As I sat in the barber’s chair recently, an old man came up to me, extended his hand and introduced himself.

When I read the Christmas story, I always wonder: How was it that Mary came to give birth in a barn?

An ambulance arrived at the house of a U.S. senator recently and hauled his 14-year-old daughter away for self-inflicted stab wounds.

I love my Wednesday morning walks with my friend Patty, a retired teacher like me.

Democracy is dying in this nation, and it’s being killed by entrenched interests in both political parties.

There was no menace left in the school shooter who sat across from me in the prison’s visitors room.

The summer of 1971 was special.

Every once in a while, you meet someone who changes the trajectory of your life.

As my parents walked down a street in China, a man sidled up next to my mother and asked if they had a Bible.

Here are seven words you never want to say or hear:

What is meant by the phrase “back the blue”?

When I gave birth to my son more than 19 years ago, the doctors in the room said, “I’m sorry.”

Who would sacrifice a job they loved to reveal a wrong committed against a child?

On Friday, Aug. 19, Chicago Police Department Officer Danny Golden returned home from the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.

In 2021, 107,000 people died of a drug overdose in the United States.

As executive director of the Beverly Area Planning Association (BAPA), I would like to thank The Beverly Review for its reporting (Aug. 3) about the Wizarding Weekend and also to point out that the event was put on by a committee of dedicated neighbors, business owners and institutions in th…

There is little sympathy for a rat.

Two of the biggest contributors to hard-core, Trump-supported candidates are not who you might guess: Gov. J.B. Pritzker and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

It was a carnival of the bizarre.

Jim Ryan was a tough-as-nails prosecutor who rose to become a two-term Illinois attorney general.

I glanced at the calendar recently, and the date stared back at me. It was my brother Danny’s birthday.

Back in January, Phil Luciano, perhaps Illinois’ best newspaper columnist, hung up his fedora at the Peoria Journal-Star and left the newspaper business.

Should the government subsidize nostalgia?

Our society has developed quite a bit of consternation over folks who kneel on football fields.

Passover, Ramadan and Lent all came to an end during the past few weeks, and I’ve found myself thinking of the oddest thing: a cow.

Illinois politicians must think we are really a dumb bunch.

Not much has been written about America’s first responders retiring in unprecedented numbers all across America.

Defending the accused shouldn’t be a mark of shame.

The problem with inflation is that there is more than enough blame to go around.

The tears still flow.

During and since my time as an active-duty officer in the United States Army, I have devoted much time and energy to protecting military service members from financial predators.

Please allow me to take part in a little creative indulgence in saying that anyone familiar with the hit TV show “Seinfeld” certainly remembers the Soup Nazi and his famous line, “No soup for you!”

Mary DeVoto, the Mother McAuley High School teacher who was recently fired for using a racist slur as part of a history lesson, should be given a second chance.

Colleges should admit the most qualified applicant.

For the first time in more than 50 years, the Rooneys do not live on 104th and Campbell.

Carjackings have become the new rage among criminals, not only in the Chicago area but all across the nation.

I called the bank last week to inquire about a check I had written.

Everything is terrible. But, there’s still hope.

In the Chicago area, business leaders see the growth of a service economy driven by an expansion of tech firms and independent practitioners looking to capitalize on the demands of a 21st-century marketplace.

Ok, I’ll admit it. I have Santa Claus issues.

As the U.S. Supreme Court ponders whether to overturn Roe vs. Wade, all eyes are on Justice Amy Coney Barrett—and her religious beliefs.

The number-one reason innocent people go to prison is because of government misconduct.

I was digging around in a barn loft a while back collecting things that had been stored away for half a century.

There is no place more miserable to be on Thanksgiving Day than in a buffet line in a Las Vegas casino.

Always assume the gun is loaded.

Small Business Saturday was founded by American Express in 2010 to help bring more customers to local shops.