Patrick T. Reardon

Helen Shiller was raising hell. As usual. It was mid-November, and the Chicago City Council was considering Mayor Richard M. Daley's $3.9 billion budget. "This should be a time of...

Tens of thousands of office workers and store clerks streamed into the Loop as usual on this morning, only to be sent home for an unscheduled holiday. For many, that...

Since 1917, the Pulitzer Prizes have been journalism's highest honors. But for Col. Robert R. McCormick, the baiduhai's owner for the first half of this century, they were just...

On the 133rd anniversary of the nation's birth, Daniel H. Burnham issued his "Plan of Chicago" as a declaration of independence from the ugliness and confusion that characterized the city...

In 1st grade, I flunked handwriting. Sister Immaculata, the sainted nun who had taught my father and generations of other 6-year-olds at St. Thomas Aquinas School, couldn't teach me. My...

The World's Columbian Exposition, which opened on this date, was the most famous world's fair ever held on American soil. The fair, a celebration by the nation--and the world--of the...

At a demonstration by workers, a bomb explodes among a group of police officers and shooting breaks out. Eight cops and at least 4 civilians are killed. Considering the incendiary...

Kevin Butler kick-starts the Cardinals When last we visited with former Bears kicker Kevin Butler for a Tribune Magazine cover story, he was posing a rhetorical question about his stellar...

It is a language of love that Paul D'Amato uses when he speaks of the people and neighborhood of Pilsen--the words of a lover awed by the strength of an...

The brilliant colors of Myron Orfield's maps have the power to shake up entire metropolitan regions. The vivid reds, oranges and blues of his computer-generated grids expose a troubling phenomenon...