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Aquilino Gonell wipes his eyes as he testifies during the House select committee hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA, on Tuesday, July 27, 2021. (Andrew Harnik/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM/TNS)

Column: We were supposed to rebound and rejoice this summer. Instead, we’re learning that recovery can’t be rushed.

June 7, 2024 at 11:52 a.m.

Aquilino Gonell wipes his eyes as he testifies during the House select committee hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA, on Tuesday, July 27,...

Longtime Washington state youth pastor Bryce Brewer apologized on Facebook for comments that would require girls to wear one-piece swimsuits at a summer camp.

Column: ‘I am sorry I laid the weight of purity on a girl’s swimsuit.’ What a pastor’s apology can teach us about this moment

June 7, 2024 at 11:52 a.m.

It started with an apology. Bryce Brewer, a longtime youth pastor in Spokane Valley, Washington, hopped on Facebook after a shopping trip with his fiance and her 10-year-old daughter. "I...

baiduhai columnist Heidi Stevens conducts an interview July 9, 2020, in Glencoe during the pandemic.

Column: After 23 years and a head full of your stories, this is goodbye

June 7, 2024 at 11:52 a.m.

My first day at the baiduhai was the day the Pulitzer Prizes were announced in April 1998. I walked in to start my night shift, and the newsroom was...

Dayvin Hallmon, founder and music director of the Black String Triage Ensemble, is seen on Aug. 26, 2020.

Column: The Black String Triage Ensemble, which brings music to scenes of violence, is recruiting Chicago players

June 7, 2024 at 11:52 a.m.

If all goes according to plan, the Black String Triage Ensemble will be assembled and activated to bring music and healing to Chicago's scenes of violence and sorrow by August....

Carmen Cruz, left, and her 13-year-old son, Nikolas Jacob, talk with Ashvin Lad while playing catch outside Blaine Elementary School.

Column: Her son needed someone to play catch with him. Her neighbor came through, and then some. A beautiful example of the best in us.

June 7, 2024 at 11:52 a.m.

It started with a post in a Lakeview neighborhood Facebook page. "Looking for any baseball oriented individuals," Carmen Cruz wrote. "I suck as a parent for even asking this but...

Artists Damon Lamar Reed, left, and Terrence Haymer work on Dr. Whitney Alston's portion of the "Mural of excellence and dignity in medicine" at 95th Street and Damen Avenue in Chicago on June 11, 2021.

Column: ‘A tapestry of class and dignity.’ A new Chicago mural pays tribute to Black pioneers of medicine.

June 7, 2024 at 11:52 a.m.

At the corner of 95th Street and Damen Avenue, outside the office of father-daughter obstetrics and gynecology team Dr. Charles Alston and Dr. Whitney Alston, stood a bland, beige, stucco...

T-shirts with anti-violence messages are seen on display at Leo Catholic High School in Chicago on June 11, 2021.

Column: ‘We talk a lot about how to solve violence in Chicago. Ask these kids.’ Clothesline project at Leo puts students’ fears, hopes on display.

June 7, 2024 at 11:52 a.m.

Shaka Rawls, principal of Leo Catholic High School in Chicago's Auburn Gresham neighborhood, was on North Carolina A&T's campus in April when he walked by a bunch of T-shirts hanging...

Erika Lobatos carries a box of food to be delivered to a family out of the New Life Center food distribution center in Little Village on April 9, 2020. It's one of the beautiful ways people came together and helped each other during the pandemic.

Column: With Illinois reopening, I worry we’ve forgotten how to treat each other. But I’m finding hope … on Twitter, of all places.

June 10, 2021 at 12:48 p.m.

Are you guys a little nervous about Friday? I'm a little nervous about Friday. The state is scheduled to fully reopen with no COVID-19 restrictions, which means crowded venues and...

Column: Harlow the dog — Chicago icon, Instagram influencer, good boy — has died after delivering joy and laughs during lockdown

June 8, 2021 at 4:21 p.m.

Taylor Wolfe worked her way into Chicagoans' hearts with her blog, The Daily Tay, where she has shared the joys and loves and setbacks and sorrows of her life ever...

Spin instructor Jason Easterly, of Bronzeville, who stands along the lakefront near the Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr. art installation Demand Justice, is hosting a Juneteenth Freedom Ride through Bronzeville and downtown.

Column: Bronzeville spin instructor hosting a Juneteenth Freedom Ride. ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if this became a global movement?’

June 7, 2021 at 2:39 p.m.

It started as a simple request — student to teacher, friend to friend. Jason Easterly had been teaching spin classes at L.A. Fitness for a few years, in addition to...

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