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Opinion
Black and Brown Lives Matter: The PG (playground) version
This is what it looks like on an Oak Park playground when Black and Brown lives don't matter.
What to Black folk was this Fourth of July?
This being 2020, Fourth of July just didn't feel like the Fourth of July.
Liking Ike even more these days
My dad was a lifelong Democrat. As a child of the Great Depression, he was very loyal to the party of FDR.
Make River Forest's plan stronger
In the protest march on June 14, River Forest Village President Cathy Adduci marched together with our village trustees as many River Foresters lined Washington Boulevard.
Journal's editorials
Fenwick's earned pain
It is the least surprising news we've reported recently. Fenwick High School has a serious problem with racism.
The moment is passing
In River Forest the police chief and his staff are live-streaming sessions addressing policing issues. One down. More to come.
Supt. Kelley's next step
We'll know in the coming weeks if Carol Kelley, currently superintendent of Oak Park's District 97 public elementary schools, will be named to the same role in Madison, Wisconsin. We reported last...
Fenwick's racial reckoning
To its credit, Fenwick High School has shattered the façade of racial well being at the college prep school on Washington Boulevard. With our divided nation taking stock of just how deep are...
Letters to the editor
Columns / One views
Dr. King's words resonate on July 4
Saturday is set aside as a national holiday to celebrate and appreciate the freedom we enjoy as Americans, yet the Black Lives Matter protests following George Floyd's murder are trying to tell us...
We'll always have Paris (in our future)
We had planned to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary in Paris. It would have been a blast but the Great Recession forced us to scale back our plans.
America's turmoil and potential
On the evening of May 30, I spent several hours watching TV coverage of the burning of Chicago.
The downside of being imaginative
My family moved to Oak Park when I was very young.
Ken Trainor
We can do better than 'better'
The other day, I came across a column I wrote way back in 1997 titled, "Act 1, Scene 1 in the conversation about race."
What have you learned?
July 1 is the first day of the second half of the year. A good time to take stock. The first half of 2020 has been … well … interesting to say the least, harrowing to say the most,...
A change of heart
Have you experienced a conversion? It's an old religious concept, but not limited to religion.
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