Tribune Opinion quotes of the week for June 22
It was a hot week in Chicago as the city saw yet another tragic shooting of a child. Tensions in the Illinois GOP reached a boiling point, causing its chairman to step down. Gov. J.B. Pritzker and...
View ArticleEditorial: Mr. Putin goes to Pyongyang and we don’t like that show
Peter Morgan’s play “Patriots,” which ends its Broadway run Sunday, tells the backstory of the rise of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The author of “The Crown” sees the story as the arrogant folly...
View ArticleLetters: The Tribune Editorial Board’s car-centric thoughts run counter to...
The Tribune Editorial Board’s editorial responding to the opposition to the Illinois Department of Transportation’s Redefine the Drive plans advances a common and pernicious viewpoint (“A broadside...
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Eli J. Finkel: The failings of the Chicago Principles when it comes to free...
Recent protests at colleges and universities have exposed the fractured foundation of the prevailing framework for campus speech. When protesters form a human chain to prevent a student with opposing...
View ArticleClarence Page: This young GI met Donald Sutherland in a bygone era. RIP to an...
News of Donald Sutherland’s death at age 88 took me back to a day in 1971 when he was protesting the Vietnam War onstage with Jane Fonda and I was one of about 1,000 off-duty soldiers in their...
View ArticleWill Johnson: Why you should hope NASCAR’s Chicago Street Race is a smashing...
No place does summer like Chicago. From now through Labor Day, millions of visitors will flock here, filling the city’s hotels, restaurants, shops, museums, Navy Pier and the rest of the lakefront,...
View ArticleLetters: Building mental health resources is why I support Mayor Brandon Johnson
I’m a resident of the 6th Ward and leader with Southside Together Organizing for Power, a community organization that talks to South Siders about mental health crises and fights for the city to reopen...
View ArticleLaura Washington: This week’s presidential debate has the makings of history
The first debate of the 2024 presidential race is an equal opportunity for disaster for both candidates. Thursday’s faceoff between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden could be a...
View ArticleEditorial: Crimes of the century? Monstrous COVID-19 fraud leaves taxpayers...
On his Instagram page, Hadi Isbaih of suburban Palos Heights lists some of the services his Bridgeview company provided, including tax preparation, bookkeeping and translation for immigration...
View ArticleDr. Juanita Mora: Chicago must eliminate gas stoves in new buildings for...
I think often about one of my patients, a 7-year-old Latino child. No matter how much I adjusted or maximized medication or identified asthma triggers, my patient had trouble breathing and kept...
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Ed Burke through the eyes of editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis
A selection of cartoons by Tribune editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis on ex-Ald. Ed Burke’s corruption. On June 24, 2024, Burke was sentenced to 2 years in prison and ordered to pay a $2 million dollar...
View ArticleEditorial: Ed Burke, Chicago’s rich, powerful pol, snags some of the luck of...
Edward Burke is going to prison. But the 80-year-old former alderman, arguably the most powerful politician in Chicago for decades, surely won’t be incarcerated for close to the two years he got Monday...
View ArticleDaniel DePetris: An Israel-Hezbollah war could be in the making
As the Israel-Hamas war is supposedly entering a new phase of more targeted raids in Gaza, another war is raging along the Israel-Lebanon border. Since Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault in southern Israel, the...
View ArticleKenneth Seeskin: Are the Ten Commandments the basis of our moral system?
The governor of Louisiana just signed a law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools. There are two problems with this. The first and most obvious is that the Constitution...
View ArticleLetters: Saying goodbye to the cicadas
With sadness, the cicada season is coming to an end. Time to reflect on these wonderful creatures. First encountering cicadas at age 13, I was saddened that these delicate creatures can live above...
View ArticleEditorial: Welcome back to the Bean. What took you so long?
Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate, located in Millennium Park, is Chicago’s most successful new visitor attraction of the 21st century. So far, nothing else has come close to The Bean, as Kapoor’s work is...
View ArticleHeather Reams and Rebecca Lorenzen: Hydrogen is key to fighting climate...
Hydrogen is causing a buzz on Capitol Hill and rightly so. This emerging energy technology has the potential to unlock an abundance of clean energy solutions and reduce energy-related emissions —...
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Editorial: Ann Lurie, a former nurse who used her inherited fortune to give...
Few former nurses find themselves in a position to give away $100 million to their former hospital. But Ann Lurie, who died Monday at the age of 79, once was a pediatric critical care nurse at the...
View ArticleChristine Ledbetter: It’s hard to find heroes on today’s Supreme Court
A photo of Ruth Bader Ginsburg is pinned by a magnet to my refrigerator door, nestled among pictures of my grandchildren. With her head bowed, she is reading briefs during intermission at Arena...
View ArticleLetters: There is no money for Mayor Brandon Johnson’s latest intentions
I voted for my fellow Austin resident, Mayor Brandon Johnson, but almost daily, he provides yet another reason for me to question that decision. Johnson’s decision to play the race card is tiresome and...
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