Eric Zorn

Sept. 11, 2020: Students from School District 25 complete their e-learning in the multipurpose room in South Middle School in Arlington Heights. The students are enrolled in a Park District program called Children at Play Plus. The program is an all-day child care program housed at the school where they are cared for and supervised by Park District staff.

Column: Those who believed COVID-19 would be ‘almost gone’ by April are the real fools

March 30, 2021 at 10:39 p.m.

"I expect Covid will be mostly gone by April, allowing Americans to resume normal life," wrote Dr. Marty Markary in a Feb. 19 Wall Street Journal op-ed. Markary, a widely...

More fun than Penultimate Frisbee, the Tweet of the Week poll

April 2, 2021 at 5:04 p.m.

Instructions: Click the box next to each tweet that amuses you -- no limit to the number of choices. Voting closes Friday at noon Chicago time. Winner is published in...

Column: The weapon of choice for mass murder merely becomes more popular and politically invincible after each mass murder.

March 27, 2021 at 11:00 p.m.

A tweet Monday with now roughly 240,000 "likes" and more than 75,000 retweets listed 12 mass shootings from the past decade, including Monday's deadly rampage at a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket....

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Column: Those who believed COVID-19 would be ‘almost gone’ by April are the real fools

More fun than Penultimate Frisbee, the Tweet of the Week poll

Column: The weapon of choice for mass murder merely becomes more popular and politically invincible after each mass murder.

Column: Oh man! Chicago’s already 50 years late in dumping ‘alderman’ and making City Council titles gender neutral.

Column: As we process Boulder and Atlanta, remember the Pulse nightclub massacre. Sometimes we get it wrong.

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Column: Answers might be coming at last in the still-controversial 1982 murder case that changed Illinois history

Column: Focus on anti-Asian hate crimes brings renewed attention to Todd Ricketts use of an anti-Asian expression

Column: Give customers and patients a choice to be served by vaccinated workers

Column: The sad story of serial stowaway Marilyn Hartman just keeps getting sadder