Every goddamn day: 04/30/25

       Today's column has an unusual backstory. My former colleague at the Sun-Times, Rich Cahan, once a photo editor, now a busy pub...

     Welcome, Archbishop Cupich, to Chicago, a city whose Catholicism is entwined with its entire history. As you may know, we were discov...

        I have a bunch—say 1,500—of books in my office at home, and in an attempt to ease their retrieval, I try to organize them by ...

       You can’t write about Chicago and not be interested in race, and I tend to write about African-American issues more than ...

          I don't comment on professional sports much, because I have no depth of knowledge there.      Besides, there are so many...

     I had driven that road for years. But maybe I had never stopped at that particular light before, and never looked in that particular...

     Jane Byrne was not mighty, like her mentor, Richard J. Daley.      She was not beloved, like her successor, Harold Washington.      N...