by Nick Patricca | Jun 23, 2025
While Trump was celebrating his birthday reviewing a military parade, the people of Rogers Park were celebrating their commitment to living together in harmony with works of mural art on the Loyola Park seawall. Every Father’s Day weekend since 1993, Rogers Park...
by Nick Patricca | May 23, 2025
This article is the fourth in a series examining the attacks on US higher education. Links to the previous three articles are posted at the end of this essay published 12 May 2025 in Windy City Times. The middle two essays were written collaboratively with my Loyola...
by Nick Patricca | May 10, 2025
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, Chicago-born and -raised, was elected as the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church on the second day of the Vatican Conclave, May 08, 2025, which is the Feast of Our Lady of Pompeii. The Prevost family is of American Creole...
by Nick Patricca | Dec 5, 2024
It might come as a surprise to most citizens of the United States of America that our founding fathers were deeply suspicious of political parties and partisan politics. In his 1796 Farewell Address George Washington warned that political parties inevitably lead to...
by Nick Patricca | Sep 22, 2024
Twice, in the five presidential elections since the year 2000, two candidates for the U.S. presidency, who won the popular vote, lost in the Electoral College. In 2000, Albert Gore Jr won the popular vote against George W. Bush by 543,895 but failed in the Electoral...
