Showing posts with label historic tributes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label historic tributes. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Let’s just honor everybody with statues on the Illinois capitol grounds

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The “Christmas Tree bill.” It was a phrase I always particularly detested from my days back when I covered the Illinois Statehouse scene. ...
Monday, January 13, 2014

D.C. building for Eliot Ness?

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Let me state up front that I’m not fond of naming buildings or streets for people. There’s always the stink over whether someone’s achieveme...
Friday, November 22, 2013

Kennedy niche in our collective memory only now coming into focus

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We’re at the half-century mark – 50 years Friday since the moment when someone with objections to then-President John F. Kennedy’s existence...
Monday, July 16, 2012

A ‘blues’ museum on Block 37? They might as well bring back the ice rink

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I like the idea of museums, particularly when they pay tribute to something that so many of us know little about. I also do not have ...
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Friday, July 3, 2009

Fireworks fest leaves me cold

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Friday is one of those events that has evolved into a Chicago tradition that I must admit leaves me cold. I have never done it. And I wonder...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

A DAY IN THE LIFE (of Chicago): Former Lottery chief now social secretary

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While most people were paying attention to President-elect Barack Obama on Monday because of his Treasury Department appointments, the one t...
Monday, November 17, 2008

Aren’t we getting ahead of ourselves with talk of renaming school for Obama?

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He has nearly two months to go before he is officially sworn in as president, yet there are some who are all too quick to want to pay brick-...