Every goddamn day: 04/20/26

          In Saturday's 10th anniversary post, I said this would run as a column Wednesday. But upon a second read, I decided it might b...

     This 4th of July won’t be the same for Margaret and Chuck Hagopian, longtime residents of Norwood Park.      “We lost our cat Ranger, t...

     Ross Cosmetics was closed for Independence Day on July 4, 2022.      But, as any business owner knows, being closed to the public doesn...

  The Thompson Center and City Hall, July 1, 2013     Friday morning was more eventful than is usual. But things quieted down about 5:30 a.m...

     The United States Supreme Court is wrong in its ruling Thursday that affirmative action is unconstitutional. The easiest way to unders...

        Chicago had the worst air quality  in the world  on Tuesday. The sky was smokey grey. Wednesday didn't seem much better. I was d...

     I try not to use fancy words. OK, stop laughing; it’s true. I did it just now — my fingers itched to type “recondite words” — meaning “...