My sister and I loved comic books when we were kids, although she read the encyclopedia, too. I particularly studied the crime comics.

After spending the better part of a decade fighting the Great Recession, a conflicted village and drama in the development teams, the Vantage high-rise ultimately rose quickly at Lake and Forest and...

Oak Park and its schools talk a good game about race and equity. We make it seem that we are determined to close the discipline and academic gaps between white and black students, between more...

It is June 2017. That is eight months out from the remarkably divisive swimming pool referendum at Oak Park and River Forest High School. The vote on the pool plan put forth by the high school was...

Deno Andrews, one of Oak Park's new village trustees, is expert at social media. Pre-election, we watched as a Facebook page he launched for northeast Oak Parkers took off in a flash. 

Many people were stunned that Donald Trump got elected president last fall. His first six months in office have confirmed that he's a disaster. 

Martin Luther King once famously stated, "If you can't fly, then run; if you can't run, then walk; if you can't walk, then crawl; but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."   

In seeking solutions to Illinois' fiscal crises some have suggested that the secret to general prosperity is allowing wealthy folks to keep more of their money.

In the fall of 1959, when I became a naturalized citizen of the United States, I rejoiced in the promise of freedom in our electoral process. I rejoiced as I remembered an election I witnessed in...