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Heidi Stevens: ‘I had every conceivable emotion.’ What happened when one...
At the end of August I wrote a column about Teresa Strasser, whose mother spent a lifetime showing up and loving and healing from the deep, quiet childhood wound of having absolutely no one show up at...
View ArticleEditorial: Try to remember this kind of September
April may be the poet’s cruelest month but September surely is Chicagoland’s most gorgeous. This year’s edition has been a real corker so far: warm days, slightly cooler evenings and, day after day,...
View ArticleGary Grasso: My wife and I witnessed the wedding of the perfect couple
“The Perfect Couple” is the current Netflix rage — an adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s best-selling novel set on Nantucket Island off of Massachusetts. Of course, the setting is perfect, but the...
View ArticleLetters: Downtown celebrants of Mexican Independence Day shouldn’t continue...
I concur with Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce CEO Jaime di Paulo’s thinking in his Sept. 18 letter to the editor (“Celebration of pride, identity”) about coming up with a solution to work...
View ArticleState lawmakers: Our new justice system without money bond prioritizes public...
It has been a year since Illinois took the historic and courageous step toward transforming our criminal legal system by implementing the Pretrial Fairness Act and ending the use of money bond. We are...
View ArticleElizabeth Shackelford: We need the United Nations in the peacekeeping...
Each September, the United Nations General Assembly kicks off its annual session with high-level meetings and pomp and circumstance in New York. This is the forum where the world’s countries come to...
View ArticlePaul Vallas: How has a year of the SAFE-T Act affected crime victims?
As we approach the one-year anniversary of Illinois’ SAFE-T Act, proponents are in high gear with a concerted public relations campaign. Their message? This criminal justice system reform is a rousing...
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Jitu Brown and Ald. Jason Ervin: Chicago has zero tolerance for any school...
Last week, the debate about Chicago Public Schools, its budget and its future took a new and alarming turn. The new information should be a disqualifier for CPS leadership in the eyes of anyone in the...
View ArticleEditorial: Not every finance major can be an investment banker. We need more...
America’s most famously boring profession is in trouble, and that’s bad news for Chicago. The city is a hotbed of professional services, including lawyers, consultants and the now-endangered species of...
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Clarence Page: ‘Rhetoric’ has scary consequences for Springfield, Ohio
Sometimes amid the hoopla and hogwash of political events, I find myself jerked alert by an unintentional truth that manages to break through. Such appeared to be the case when U.S. Sen. JD Vance, the...
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Letters: If Donald Trump is gone, the Democrats would lose votes
An assassination attempt appalls any sensible person. That aside, as a political matter, the last thing Democratic operatives want is for someone to point a gun at Donald Trump. Politicians gain...
View ArticleEditorial: Chicago’s school board has a duty to taxpayers to back Pedro...
They say you can’t fight City Hall. But Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez is doing just that, refusing to bow to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s desire to replace him with a new boss of the city’s...
View ArticleDaniel DePetris: The US looks impotent as warfare between Israel and...
Last month, I wrote in this section that Israel and Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia based in southern Lebanon, were moving toward an all-out war after nearly a year of relatively contained fighting...
View ArticleSheldon H. Jacobson: Will a federal inquiry into airline loyalty programs...
The Department of Transportation is investigating the airline loyalty programs associated with the four largest carriers — American, United, Delta and Southwest. The focus of the investigation is on...
View ArticleEditorial: Domestic tourism likely to roar back in 2025. Is Chicago ready?
Americans traveled abroad in record numbers in 2024. That was partly a consequence of aspirational trips being delayed by the pandemic, partly the long-term shift in spending toward experiences and...
View ArticleAllison Danielsen: Apple CEO Tim Cook is right. The US manufacturing...
As we were preparing for the International Manufacturing Technology Show — IMTS 2024 — this month in Chicago, the largest gathering of the creators, builders and drivers of manufacturing in the...
View ArticleLetters: Mayor Brandon Johnson needs to lead or get out of the way
I’m a 40-plus-year Chicagoan who has dedicated the past decade of his life to help lift underserved neighborhoods on the South and West sides through life mentoring and vocational training programs for...
View ArticlePedro Martinez: Why I’m not resigning as CPS chief and we’re not closing any...
My story is the quintessential journey of hope, one on which education serves as a pathway to a better future. Like many before and after me, I arrived in Chicago as an immigrant from Mexico, at the...
View ArticleLetters: Mayor Brandon Johnson is correct in stance against ShotSpotter
The controversy about renewing the city’s ShotSpotter contract got additional fuel from the Sept. 12 op-ed written by staff at the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab (“ShotSpotter helps gunshot victims...
View ArticleEditorial: How should Americans feel about Israel’s pager offensive? The...
When the terrorist organization known as Hezbollah found its pagers exploding in its members’ faces, presumably following Israeli manipulation of the group’s supply chain, many Americans struggled with...
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