left his place in the Hamptons for a road trip on America’s old Route 66 in a 1989 Ford Bronco, hoping (yet...
View ArticleColin Fleming: Embrace your freedom this Fourth of July by being a buff
Everything in life has a gist, no matter how complicated that thing may be. The gist of America’s push for independence — what we’ll call the Fourth of July gist — went something like, “We can and...
View ArticleColleen Kujawa: Small acts of grace summon the good in Chicagoans
I came to Chicago from northwest Indiana with a soft belly, so to speak. Not naive but hopelessly earnest. I’ve spent 12 years living and working in this crowded, noisy and, at times, intimidating...
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Letters: A protected bike lane gave me the safety and freedom to ride in Chicago
Editor’s note: We asked readers who are cyclists to tell us about their experiences on city streets and to share their thoughts about Chicago’s bike infrastructure. Here is a selection of those...
View ArticleShadi Bartsch-Zimmer: It’s time to end the two-cultures era between science...
The melody of human progress up to the present has played on two grand instruments: science and the humanities. But for the last few hundred years, these instruments have been treated as separate...
View ArticleEditorial: Ransomware nightmare in Hoffman Estates shows how important law...
While most Chicagoans were busy enjoying the start of summer, a high-stakes hostage drama played out at a company with deep roots in suburban Hoffman Estates — and in car dealerships from coast to...
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David McGrath: I built a family cabin as an investment in America
On an evening in April many years ago, I sat alone at a corner table in the Lakewood Cafe & Hotel in the northwestern Wisconsin town of Winter (current population: 331). I was an English teacher at...
View ArticleLetters: Cyclists in Chicago need drivers to do their part to ensure their...
Editor’s note: We asked readers who are cyclists to tell us about their experiences on city streets and to share their thoughts about Chicago’s bike infrastructure. Here is a selection of those...
View ArticleTribune Opinion quotes of the week ending July 6
The news doesn’t sleep, even during holiday weeks. This week started with a bombshell Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity and continued debate over whether Joe Biden is the best Democratic...
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Garry Wills: Will this year’s DNC resemble Miami or Chicago in 1968?
We Chicagoans are wondering if it is tempting fate to hold the Democratic National Convention here in August after the 1968 Chicago convention, which occasioned what was called “a police riot,” one...
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Editorial: Jamie Dimon kept his promise made 20 years ago to Chicago
Two decades ago, Chicago’s political and business leaders were dismayed to see Jamie Dimon, who’d taken this city’s civic scene by storm in less than five years, selling Bank One to JPMorgan Chase. The...
View ArticleClarence Page: What exactly is a ‘Black job,’ Mr. Trump?
“Black jobs”? It’s a simple phrase, but what does it mean? More specifically, what did it mean when Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump insisted in his debate with President Joe Biden that...
View ArticleEditorial: A UK victory for Labour and ‘No Drama Starmer.’ It doesn’t take...
The Labour Party’s demolition of the chaotic Conservative Party in Britain’s July 4 general election is another marker of the reassertion of sensible, fiscally sound centrism and, above all, the...
View ArticleLetters: Here’s why CTA riders are deeply frustrated with the agency and its...
I find it disingenuous and discouraging for CTA President Dorval Carter Jr. to profess not to be aware of rider issues. Those of us who travel regularly on the CTA No. 6 express bus have submitted...
View ArticleLaura Washington: After this year’s pandemonium, Chicago’s Pride Parade...
There was Pride and pandemonium in Lakeview. On June 30, Chicago’s Pride Parade kicked off in the North Side neighborhood. Pride is one of the largest parades in the nation, a time to celebrate LGBTQ+...
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Letters: Takeaways from the US Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision
In reading the summary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s immunity decision and the subsequent comments from politicians, news analysts, legal experts and law professors, one would think that democracy is...
View ArticleJuliet de Jesus Alejandre: Allow Chicago leaders with vision to usher in real...
What Chicago needs is solidarity. Two-thirds of Chicagoans are people of color. That is a powerful number. There are those who don’t want Black and brown Chicagoans to live into that power. Mayor...
View ArticleEditorial: Welcome back, piping plovers! But we have a little advice for you.
Chicago began its love affair with the Great Lakes Piping Plover in 2019, when a mated pair named Monty and Rose chose the unlikely nesting site of urban Montrose Beach to raise their chicks. Now at...
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