Every goddamn day: 04/30/25

.    I pause whenever the subject of the Catholic Church comes up and ask myself the old World War II question: "Is this trip necessa...

     This started as a story about Chicago the day Kennedy was killed, but the more I found out about the UPI office here, the more th...

'Virgil reading "The Aeneid" to Augustus, Octavia and Livia," by Jean Baptiste Joseph Wicar (Art Institute of Chicago)...

    A newspaper is a dialogue, a chorus of voices conveying and commenting upon the news of the day.      So I am not correcting  a T...

     As a rule, people are hot to complain, particularly now, when the Internet allows the gripers and moaners to find each other and fo...

     I'll probably never know who left this book on the river wall along Wacker Drive, just where it stops going west and begins tur...

     At lunch Monday, an older lady was going on about a young man of her acquaintance, and in the middle of her catalogue of his woes—smoki...