Op-ed: Give schoolchildren an A+ in grit
In a school year quite unlike any other, there is one skill that the children of the world most certainly have leveled up on substantially: grit. Grit is a word...
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The Trial of the Chicago 7: The real story behind the Netflix movie
With Aaron Sorkin's "The Trial of the Chicago 7" streaming on Netflix, here's a quick synopsis of how the trial truly went down, with archival photos from the case and...
The Chicago Seven trial and the 1968 Democratic National Convention
Everybody knew it would be interesting, the trial of eight people charged with conspiring to incite the riots that erupted during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. How could...
BLOOM JOINS LONG, SAD LIST
Witty, acerbic and ever critical, Larry Bloom for 16 years stood as the self-appointed conscience of the Chicago City Council, the leader of a small platoon of independent aldermen who...
COMED CLOSING ZION NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
Commonwealth Edison announced Thursday that it will permanently close its 25-year-old Zion nuclear plant, throwing hundreds of utility employees out of work and inflicting a heavy economic blow to the...
NOVEMBER 25, 1987
By the final months of 1987, Mayor Harold Washington was finally having things his own way. Elected to a second term earlier in the year in a campaign devoid of...
APRIL 12, 1983
Other black politicians had run for the office of Chicago mayor before. In fact, even Harold Washington had. Most of those past campaigns had been quixotic, symbolic, and, in the...
OCTOBER 5, 1979
The man previously known as Cardinal Karol Wojtyla had been in Chicago before, most recently in 1976, when he had visited a Northwest Side church as a little-known Polish cardinal....
DECEMBER 20, 1976
A jovial, confident, seemingly healthy Mayor Richard J. Daley started his day on this frigid Monday by attending a pre-Christmas breakfast with his loyal department heads. By most accounts, the...
SEPTEMBER 24, 1969
Everybody knew it would be interesting, the trial of eight people charged with conspiring to incite the riots that erupted during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. How could...