It was a dramatic and unhappy end to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s career that could have been remembered for very different reasons.
Day: August 9, 2024
Allan Ripp: ‘The Bear’ has nothing on my wife’s cooking as caregiving
Well before Season 3 of “The Bear” dropped, I tried calculating how many meals Sarah has made me. The total could be 30,000 or higher.
Actor Lamorne Morris, a Chicago native and star of Fox’s ‘New Girl’ series, sells Burr Ridge mansion for $3.5M
Morris purchased the mansion in late 2022 and had been customizing it.
David McGrath: Summer, before technology took over, was a time for imagination
When my brother returned from summer camp, the amazements he described had so fired up our imaginations that we “played” Camp Richards.
Editorial: Sonya Massey tragedy shows it’s better for municipalities to be minus police officers than to hire the wrong ones
The horrific shooting death of Springfield resident Sonya Massey by a deputy whose hiring was questionable at best is a cautionary tale.
Got milkweed? Field Museum study shows how Chicago gardeners can help monarch butterflies
Looking at 450 small urban gardens, researchers found more monarch eggs when there was common milkweed and milkweed that was at least five years old.
What to do around Chicago: Bud Billiken Parade, Air Show weekend and the world’s largest karaoke party
Also around town, the annual “Dance for Life,” Billy Porter at Northalsted Market Days and Metallica at Soldier Field.
David Borris and Jack Lawlor: Commemoration of the Hiroshima, Nagasaki atomic attacks are more relevant than ever
The arc of progress in efforts to regulate nuclear arms is going in the wrong direction.
Letters: Mayor Richard M. Daley’s legacy isn’t worth celebrating
Chicago will pay dearly for the parking meter debacle — for a total of 75 years.
Today in History: United States bombs Nagasaki
On Aug. 9, 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, a U.S. B-29 Superfortress code-named Bockscar dropped a nuclear device over Nagasaki; the bombing and subsequent radiation poisoning killed an estimated 74,000 people.