Monday, January 19, 2026

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obituaries
  • by david hall
The Rev. James Lawson Jr., civil rights leader who preached nonviolent protest, dies at 95

James Lawson iintroduced Gandhian principles to American civil rights workers, showing how direct action could expose the immorality and fragility of racist white power structures.

city-hall
  • by david hall
$50 million settlement for 'Marquette Park 4' headed to City Council for final approval

The four men spent a combined 73 years in prison after confessing as teenagers to a 1995 double murder they did not commit. Three of them later said police coerced their confessions; the fourth man said police fabricated his.

israel-hamas-war
  • by david hall
Students walk out of Northwestern commencement, protesting Israel-Hamas war

Graduates marched out of the United Center and held a ceremony outside for students killed in Gaza, saying the university was complicit in the war. Counterprotesters called those statements antisemitic.

United States
  • by david hall
Brandon Johnson, Chicago’s leftist mayor, is struggling

Incompetence rather than ideology is what’s hurting him