Micky Horstman: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s path to redemption
Summer in Chicago should feel like a nonstop party, but we made the mistake of inviting buzzkill Mayor Brandon Johnson. So far, his administration has made summer less entertaining by canceling the...
View ArticleClarence Page: In the ‘Omnicause’, colliding causes can defeat each other’s...
When does political protest seem to become an end in itself? Climate firebrand Greta Thunberg, 21, seems to raise that question when looking at photos of her arrest last month outside the Eurovision...
View ArticleEditorial: Julian Assange is going home to Australia. Good. And good riddance.
For those of us who work in traditional media and line up firmly on the side of whistleblowers and press freedoms, the Julian Assange business has always been fraught. First, there is our collective...
View ArticleEditorial: Robert Crimo III, the alleged Highland Park shooter, causes pain...
Robert Crimo III, the man accused of killing seven people and wounding 48 others when he opened fire at the July Fourth 2022 parade in Highland Park, is entitled to both competent defense attorneys and...
View ArticleAbhinav Anne: 7 lessons from my journey in youth climate advocacy
“Whose future? Our future! Whose planet? Our planet!” Our chants echoed through the streets of Chicago, carried by a group of individuals united in purpose. Our voices demanded accountability and...
View ArticleLetters: The sentencing of corrupt ex-Ald. Edward Burke was a disappointment
The light sentence awarded to ex-Ald. Ed Burke for his crimes and betrayal of the public trust was, as the Tribune Editorial Board noted, a gift (“Ed Burke, Chicago’s rich, powerful pol, snags some of...
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Editorial: Tuesday’s primaries offered hope that American voters are tiring...
The headline from Tuesday’s primaries was the resounding defeat of U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman, the first member of the so-called Squad of ultra-leftist Democrats to fall to a more moderate challenger. But...
View ArticlePaul Vallas: Illinois educators see the light on school crime. Will the CTU?
The president of the Illinois Education Association celebrates the passage of Senate Bill 1400 in a recent Tribune op-ed, which aims to address the unintended consequences of SB 100. The latter was...
View ArticleWillie Wilson: Democrats and Republicans have both failed to address wealth...
On Thursday night, the two presumptive presidential nominees will face off in their first debate, hosted by CNN. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump lead their respective political...
View ArticleLetters: Mayor Brandon Johnson needs to learn what it means to be a true...
As a Navy veteran who has grown up in Chicago, I dreamed of the day that another African American man would become mayor after Mayor Harold Washington passed away from a heart attack during his second...
View ArticleChris Schroeder: I have been homeless, and it takes energy to ask for help
During a recent weekend, I went to CVS to pick up medications after a doctor’s visit. As I walked out, I noticed a father and his daughter in the parking lot holding a sign asking for food or money or...
View ArticleLisa M. Zarda: Teaching your kids to swim this summer? Steer clear of floaties.
In the drowning prevention community, we dread hearing the other F-word: floaties. These seemingly innocuous devices give responsible parents a false sense of security with the assumption that the...
View ArticleEditorial: City Council has a Google Doc full of wild new tax ideas and no...
The City Council’s mad scramble for new revenue sources, just getting underway per the orders of Mayor Brandon Johnson, is shaping up to be a spectacle that should embarrass City Hall. It won’t, of...
View ArticleElizabeth Shackelford: Little islands could spur big trouble in the South...
The South China Sea has become one of the world’s most dangerous potential flashpoints. Territorial disputes in this area — often over uninhabitable rocks — have been a source of conflict and competing...
View ArticleGarien Gatewood: City initiatives offer new hope for survivors of violence in...
Chicago has long been without a centralized plan for how to support victims and survivors of violent crime, but a significant shift is underway. Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration recognizes the...
View ArticleHeidi Stevens: Is rolling back no-fault divorce really the way to preserve...
When the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade in June 2022, overturning the constitutional right to an abortion, analysts predicted a wave of socially conservative legislation, particularly laws...
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Editorial: As America sank into the couch, Joe Biden and Donald Trump...
The two gnarly old men had been asked about the ballooning cost of child care, a nightmare for many young parents. In response, they bragged about their amateur golf games. It was all awful, But if...
View ArticleLetters: Mike Royko’s toughness in a city of toughs
Rick Kogan asked if Mike Royko was the toughest man in Chicago (“At Newberry Library and on stage, the return of Mike Royko,” June 23). Maybe not in a street fight, but he was the champ when it came to...
View ArticleTribune Opinion quotes of the week
The week started with notorious ex-Ald. Ed Burke being sentenced to two years in prison for corruption. This news event in Chicago politics seemed weeks, not days, old by the end of the week after the...
View ArticleFaith leaders: Where’s the money going for reducing Chicago’s gun violence?
“Where’s the money coming from?” Over the past six years, whenever our coalition of faith leaders has met with mayors and aldermen about creating — by ordinance — a permanent Office of Gun Violence...
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