Patrick T. Reardon – Page 26

One shattering event, two families

January 30, 2019 at 11:52 a.m.

Zakaria Maaitah's 6-year-old son, Mohammed, could not understand what he had seen on television. "Were two pilots racing?" the boy asked as he sat with his father in the living...

Flag sales soar as Americans channel rage into patriotism

January 30, 2019 at 11:54 a.m.

Frustrated Americans, angry at the massive carnage and destruction from terrorist attacks by a shadowy enemy, came together Wednesday, channeling their emotions into a burst of patriotism and an outpouring...

Flag sales soar as Americans channel rage into patriotism

August 20, 2021 at 9:30 a.m.

Frustrated Americans, angry at the massive carnage and destruction from terrorist attacks by a shadowy enemy, came together Wednesday, channeling their emotions into a burst of patriotism and an outpouring...

Feeling of invincibility suddenly shattered

January 30, 2019 at 11:55 a.m.

On Tuesday, America the invincible became America the vulnerable. Skyscrapers fell in New York. Smoke billowed from the Pentagon. The Secret Service evacuated the White House. And an America that,...

Feeling of invincibility suddenly shattered

January 30, 2019 at 11:56 a.m.

On Tuesday, America the invincible became America the vulnerable. Skyscrapers fell in New York. Smoke billowed from the Pentagon. The Secret Service evacuated the White House. And an America that,...

Anneliese Scherfen, 26, of Chicago, cries as she talks to her mother in New York via cell phone while standing on Michigan Avenue Tuesday morning. Scherfen said that although her relatives in New York were all safe, she was worried about some friends who work on Wall Street,which is near the site of the World Trade Center towers in the city's Financial District.

For U.S., a horrible awakening

August 21, 2019 at 4:52 p.m.

Fear gripped the heart and shattered the nerves of America on Tuesday as an anxious nation reacted with disbelief and horror to the carnage from terrorist attacks in New York...

For U.S., a horrible awakening

August 22, 2019 at 5:13 a.m.

Fear gripped the heart and shattered the nerves of America on Tuesday as an anxious nation reacted with disbelief and horror to the carnage from terrorist attacks in New York...

‘Mockingbird’ sure to spark tough talk on race and alienation

January 30, 2019 at 11:57 a.m.

Claudia Durst Johnson has a prediction for Chicago: Expect some controversy. Johnson is the foremost academic expert on Harper Lee and Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," the 41-year-old novel that...

Book club starting up, and whole city’s invited

January 30, 2019 at 11:57 a.m.

The City of Chicago, bolstered by a mayor who's an avid reader but known more for grammatical bloopers than bon mots, hopes to turn its citizenry into one giant book...

The Guild Complex: `Taking time to see things 360 degrees’

August 20, 2021 at 9:46 a.m.

The night was thickly humid, and the Chopin Theater wasn't air-conditioned. But no one seemed to mind as Nikki Giovanni made her joyful way through "Ego-tripping," a sort of poetic...

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