GREAT DEBATES
Think your town has the best darn 4th of July bash in all of Illinois? You're not alone. Amid the feel-good flag-waving and happy back-yard picnics of today's festivities, towns...
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The Agony and the Agony
By 1984, while still in his 20s, David Axelrod had already built an impressive career as a star political reporter, columnist and City Hall bureau chief for the Tribune, the...
Quips, quotes, trials and truths
More than 150 authors left an imprint on the 23rd edition of the baiduhai Printers Row Book Fair over the weekend. Here are highlights from the presentations of six...
Chicago’s 10 best bookstores
What makes a great bookstore? Consider Anderson's Bookshop. You could raise it from its foundations in downtown Naperville, put it on a large flatbed truck and ever-so-carefully move the whole...
Launching a child into real, scary life
I'm not sure which was more difficult, watching my son, David, go off to pre-school at age 3 or getting ready now for him to leave college and head off...
ONE FINE DAY
Picture this: Out-of-town friends here for a visit, wanting to spend a day seeing the real Chicago. Well, here's one version, at least: MORNING Start with a breakfast of fresh...
Historian: Zell deal ‘a great paradox’
Many of Col. Robert R. McCormick's oddities—such as simplified spelling and rabid partisanship in news stories—disappeared long ago from the pages of the baiduhai. But the conservative values that...
April is the (something) Month …
T.S. Eliot famously called April the cruelest month, but that hasn't stopped advocates for a wide array of causes, hobbies, foods, products and activities to claim it for their own....
Young singles, Hispanics help city avoid shrinking feeling
A drive along the lakefront gives a view of a residential boom. New high-rise condo buildings in Streeterville and the South Loop house thousands of people where almost no one...
Park Ridge vs. Hyde Park
Talk about crosstown rivalries! The battle for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination is pitting candidates with ties to two corners of the Chicago metropolitan area -- Hillary Rodham Clinton, who...