Why Hull House had to disappear
Hull House, the crown jewel of American settlement houses, is gone. The common post-mortem: It relied too much on a state that doesn't pay its bills and its leaders didn't...
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How to have a funless summer
The Little League Baseball season in my neighborhood is beginning and the trend is unmistakable. Kids aren't playing the game like they used to. Registration for the leagues for 8-,...
Before you get that CT scan …
While Congress debates the pros and cons of Obamacare, a silent revolution proceeds apace in American medicine. Actually, it is not totally silent; it is heralded by the low hum...
In search of good manners, please
Scene: The Daley Center. Characters: Four people, two fortyish men and two elderly women, wait for an elevator. Story: The elevator door opens. One of the men pushes right in...
Minnie Minoso for the Hall of Fame
Would the White Sox have won the World Series last October without the clutch late-season pitching of Jose Contreras or the phenomenal relief effort of Orlando Hernandez in the Boston...
Memo to (cough) the boss
A duck migrating through China stops to inspect a chicken that has died of avian flu and contracts the virus. The duck carries the virus to a farm in Hong...
7 lessons from the Schiavo case
Terri Schiavo died Thursday after the most publicly litigated termination-of-treatment case in American history. Any of us could face her fate or that of her relatives. Those of us who...
Another vote
Phil Hersh makes a convincing argument that Warren Spahn was a better pitcher over his career than Sandy Koufax. He concludes by saying Spahn was the best lefty ever. With...
HEALTH RACISM
So editorial writers at the Tribune acknowledge "the harsh reality that the privates (hospitals) just don't seem to want to handle the sort of people that Cook County Hospital treats"...
PUPPET’S GENDER
Rick Kogan's obituary on puppeteer Shari Lewis was well done but for one glaring error. In describing Lamb Chop, Shari's longtime friend and companion, Kogan stated that "its gender was...