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Officers stand near crime scene tape after an argument erupted between police and residents at the scene of a police-involved shooting in the Englewood neighborhood on Aug. 9, 2020, in Chicago.

Column: What did we learn from the killing of George Floyd? The police shooting in Englewood shows not very much.

August 12, 2020 at 12:04 p.m.

After months of protests and civil unrest over the police killing of George Floyd, Chicagoans were tested Monday on what we have learned. We failed miserably. In our collective anger...

William C. Goudy Technology Academy in the Uptown neighborhood on July 17, 2020.

Column: For too many Chicago children, school is their only safety net. What will happen to them if CPS doesn’t reopen this fall?

August 5, 2020 at 6:59 p.m.

In the volatile debate over reopening public schools this fall, the voices of the Chicago Teachers Union, the mayor and national policymakers were loud and clear. But as usual, there...

Flanked by police Superintendent David Brown, police officers and FBI agents, U.S. Attorney John Lausch announces charges in a federal gang investigation during a news conference July 29, 2020.

Column: Let’s give credit where credit is due for the feds’ major gang bust in Chicago. But it’s not due to Trump.

August 3, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

Federal law enforcement officials last week took down a drug and illegal firearms operation run by a Chicago street gang whose history dates back more than a half century. That's...

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., speaks during a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on antitrust on Capitol Hill on July 29, 2020.

Column: A member of Congress called out a colleague for saying her name wrong. As a Dahleen, I can relate.

July 30, 2020 at 7:44 a.m.

I am Dahleen. It's pronounced Dahl-lean. But you can call me Darlene, Dah-lean, Doll-lean, Day-lean or, as howtopronounce.com says, Dalen. When you have an unusual name, you have to learn...

President Donald Trump walks into the White House in Washington on July 27, 2020, after traveling to Morrisville, N.C.

Column: When it came to honoring John Lewis, Donald Trump was no hypocrite

July 29, 2020 at 11:34 a.m.

We should thank Donald Trump for skipping Congressman John Lewis' farewell ceremony. While his absence from the memorial in the Capitol rotunda on Monday was glaring, Trump did us all...

Police block the street leading to Mayor Lori Lightfoot's home while protesters rally in support for activist Miracle Boyd and defunding the Chicago Police Department on Thursday, July 23, 2020.

Column: Today’s social justice movement was born out of anger, not hope. There’s nothing peaceful about it.

July 27, 2020 at 5:02 a.m.

Fighting for social justice has never been pretty. People get impatient and angry. Someone always gets knocked down. John Lewis' beating on Bloody Sunday revealed how treacherous it was to...

The Christopher Columbus statue in Chicago's Arrigo Park has been wrapped in a tarp and fenced off, with security cameras added. The statue and plaza was dedicated on Columbus Day in 1966.

Column: Christopher Columbus was a fraud. He doesn’t deserve statues or a holiday in his honor.

July 23, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

If anyone had asked me as a child to define Christopher Columbus, I would have simply said that he discovered America. That's what I was taught in grade school. As...

President Donald Trump talks to reporters July 21, 2020, at the White House.

Column: Donald Trump doesn’t care about Chicago’s violence. Sending the feds is Barack Obama payback.

July 22, 2020 at 11:25 a.m.

Donald Trump has been threatening to take on Chicago's violence problem since he got into office. It looks like he's finally getting his wish. Trump has ordered the deployment of...

From left, Ralph Sims, Evelyn Sims, Ryan Cooper, 5, Rufus Sims, Rameria Sims, 10, and Roshaunda Sims, photographed on Friday. Rufus Sims, 87, is the nephew of Herman and Irving Arthur, who were lynched in Paris, Texas, in 1920. His grandparents and mother fled to Chicago two months later and the picture of their family at Chicago's Polk Street Depot became an iconic symbol of the Great Migration.

Returning South: A family revisits a double lynching that forced them to flee to Chicago 100 years ago

July 13, 2020 at 1:59 p.m.

A century has passed since Scott and Violet Arthur fled Paris, Texas, with their family and headed to Chicago. Far away from the cotton fields of Northeast Texas, generations of...

Flowers are left on a memorial during a vigil for 7-year-old Natalia Wallace.

Column: Let’s make slain 7-year-old Natalia Wallace the newest face of the social justice movement

July 8, 2020 at 4:01 p.m.

It is easy to feel helpless about the killing of 7-year-old Natalia Wallace. A sweet little girl was playing on the sidewalk on the Fourth of July when all of...

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