Rod Young, president of Calumet Park-based Black Contractors, Owners and Executives, and founder Shon Harris defend DEI programs.
Column: South suburban business advocates warn targeting of DEI will hurt small businesses and the economy
Category: Daily Southtown Opinion
Donna Vickroy: Amphibian creatures don’t come much cuter than axolotls, and they make great pets too
You might know axolotls from video games like “Minecraft” and “Pokemon,” but the aquatic salamanders with unique, adorable and popular with people who keep amphians as pets.
Sen. Michael E. Hastings: We must protect Illinois families from unfair insurance premium hikes
Insurance companies regularly raise their rates, often with no prior insurance claim or other unforeseen event to warrant the hikes.
David McGrath: Trump’s use of ‘border czar’ bully to terrorize immigrants taking page from sadistic Civil Rights-era Bull Connor
Donald Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan’s taking a page right out of notorious segragationist and Ku Klux Klan supporter Bull Connor’s playbook from the 1960s.
Column: Park Forest Board mentions mayoral confrontation, takes no action
Park Forest Trustee Randall White said he was “saddened and disgusted” by dispute of Mayor Joe Woods and Antiwone and Shalonda Hardy.
Donna Vickroy: Mission accomplished for late suburban astrophysicist who proved his doubters wrong
While Earthlings were wrapping gifts and preparing holiday buffets this past Christmas Eve, a rocket named for a south suburban Chicago man was “touching” the sun. Traveling at “a blazing 430,000 miles per hour,” according to NASA, the Parker Solar Probe became the first spacecraft to reach the outer corona of the sun. If only its namesake, Eugene Parker, had lived to celebrate it.
Column: Flossmoor cancer survivor combats food insecurity among cancer patients
Flossmoor resident and cancer survivor Ann Jackson launched the Center for Food Equity in Medicine at Flossmoor Community Church.
Column: Fire ravaging Los Angeles bring personal memories of Park Forest blaze
Columnist Jerry Shnay recalls when his son and daughter-in-law’s house burn in Park Forest, destroying belongings and memories.
Donna Vickroy: What a year it has been since you left us
It is better to hurt like hell because someone is gone than to never have known the joy that came from loving them.
Column: Hoping for better things with the dawn of 2025
Columnist Jerry Shnay looks to better things in 2025 with annual quotation by Eugene Pickett of the Unitarian Church of America.