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 Monday, Apr 2 O'Hare International Airport may be the most valuable slab of concrete in Chicago. The $8.5 billion plan to update and expand terminals will be a boost to the city and its fortunes. |
| Ald. Ed Burke, who backed an ordinance to ban body armor for Chicago civilians, questioned who would wear such gear besides "a hardcore criminal or a deranged mass shooter." Glad he asked. Among them: Overnight cashiers, ride-share drivers, oh, and news reporters. |
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| Through the months preceding his assassination on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was haunted by a sense of impending death. |
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| Another police shooting of an unarmed black man, this time in Sacramento, is likely to play out like all the others, writes Leonard Pitts. |
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| Lately, a lot of people in Washington are saying that education reform hasn't worked very well. Don't believe it, writes Arne Duncan. |
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| "I declined to renew my contract as Fox News' strategic analyst because of the network's propagandizing for the Trump administration," writes Ralph Peters. |
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| President Donald Trump won the stare down with South Korea and China. He's waving the threat of punitive trade tariffs as a bargaining chip to force pro-America concessions from our trading partners, writes Stephen Moore. |
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| Check out the latest cartoons by Tribune editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis. |
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