Editorial: What Chicago has lost with the demise of the Pitchfork music festival
The news that the annual Pitchfork music festival is no more in Chicago sucked some of the soul out of this struggling city. For two decades the three-day festival in Union Park in July was a highly...
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Laura Washington: Here’s a post-election to-do list for Democrats
There is nothing worse for a columnist than realizing that your view of the world does not jibe with your audience’s worldview. The same holds true for a political party, and in the case of the 2024...
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Editorial: There was a time when restaurateurs like Billy Lawless got help...
Billy Lawless, who died Friday at the age of 73 and who will be eulogized Thursday, was an Irish immigrant to Chicago who became one of this city’s most successful restaurateurs, developing such...
View ArticleLetters: May Donald Trump take the grace that has been given him
I am a Christian, and I get upset when it is assumed that all Christians have the same worldview. I do not believe that Donald Trump survived the assassination attempt because he is God’s chosen one....
View ArticleChristine Ledbetter: Kamala Harris lost because our country fosters...
We’ve been here before. Dwelling in this purgatory inhabited by heartbreak. Only days past hope, we stare ahead at years of despair. The Champagne my husband and I planned to drink with our daughter...
View ArticleJ. Marcos Peterson: I am a Mexican American who voted for Donald Trump. No, I...
I’m a proud, first-generation, college-educated and gay Mexican American with undocumented family in the United States, including a mother who was previously deported to Mexico, and I experienced...
View ArticleWillie Wilson: Any property tax increase to balance Chicago’s budget is...
After pushback from aldermen, residents and businesses, Mayor Brandon Johnson has signaled a willingness to cut his proposed $346 million property tax increase. However, Johnson has not sworn off a...
View ArticleEditorial: Who’s the threat to democracy now? Brandon Johnson mocks Chicago...
Five newly elected members of the Chicago Board of Education delivered a blunt message Tuesday to Mayor Brandon Johnson. Yes, their letter was addressed to current members of the school board and...
View ArticleEditorial: Oprah Winfrey should not have asked Kamala Harris for a check
Appearances alongside the likes of mega-celebrities like Beyoncé and Bruce Springsteen did not work out well for Kamala Harris, as endorsements from the superrich were not necessarily helpful in an...
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Letters: I voted for Donald Trump to halt the march of progressivism
I must take issue with Clarence Page’s analysis of the results of Tuesday’s elections and why the Democrats experienced such sweeping defeat (“Will Dems learn from a humiliating loss?” Nov. 10). I do...
View ArticleVictor Shi: Democrats must take a new media approach
In the final month of Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign, she appeared on several so-called “nontraditional” media shows. Most notably, Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy” podcast,...
View ArticleEditorial: Justice is not revenge. The nomination of Matt Gaetz as attorney...
“The implacable logic of retribution will prove as appalling as the crime itself,” observes the loyal-to-a-fault Macduff in William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” “consisting of the soul’s slow agonizing...
View ArticleLetters: How does Donald Trump hold this much power?
Donald Trump’s continued rise is a layered approach that started long ago. One of the most effective things Trump did when he came down the escalator stairs in 2015 was to drill in the idea that we...
View ArticleJim Nowlan: Illinois doesn’t have enough college students. How can we improve...
Illinois doesn’t have enough college students to go around, and college-going numbers in our state are almost certain to decline further. Total enrollment in Illinois has declined by more than 20%...
View ArticleElizabeth Shackelford: Might makes right. Welcome to the new world disorder.
Donald Trump’s resounding election to a second term as U.S. president sealed the deal on a new world disorder. The liberal, rules-based order that had shaped the rules of the game since World War II...
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Emily Williams: A Black trans Army veteran vanished in the Bahamas. Why won’t...
Five months ago, Taylor Casey, a 42-year-old Black trans woman from Chicago, vanished from a popular tourist destination, the Sivananda Yoga Retreat Center Bahamas, an ashram once endorsed by Gwyneth...
View ArticleHeidi Stevens: Spreading love and humanity to the LGBTQ+ community one...
If you need a little reminder about humanity — its strength in the face of adversity, its unmatched power to heal, its refusal to go into hiding because of oh, say, an election result — how’s this: In...
View ArticlePatrick T. Reardon: 17 questions about hate
If I believe that Donald Trump is bad for the United States and the rest of the world because he expresses so much hate, should I hate him and all the people who voted for him? If I believe that Trump...
View ArticleEditorial: Mayor Johnson’s property tax hike was defeated by a score of 50-0....
On Thursday, Chicago’s City Council nixed Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposal to hike property taxes on households and businesses by $300 million. The 50-0 vote came without debate and served as a...
View ArticleDavid McGrath: Blaming the entire country for Trump’s election not only...
The day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated, I was a freshman at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Westmont. In between classes, an announcement over the school’s loud speakers directed students to the...
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