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Rich guys pay to plaster names over stuff all the time; maybe one will free us of a name we see too much already.
With crashes involving cyclists on the rise and climate change leaving little choice but to find alternatives to fossil-burning cars, it’s time City Hall made upgrading cycling infrastructure a priority.
It’s a dangerous moment for a society when the very places that should be sources of ideas and community are held hostage by nameless individuals.
Chicago’s sordid history has taken away our boys’ and girls’ abilities to be kids. It has robbed our city of its potential.
“I know I’m not great,” Ross told the Sun-Times. “But I want to be great.”
Former President Donald Trump’s big mouth has undoubtedly helped him politically. But it’s inarguably hurt everyone around him, including the dozens of other defendants in his cases and convicted Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol.
Some historic buildings embody intangible experiences that are as important as the buildings themselves, writes Tim Samuelson, the city’s cultural historian emeritus.
A court decision against a Louisiana man who made a COVID joke illustrates the continuing influence of a misbegotten, century-old analogy that is frequently used as an excuse to punish or censor constitutionally protected speech.
The bad baseball and the shootings in the ballpark might have brought people to their breaking point.
There is a shake-up in leadership at the Chicago-based National Association of Realtors, and we’d say it’s way overdue.
No one needs to physically rob a bank at gunpoint anymore when a person can impersonate a fraud prevention specialist and sweet talk bank customers into handing over their life savings.
A Texan complains about immigrants doing what his whole county does.
Opinion writer Mona Charen is absolutely right about getting rid of audiences that encourage candidates to cater to the lowest common denominator.
Politicians won’t act until they are forced to.
Nationally, the total average daily rate for breakfast participation in schools went up by 11.2% in 2022 compared with 2021. In Illinois, it went down by 6.6%, according to the Food Research and Action Center.
There are so many things wrong here, it’s hard to know where to start. If the players and fans weren’t warned of a possible threat just to keep business moving, that’s unconscionable.
Six days before the Wildcats’ opener at Rutgers, Braun explained — poorly — that he was taking the completely unusual step of barring players from interviews during a game week.
People in frontline communities flooded by more intense storms, choked by industrial pollution and scorched by wildfires always come out on the short end.
Digging up support with a $10 million workforce development plan is a vile and deliberately divisive tactic, a reader writes.
School administrators hopefully will find funding to keep such programs alive after federal pandemic funding runs out, a reader writes.
Illinois and Chicago should kick up their efforts to protect and improve the state’s environment.
The “club” started with a couple of young professionals jumping into the lake at Montrose Harbor to start off their busy weekends. Hundreds, then thousands, of young folks started joining them. Then the Park District weighed in.
The anti-abortion movement should shift its focus from the law to helping women who only consider abortion because they’re desperate and really would choose life for their babies if they had some help.
The Sox administration acted responsibly. The problem is not with those in charge at Sox Park. The problem is with the ease of access to not only ordinary guns but automatic weapons that send bullets out like water from a garden hose.
Reading about West Virginia University’s plan to solve a budgetary shortfall by eliminating the study of foreign languages, it occurred to me the entire purpose of a college education has been turned inside out since my undergraduate days.
Historic markers in a southwest suburb remind us of the role scientists at the University of Chicago played in building the atomic bomb and how that legacy affects us all.
Wheeler Parker, minister of a suburban Argo church, talks about Emmett Till’s 1955 lynching and brutal murder by white supremacists in Mississippi — and what triggered it.
Settling immigrants is: A.) an enormous strain; B.) a smart investment in Chicago’s future; or C.) both.
In some grades at certain schools, an analysis by the Illinois Policy Institute found that not a single student meets grade-level standards. The board also needs to take a hard look at finances and building utilization.
Nobody does weird like the Chicago White Sox.
Steroids or not, the home run chase of 25 years ago was an exciting season. ‘Gould’s Law’ shows it was also a statistical aberration.
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