This week, powers that be in Chicago will demolish a little work by Mies van der Rohe. A small part of his extraordinarily important campus for the Illinois Institute of Technology will bite the dust.
I read all the stories this week about the late Studs Terkel and his FBI file. To my dismay, they pretended to discover the ironic revelation that he applied to work for the FBI in the early 1930s.
I majored in economics -- a field that entails heaps of calculus -- but the state thinks I'm not qualified to teach math. This bizarre situation is a result of the Board of Ed's certification requirements.
The water rich communities of the Great Lakes region do not understand the nature and value of their most precious resource.
I'm less scared of the possibility of an armed Islamic radical coming into my life than I am about the everyday bigots.
Sad to say I Space's tenure as UIC's gallery outpost is over, a result of cost-cutting. Logic indicates they'll be back. I hope it's soon.
The Graduate Employees' Organization at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has successfully ended a two-day strike against the university administration.
In this week of Harold Washington's death, 22 years ago, I can't help but think of Harold and Michael -- together. In this time of thanksgiving, what can we learn from two lives cut too short?
The question to Illinois citizens and their elected officials is this: Are you sick and tired of the morass that has blanketed this formerly proud state on account of leaders who have continually failed and flouted the public trust?
A rather crappy week in Chicago: Da Bears suck, suicide strikes Mayor Daley's inner circle and a Steelers fan claims a Bears fan made him blind.
Beyond histrionics about a wave of jihad descending upon Chicago, the truth of the matter is far closer to the desire of Republicans to keep the extralegal limbo at Guantanamo going full steam.
We can only hope that those who knew Michael Scott will continue his quest to educate, protect and uplift the invisible ones who live among us.
CPS CEO Ron Huberman knows there is very little racial or economic diversity in our public schools. There is also very little Huberman and his team can do about that.
