Julia Lieblich

More than 1,200 people waited several hours in line at the Gage Park Field house at 55th and Western avenues for their polio shot on March 11, 1957.

Commentary: Tempted not to vaccinate? Listen to the survivors of preventable, deadly diseases

August 21, 2020 at 9:51 p.m.

My mother came down with polio before Jonas Salk's vaccine was introduced in 1954. My Guatemalan friend, Alba Hernandez, developed the paralyzing disease 23 years after the vaccine arrived in...

Rabbi Capers Funnye, of Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation of Chicago, in his synagogue on July 9, 2015.

Commentary: Rabbi Capers Funnye, other Black Hebrew Israelites wrongly connected to Jersey City shooters

December 13, 2019 at 10:10 p.m.

Chicago Rabbi Capers Funnye had two reactions when some news outlets, including The New York Times, reported Wednesday that a man and a woman who killed six people at a...

Dominga Vicente shows a photo of her niece, 19-year-old Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzalez, who was allegedly killed by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent in Texas.

Killed on the border: Where is the justice for Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzalez?

May 31, 2019 at 9:19 p.m.

I have a question for the next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security: Whatever happened to the case of Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzalez, the 19- or 20-year-old Guatemalan Maya...

`I’m getting tired of being part of history’

August 21, 2021 at 11:18 a.m.

George Kokines won't be lining up to see Oliver Stone's film "World Trade Center" on the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11. He already saw the fear on the firefighters' faces...

Pope John Paul II

August 22, 2021 at 10:10 p.m.

As pope, John Paul II spent only 37 hours in Chicago. But those 37 feverishly busy hours--speeding through cheering crowds, presiding over outsized liturgies, issuing stern edicts, joking with adoring...

Religious leaders at front of war protest

August 20, 2021 at 8:22 a.m.

Mainstream religious leaders who largely remained silent during the military campaign in Afghanistan are protesting a pre-emptive strike in Iraq with an organized outcry not witnessed in the United States...

Muslims join Christians in common goal

March 30, 2019 at 3:43 a.m.

Muslims who have endured taunts and threats since Sept. 11, 2001, joined firefighters, veterans and their neighbors around the American flag in Bridgeview Wednesday morning to remember the victims of...

Muslims join Christians in common goal

August 20, 2021 at 8:40 a.m.

Faiths reunite to grieve, heal

March 30, 2019 at 11:40 a.m.

Muslims, Christians and Jews gathered Tuesday night in a Villa Park mosque to mourn the loss of life on Sept. 11, 2001, and to pray for peace and compassion. "We...

Lawsuit targets Sept. 11 ceremony

August 20, 2021 at 8:34 a.m.

A father and daughter filed suit Monday to block the City of Chicago from using a prayer as a centerpiece of a Daley Center ceremony Wednesday commemorating the one-year anniversary...

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