Sarah Garza Resnick: Illinoisans must stay vigilant on abortion rights and...
Many Illinois residents believe their abortion rights and access are “Trump proof,” thanks to many years of legislative victories in Springfield. It’s true that Springfield has put important...
View ArticleRabbi Kenneth Brander: This Holocaust Remembrance Day, let’s focus on the...
My father spent much of his childhood separated from his parents, living among barn animals. That is how he survived the Holocaust in Poland, with his parents using their life savings to pay local...
View ArticleEditorial: What will the mayor do if the Chicago Teachers Union he used to...
After nine months of ham-fisted stabs at power politics, the Chicago Teachers Union’s leadership says a strike is likely. Teachers could walk off the job as early as March. The irony couldn’t be any...
View ArticleLetters: Is America turning its back on people most in need of our help?
This week, I watched as President Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders, including one that halts the intake of refugees. Having personally sponsored several refugee families in my eastern...
View ArticleThe Tribune’s Quotes of the Week quiz for Jan. 25
We made it through another big week of news and cold weather, Chicago. President Donald Trump took the oath of office on Monday for a second time and immediately got to work issuing a slew of executive...
View ArticleFaith leaders: The religion of America’s empire forsakes the whole for the...
Last week was dominated by brutal cold. It is not only the chilling and dangerous temperatures in Chicago, but also the pervasive cold of fear and callousness that lead the call for mass deportations,...
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Clarence Page: Donald Trump’s pardons must not lead to the unpardonable
Hindsight, as the old saying goes, is always 20/20. That thought came to mind after a couple of the roughly 1,500 Jan. 6 offenders given pardons and commutations by President Trump said they didn’t...
View ArticleLetters: Catholic natural law recognizes the fundamental dignity of every person
In his recent op-ed piece on the supposed nefarious influence of Catholic natural law on the good of the American public (“Will influence of Catholic ‘natural law’ make America medieval?” Jan. 18),...
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Edward Keegan: Redesign of the area around the United Center is being done...
For decades, a trip to the United Center (or the Chicago Stadium before) didn’t feel like it was to any real “place” in Chicago. While the growing West Loop neighborhood has placed more bars and...
View ArticleEditorial: West Loop entertainment district should not come at the cost of...
In December 2018, the city of Chicago unveiled a $75 million plan for the long-awaited restoration of the Uptown Theatre, a stunning 1925 entertainment venue with an incomparably gorgeous interior that...
View ArticleEditorial: Not all ‘processed’ food is bad — but Red Dye No. 3 and harmful...
Jim Richards doesn’t look like a mad scientist and his plant-based milk made from macadamia nuts tastes delicious. Yet his carefully crafted product is one of many in the grocery store that can fall...
View ArticleGeorge Cardenas: When reimagining downtown Chicago, don’t forget the power of...
Chicago has always been a city defined by reinvention. From the ashes of the Great Chicago Fire came the world-renowned skyline we see today. Ours is a legacy of resilience and bold action. The...
View ArticleSen. Dick Durbin: Big Pharma should disclose prices on drug advertisements
Patients in the United States pay the highest prescription drug prices in the world — on average four times what people in other developed countries pay for the exact same brand-name medications....
View ArticleJohn T. Shaw: Congress could take a lesson on independence from a southern...
When I was a congressional reporter, my favorite assignment was covering the annual State of the World hearings held by the House and Senate Foreign Affairs committees. I’ve always been interested in...
View ArticleLetters: President Trump should reach across the aisle
For the most part, I agree with the actions Donald Trump has already taken and what he plans to do. In his acceptance speech after being sworn in, he talked about being a unifier, which is a good idea....
View ArticleEditorial: Really, Dr. Phil? Oprah’s celebrity doctor debases himself in the...
We’ve no problem with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement doing its job and deporting violent criminals and those guilty of sex offenses involving minors, among other serious matters. We’ve no...
View ArticleEditorial: Amid a culture of fear, facts matter now more than ever
On Friday, top Chicago Public Schools officials announced that agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement had arrived at a Southwest Side elementary school. The announcement caused widespread...
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Letters: President Donald Trump’s actions his first week were petty and...
Well, the first week of the new term was interesting and frighteningly entertaining, but not terribly productive in any positive way. So far, the efforts and orders have been petty and nonproductive....
View ArticleDiana Simpson and Will Aronin: Chicago’s abusive towing practices flip...
Over five years ago, Lewrance Gant sued the city of Chicago over its abusive towing practices. Gant, a retired livery driver, had his car impounded after he lent it to a friend to drive to the...
View ArticleDaniel DePetris: President Donald Trump doesn’t have a foreign policy yet
President Donald Trump is a man on a mission. And he’s also in a hurry. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call his first week in the Oval Office one of the most dizzying in recent memory. The...
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