The Huffington Post, December 6, 2008 — As just about everyone pointed out on Tuesday night, Barack Obama’s election as president was a moment of huge historical significance for the nation. Obama’s eloquent election-night speech in Grant Park is also surely one of the great moments in Chicago history… Read my blog post at the… Continue reading When the world watched Chicago
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Showdown over guns
This article by Robert Loerzel originally appeared in Illinois Issues magazine’s November 2008 issue. Ever since the Founding Fathers wrote the Second Amendment, Americans have been arguing about what it means. Does it give every citizen the right to own guns? Or is it just about the need for a militia? Illinois has often been… Continue reading Showdown over guns
On the Brown’s Chicken murders
This article by Robert Loerzel originally appeared in Pioneer Press on March 22, 2007. Editor’s note: In 1993, Pioneer Press reporter Robert Loerzel was one of the first reporters on the scene of the Brown’s Chicken murders in Palatine and has followed the case closely ever since, ncluding the upcoming trial of suspected killer Juan… Continue reading On the Brown’s Chicken murders
A profile of conservative Congressman Philip Crane
This series of articles by Robert Loerzel originally appeared in Pioneer Press September 17 to October 1, 1992. Crane won re-election that year, serving until he was defeated in 2004 by Democrat Melissa Bean. Crane died November 8, 2014, at the age of 84. Crane’s father died in 1995 and his wife, Arlene, died in 2012.… Continue reading A profile of conservative Congressman Philip Crane