Bob Greene

We claim to want to change the world, but before we attempt anything quite that grandiose, we ought to work on changing how we treat each other. Two scenes from...

The letter -- from the wife of a Chicago police officer -- asked me a question: "No news is good news?" The officer's wife, Grace McGuire, wrote that back on...

There are no second acts in American life. At least that is what the oft-quoted, oft-paraphrased literary admonition proclaims. The problem, though, is that the admonition is wrong. There are...

`Four tickets, please." My friend Jack Roth -- all of 15 years old, using the deepest voice he could manage -- uttered those words at the box office of the...

The drunken coward who bludgeoned 12-year-old Liliana Ciprianu to death by repeatedly smashing the wooden stock of a rifle into her head has been sentenced to 100 years in prison....

Don't be fooled by all the talk about the ramifications of the dramatic new plans for O'Hare International Airport. The rebuilt airport will ease the chronic flight delays at O'Hare,...

Continuing with our list of summer songs -- which, as we explained in Monday's column, is not the same thing as songs that merely became popular in summer . ....

A surprisingly large number of you got in touch to say you enjoyed the recent columns about summer songs -- songs that were hits during the car-radio-and-jukebox era, songs that...

All you did last week is change someone's life. Probably forever. Your response to the story about Greg Molinari is as good an example as I can think of --...

Art Petacque died this month at the age of 76, and I don't want to let any more time pass without mentioning Hitler's dog. Art was the storied, seen-everything, heard-everything...