Neil Steinberg biography

Neil Steinberg began writing for the Chicago Sun-Times in 1984, and joined the staff in 1987 as a feature writer.

He became a columnist in …

• Rx for Prentice Women’s Hospital? Tear it down

  For 17 years, I worked at the old Sun-Times Building at 401 N. Wabash, a squat gray trapezoidal box considered perhaps the ugliest building in Chicago. I tried to mitigate the embarrassment by pointing out that, unlike occupants in nearby buildings, we didn’t have to …Read More

• Steinberg: Vaughn case another reminder that America excels at murdering kids

  The murderer who shot Christopher Vaughn did a far less effective job than was done shooting his family. The Oswego man suffered a slight bullet wound to the thigh that June day in 2007, while his two daughters and son were executed at close range. Vaughn’s wife was shot by a gun jammed under her chin. On Thursday, a jury decided that the difference in lethal thoroughness was because it was Vaughn himself who did the shooting.

• Now that it’s over, what did it mean?

  Whew. With the kids at last heading back to school, while the city is in that moment before everybody gratefully turns their attention elsewhere — to the presidential election, to the White Sox pennant race, to a funny shaped cloud, to anything that doesn’t involve teachers, schools, unions or Karen Lewis — there is one lingering, significant question worth posing: What, if anything, might the 2012 Chicago teachers strike mean for organized labor?