The Cross I Bear

My latest column in this weekend’s Chicago Sun-Times…

My latest column in this weekend’s Chicago Sun-Times…

…The cross and the cure is one we must all bear.

It matters not whether we are urban or suburban, Jew or Catholic or Muslim, white, black or brown, gay or straight. This is a human crisis, a tragedy of epic proportions — one I have written about as a crime reporter in this town in the 1990’s when murder surged….

John Fountain: A carpenter etches the name of every murder victim
I must bear this cross. I have tried many times, for many years, to finally lay this burden down. I still struggle with…chicago.suntimes.com