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Trump holds MAGA rally to boost Bost. Trump didn't disappoint his favored right-wing candidate  Mike Bost , R-Murphysboro, who is c...

We are the people,” Gearah Goldstein said as she opened Sunday’s program in Chicago.  “As we stand here together, we must hold love and li...

Dr. Morita This may surprise you. I know it will surprise many of the mentally-ill former patients I see wandering our neighborhood ...

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." -- Emma Lazarus Eve Ewing Language is everything...

"Democracy needs to be reborn in each generation, and education is its midwife." --  John Dewey The great American educator an...

 It's Christmas in October for Rahm's toadie, Ald. Moore (L)  Here's a quiz question for my urban policy students. How much ...

DT has this thing for Chicago. Maybe it's because we ran his ass out of town during the 2016 campaign and he's never been back s...

People celebrate the Office Van Dyke guilty verdict at 71st Street and Jeffery Boulevard on Oct. 5, 2018. (Tribune) Former Yale Law S...

Standing on the White House lawn, President Trump was talking about the Kavanaugh confirmation fight when he said, quote , "it'...

Van Dyke & Kavanaugh play the role of victims.  The prosecutor asked Van Dyke, "Is it your testimony that Laquan never turne...

“The new contracts ensure that hotel workers will keep their health care if they’re laid off in the wintertime,” UNITE HERE Local 1, the u...

Citywide, 45 percent of black students attend Level 1 or 1-plus schools, while 91 percent of white students attend the top rated schools....

Cal State Northridge students rally to protect cross-cultural courses. Kathryn Sorrells, CS-N communication studies professor  “Given ...

Bill Daley, the man from JPMorgan. They used to call it "plantation politics." The Tribune's Clarence Page  has  traced th...

James Baldwin Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want t...

Students in my Urban School Policy class have been unpacking the word, urban. I had them make a list of descriptors for "urban schoo...

Employees at a Pacific Northwest burger chain triggered a new policy after employees wore buttons that read “Abolish ICE” and “No one is ...

This morning on Hitting Left, Ja'mal Green.  This morning from IL Playbook A pathway opens up for Erika Wozniak.. . If you thou...

Hey little emperor come down from you throne And let another emperor climb on -- Steve Earle After a brief celebration and a lis...

Stevie Wonder closes out Aretha's funeral.  Rev. William Barber Aretha's singing challenged the dangling discords of hate and ...