By advance pre-paid reservation only Pulitzer Prize winner Clarence Page is a nationally syndicated columnist for the Chicago Tribune. He has been a columnist and member of the newspaper's editorial board since 1984.
Page covers the urban beat.
His columns focus on issues including education, politics, economics, prejudice, housing, hunger and crime. He has received two Pulitzer prizes, journalism's highest honor. Page has received a host of other awards, including honors from the Wisconsin ACLU Chapter for his columns on educating readers on constitutional rights. As a freelance writer, Page has contributed to the Wall Street Journal, Newsday, Chicago Magazine, The Chicago Reader, Washington Monthly, and the New Republic. In 1990, Page presided over the Harold Washington Chair in Political Science at Roosevelt University, where he taught political science.