Elizabeth Shackelford: An alarming number of people are suffering...
If the world today feels particularly violent, that’s because it is. After generations of progress toward greater peace in the world, the past couple of years have seen that trend reverse. The most...
View ArticleHeidi Stevens: What we take away from our kids — and ourselves — when we turn...
Your kids look so beautiful. They really do. You post photos of them going to prom and going to graduation and going to end-of-the-year banquets and all of these milestone events that will forever...
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Jay Tcath: What DePaul revealed about its pro-Palestinian encampment should...
DePaul University did a true public service by revealing the 1,000-plus complaints made by students, faculty members and neighbors against the unauthorized, anti-Israel tent encampment on its campus....
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Editorial: Lame duck Kim Foxx’s ill-considered policy change that will impede...
Timothy McVeigh, otherwise known as the Oklahoma City bomber, was apprehended many miles away from his heinous crime by a police officer who had merely noticed a yellow Mercury was missing its...
View ArticleLetters: It will always be the Museum of Science and Industry
When my two sisters and I were growing up on the South Side of Chicago in the 1960s, my father would come home after work on Saturday afternoons, and we would hop into his 1963 Chevrolet Impala for a...
View ArticleLetters: Heartbroken over the demise of the great horned owl family in...
I have followed Avani Kalra’s inexorably sad series on the demise, one by one, of the great horned owl family that bred over the winter in Lincoln Park, steps away from the Peggy Notebaert Nature...
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Clarence Page: The congressional circus is back in town, this time over the...
Did you hear about the guy who went to a fight and a congressional hearing broke out? Yes, you may have heard that old joke about a hockey game. But the partisan eruptions in Congress these days...
View ArticleEric Reinhart: Chicago must remove mental health crisis response from CPD’s...
Despite promises of reform after the murder of George Floyd, police officers in the U.S. killed at least 1,247 people in 2023 — more than in any other year in over a decade. These deaths are symptoms...
View ArticleLetters: It would be better for America if the Trump trial were televised
Regarding the trial of Donald Trump and the lack of televised coverage: Trump’s criminal hush money trial could be momentous for American history, but unfortunately, the American people are unable to...
View ArticleEditorial: Chicago’s fragile trade-show business stands to lose if the...
Flanked by displays of lollipops and beef jerky, the Republican governor of Indiana delivered a message for Chicago: Indianapolis is prepared to compete with it for trade-show business. Indiana has low...
View ArticleAnat Shenker-Osorio: Voters are resistant to Donald Trump’s immunity claims
Last week, we learned that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito flew the flag of insurrection a fact as vile as it is unsurprising, at least if you’ve been following the machinations of the MAGA justice...
View ArticleLaura Washington: The economy trumps all when it comes to the presidential race
This November, the presidential election will be about the economy. Period. Rising and elevated prices are the fly in President Joe Biden’s ointment. They cast an ominous shadow over his political...
View ArticleSheldon H. Jacobson: Will the automatic refund policy for air travel cause...
Just in time for summer travel, the United States Department of Transportation has announced sweeping changes that, on the surface, appear to help air travelers get the upper hand with airlines....
View ArticleLetters: DePaul pro-Palestinian protesters lump together the wrong people
“CPD, KKK, IDF, they’re all the same,” the pro-Palestinian protesters chanted. That’s the slogan that caught my attention when I stopped by to see the pro-Palestinian protest at DePaul University on...
View ArticleEditorial: Stop this proposed tower of toxic waste on Chicago’s Lake Michigan...
In 1982, the Illinois General Assembly passed legislation allowing for the conveyance of property along Lake Michigan on Chicago’s Southeast Side to the Chicago Park District in partnership with the...
View ArticleDaniel DePetris: An Iranian hard-liner passes from the scene. What happens next?
On Sunday, Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s ultraconservative president, was flying home after participating in the opening of a new dam near the Iran-Azerbaijan border. But shortly after takeoff, Raisi’s...
View ArticleLindsay Lewis: Saving President Joe Biden’s infrastructure agenda from itself
When an Interstate 95 overpass collapsed in Philadelphia in June, Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro, responded with a master class in executive leadership. Slashing through thousands...
View ArticleAld. Matt Martin: Chicago can do more for adult victims of domestic abuse
Just two months ago, 11-year-old Jayden Perkins was murdered while defending his mother from a serial domestic abuser who had forced his way into the family’s Edgewater home, according to prosecutors....
View ArticleLetters: Bravo to Tribune’s veteran press operators
Congratulations to the Tribune for acknowledging the press operators (“Tribune press operators say goodbye to an era,” May 19). I recall that when I was a teenager, there were more than 100 linotype...
View ArticleEditorial: Sports betting could help the Illinois treasury. But new taxes...
On Tuesday, state Rep. Elizabeth “Lisa” Hernandez, D-Cicero, held a Springfield news conference in support of getting rid of the lower wage typically paid to workers who also receive tips. Chicago’s...
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