David McGrath: My father knew how to make all of his 8 kids feel special
Long before the internet, my father would pack the Pontiac station wagon for a two-week summer vacation with my mother and their eight children, back the car out of the driveway, make the sign of the...
View ArticleElizabeth Shackelford: The far right makes unnerving gains in EU elections
I was in France during the recent European Union elections and witnessed the shock of many as Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally nearly doubled its support from five years ago. National Rally...
View ArticleCarole Hopson: How did Bessie Coleman, daughter of an enslaved woman, become...
On June 15, 1921, Bessie Coleman, the daughter of a woman who had once been enslaved in Texas, earned a brevet, a pilot’s license, from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, securing her place...
View ArticleAaron Feldman: Let’s fix Western Avenue and make Chicago stronger
The Western Avenue Corridor Study is potentially the most exciting thing to happen to Chicago city planning in decades. It’s bold, it’s big, and it’s exactly the type of ambitious city planning...
View ArticleEditorial: A broadside against the plans for North DuSable Lake Shore Drive,...
It was an extraordinary aldermanic broadside against the Illinois Department of Transportation and its long-in-gestation plans for a redo of the iconic Chicago road now formally known as North...
View ArticleLetters: Family outing on Metra helped me understand why it has a reputation...
Our girls love trains, and so it was with a lot of excitement (and a bit of trepidation) that we decided to jump at the chance to celebrate Metra’s birthday — and ride for free. We left home and...
View ArticleTribune Opinion quotes of the week
In a new weekly feature, the Tribune Opinion team is selecting the best quotes of the week. Check out last week’s quotes here. Rock music festivalgoers will have to trek out to the suburbs this fall....
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Edward Robert McClelland: The Illinois debate that made Abraham Lincoln a...
Editor’s note: The following lightly edited excerpt is from Chicago writer Edward Robert McClelland’s new book, “Chorus of the Union: How Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Set Aside Their Rivalry to...
View ArticleTom Montgomery Fate: What it’s like to lose a father to Alzheimer’s
Each Father’s Day, I’m filled with gratitude — for my three children, who made me a father and who have put up with me all these years. And now, as adults, we still somehow seem to all like each other....
View ArticleClarence Page: Another Father’s Day, another election-year discussion on the...
Father’s Day always reminds me of the late, great futurist Alvin Toffler’s description of parenthood: “The single greatest preserve of the amateur.” Indeed, like countless other parents, I was stunned...
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Letters: If you were being held hostage, wouldn’t you want your government to...
The person you cherish more than anyone on earth has been brutally kidnapped by terrorists. Would you do anything in your power to save the life of your precious loved one who is being held hostage by...
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Laura Washington: My first ride in a self-driving car
They say you never forget your first time. My first ride in a Waymo in San Francisco will be forever memorable. In case you are unfamiliar with Waymo, it is the latest version of a Google self-driving...
View ArticleEditorial: Donald Trump and that ‘horrible’ city to our north
We’re not fancy campaign consultants or anything, but it seems to us less than optimal to be the presumptive Republican Party nominee for president of the United States and then trash the swing-state...
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Joe Grogan: Access to new Alzheimer’s treatments bogged down by Medicare policy
Alzheimer’s is a progressive, fatal disease that boggled scientists for a century. In the past 30 years, $42 billion has been invested in research and development of drugs that could treat it. More...
View ArticleEditorial: A warning to animal abusers in fittingly harsh penalty for company...
Score one for the beagles. You might remember two years ago when a Virginia facility that bred thousands of animals for laboratory research got caught badly mistreating its dogs, under the noses of...
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Editorial: Donald Trump banned bump stocks before. One word from him now, and...
“Now the situation is clear. Congress can act.” Those were the words of Samuel Alito in his concurring opinion on the Supreme Court’s ruling last week invalidating the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,...
View ArticleLetters: Plan for DuSable Lake Shore Drive is misguided
The aldermen who wrote a recent op-ed (“Halt all work on the DuSable Lake Shore Drive project,” June 9) were right about how misguided the plans are for Redefine the Drive. They were reflecting their...
View ArticleJim Wales: Chicago’s teen curfew policy won’t solve the problem it sets out...
Youth curfew is the supposed quick-fix solution to youth crime. The harbinger for this quick-fix solution came first when the city, through the Chicago Park District, announced that this summer,...
View ArticleVincenzo Mario Santoro: What is going on with the Chicago Cubs?
With their series loss against the Cardinals this past Sunday, the Cubs have now lost eight of their past nine series and fallen to last place in the National League Central Division. How? The team...
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Daniel DePetris: What was the point of last weekend’s Ukraine peace summit?
Last weekend, the Bürgenstock Resort in the Swiss city of Obbürgen was a hive of diplomatic activity. The United States, Britain, France, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Kenya and dozens of other countries sent...
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