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“The Intentions of Thunder,” the new collection of poems by the city’s own Patricia Smith, is a gorgeous, heartbreaking evocation of her life, family and troubled nation. Tuesday it was named as a finalist for the National Book Award.
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Whether it’s fair or not — and it isn’t — it’s up to Reese to change the narrative that surrounds her.
Illini coach Bret Bielema’s record against the Boilermakers is a sad, strange 1-3.
“I wish everybody could see it,” Dansby Swanson said after the Cubs got past the Padres with a 3-1 win. “Full joy. Amazing.”
Called “Inhabit,” the exhibit seeks to emphasize the relationship between the historical modernist house and its beautifully wooded 60-acre location.
As the president sees it, James Comey, Sen. Adam Schiff, D–Calif. and New York Attorney General Letitia James, deserve to suffer because they wronged him.
Kirk’s death was, without question, a tragic loss of a young father and husband. But compassion does not require canonization. To elevate Kirk to sainthood is to rewrite the moral ledger of his public life.
The Cubs haven’t exactly torn the cover off the ball in recent postseason opportunities at Wrigley Field. But Pete Crow-Armstrong, Kyle Tucker, Ian Happ and the rest have one more chance on Thursday.
Before a 3-1 win against the Padres, more than one Cub remarked that the warm weather didn’t really feel like postseason baseball. By the end, the whole place reeked of October.
Bob Kazel, a talented Chicago journalist who never gave up, dies at 62.
In an age of hyperpartisan media and culture war politics, being blacklisted feels dangerously relevant again. But blacklists lose their power when artists, workers and citizens work together.
It’s not enough for the Cubs to grab a wild-card berth, then go over-and-out on their own turf against a foe with a lesser record.
The Bears head into a bye week as a non-disaster. It beats the heck out of the alternative.
Armed Border Patrol agents visit an already well-guarded Chicago River.
To call it a drought would be kind of understating it because that doesn’t get to how it actually feels to be a part of this seasonal absence — waiting until next year every year.
The White House wants the public to crumble into weariness and tune out its shenanigans. But ignoring the problems won’t make them go away.
The state’s Biometric and Information Privacy Act is stalling construction of new data centers, which generate millions of dollars in local taxes and employ union workers.
White-Outs? Black-Outs? Purple-Outs? College football in Week 5 should be an all-"out” great time.
I’m not even sure Trump believes what he said — that taking acetaminophen, or Tylenol, while pregnant has been associated with a “very increased risk of autism.”
As Sen. Ted Cruz, R–Texas, although “it might feel good right now to threaten Jimmy Kimmel, when it is used to silence every conservative in America, we will regret it.”
The high-minded invocations of James Madison and Alexander Hamilton feel a bit off-topic right now as our country spirals down into authoritarianism, hatred and self-inflicted ignorance.