Colleen Kujawa

Colleen Kujawa is an editor who has worked with opinion content for the Tribune Editorial Board since 2019. Before that, she was a member of the Tribune metro copy desk for seven years.

Colleen Kujawa: I joined groups to discuss music and graphic novels and got an education I didn’t expect

February 25, 2022 at 7:42 p.m.

Back in the spring, a good friend asked if I wanted to be part of a group that would listen to two albums each month — one of them randomly...

Donald White, 1, sits in the cool Lake Michigan water at Jackson Park Beach in August 1928.

Flashback: When weather turns extreme: A look back in photos at Chicago’s stormy and sticky dog days of summer

August 13, 2021 at 3:34 p.m.

Severe thunderstorms. Tornado touchdowns. Sweltering heat. The feverish weather this past week reminded us that the Chicago area is still in the thick of the dog days of summer. August...

"Ya dumb jerks!" Mary Lou Palermo, center, yells to the Jersey Jolters who caused a three-way spill at a roller derby competition at the Chicago Coliseum on Feb. 14, 1951. The Jersey Jolters beat the Chicago Westerners 22 to 21, but it took them four overtime periods to score the victory in front of 2,703 fans. Palermo, who was from Chicago, started skating roller derby's when she was just 15 in 1944.

Flashback: A battle on skates: A look back in photos at roller derby and its Chicago Coliseum days

March 26, 2021 at 3:07 p.m.

"I love it. It's the most exciting thing a girl can do." These effusive words came from a 22-year-old woman who took a blow to her abdomen one day in...

Monica Kujawa visits her husband, Fred, during his first day in hospice at a nursing home in Indiana. (Family photo)

Op-ed: Still not sure COVID-19 is horrifying? I imagine what it would have been like for my ill parents to die alone.

February 6, 2024 at 10:44 a.m.

My father did not die of COVID-19. Neither did my mother. They passed from this world nine months apart, he from pulmonary fibrosis in 2018 and she from congestive heart...

A boy plays with a toy tractor in Toyland at Carson Pirie Scott and Co. on Nov. 28, 1962.

Flashback: The persevering spirit of the season: A look back in photos of holiday scenes in Chicago

January 23, 2021 at 12:07 a.m.

The holidays, with all their warmth, sparkle, feasting and fellowship — gift shopping headaches and family squabbling notwithstanding — nourish us each year as we brace ourselves for the full-blown...

Members of the Highland Park High School band practice in 1950.

Flashback: A look back in photos as classrooms and fashions change, but the challenges remain the same

January 23, 2021 at 12:06 a.m.

Classrooms change. Fashions change. Courses change. (Does wood shop still exist?) But for each generation, even during this strangest of times, universal truths persist: School is challenging. It's scary. It's...

A person portraying a Fort Dearborn frontiersman fires a Kentucky rifle during the Chicago Park District's Independence Day celebration at the Chicago Historical Society at Clark Street and North Avenue on July 4, 1970.

Flashback: Thoughts about July Fourth from 1873: ‘There is just as good cause for a Declaration of Independence now’

January 23, 2021 at 12:04 a.m.

It's that time of year again when fresh flags sway in the summer breeze and Americans tip their hats to Independence Day with barbecues and parades and night skies lit...

Jane, 2, and her father, Stan Mikita, whirl around the ice prior to a Blackhawks workout on May 3, 1971.

Flashback: ‘Dad is equal to any crisis’: The many faces of fatherhood over the years in the Tribune

April 8, 2021 at 8:22 p.m.

He was known as "The Boss." "Da Mare." Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley pulled the levers of city and Democratic power for over two decades. He was courted. He was...

The Adler Planetarium in a wraithlike outline on April 5, 1957, as fog closes in on the city, forcing motorists to turn on headlights.

Flashback: From the seas to the stars, Shedd and Adler brought wonder to Chicago

January 23, 2021 at 12:03 a.m.

As Chicago has proved, tumult can't keep a good city — and its aspirations — down. In 1930, not even the lingering effects of a stock market crash could stop...

Mrs. Jean Anderson, of St. Louis, and her dog Lucky watch the high waves roll in on Lake Michigan at Division Street on Sept. 5, 1937.

Flashback: Newshounds! Dogs have long graced the Tribune’s pages

January 23, 2021 at 12:02 a.m.

When Scottish novelist Walter Scott lost his beloved bull terrier Camp, he hinted at the depth of his heartbreak in his explanation for turning down a dinner invitation that day:...

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