The five local Walgreens stores to be closed are all on the city’s South and West sides, serving African American and Latino neighborhoods.
Laura Washington: Walgreens is closing stores and creating pharmacy deserts on Chicago’s South and West sides
Category: Columnists
Daniel DePetris: President Donald Trump doesn’t have a foreign policy yet
What we have is a lot of noise from Donald Trump but not much in the way of actual policy.
Edward Keegan: Redesign of the area around the United Center is being done (mostly) right
There needs to be clarification about how these extensive new “parks” in the plans to redevelop the area around the United Center will operate.
Clarence Page: Donald Trump’s pardons must not lead to the unpardonable
Hindsight, as the old saying goes, is always 20/20. That thought came to mind after a couple of the roughly 1,500 Jan. 6 offenders given pardons and commutations by President Trump said they didn’t want it.
Daniel DePetris: Let’s not overreact to Gaza ceasefire
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas agreed to stop the war for six weeks. They still haven’t agreed to stop the war permanently.
Heidi Stevens: Yes, 2025 is off to a heartbreaking start. And we can help heal it
We should resist the urge to wall ourselves off from what’s painful, and instead take improv’s “yes, and” approach, writes Heidi Stevens.
Clarence Page: Jimmy Carter’s funeral brought a rare and much-needed vision of peace
Former President Jimmy Carter was remembered as “something of a miracle.”
Elizabeth Shackelford: Plight of South Korea’s democracy has lessons for us
Polarization in South Korea, has helped a political leader rally enough support to potentially thwart accountability.
Daniel DePetris: New Orleans attack is not a reason to sound alarm over terrorism
The majority of attacks inside the U.S. since 9/11 have been perpetrated by people who had little connection to a terrorist organization.
Heidi Stevens: His wife told him to jump in the lake. More than 4 years later, he still is. ‘There’s just a lot of joy in jumping in the water’
In the summer of 2020, when a pandemic gripped the globe and civil unrest filled city streets and dread clouded the air like a low-hanging fog, Dan O’Conor would get up every morning, drive to a parking lot at Montrose Beach and stick a hand-scrawled sign inside his windshield: WENT TO JUMP IN THE LAKE. The sign was to keep his car from getting towed. The lake was to keep his sanity. Both …