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Friday, March 27, 2026

Americans, once 'suffocated by smog, poisoned by water,' face return to bad old days

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Protesting pollution on LaSalle Street, 1970.      In 1889, the American correspondent for the Allahabad Pioneer arrived on the shores of La...
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Thursday, March 26, 2026

Sparrows

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          If you're not careful, trying to solve one problem, you end up creating a worse problem.      House sparrows, such as these bl...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Donald Trump mounts a Chicago hobbyhorse — Christopher Columbus

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Columbus monument, Barcelona, Spain.      Certain issues just seem to belong to Chicago. Dibs, for instance. That peculiar tradition of tryi...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Flashback 2012: If they go to school, kids will know who Pulaski was

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      There are so many tragedies manifesting themselves right now — a deepening war, a shuddering economy, a corrupt and cruel American gov...
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Monday, March 23, 2026

Iran War won't be so absentee

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       What was America's longest war?      Not the Civil War — that was the bloodiest, 620,000 dead, with Americans falling on both sid...
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Sunday, March 22, 2026

Company man

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Calbert Wright      When Calbert Wright began work at the Ford Motor Company's Chicago Stamping Plant in Chicago Heights in 1963, the fa...
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Saturday, March 21, 2026

Work in progress: Jack Clark on the No. 93 bus

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     Not living in the city, I probably like buses more than Chicago residents do — familiar enough to grab one when convenient; not familia...
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