Willie Wilson: Is the newly installed Chicago school board a Halloween trick...
The education of our children should be a top priority for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and his newly handpicked school board members. But they are offering more tricks than treats. When is enough,...
View ArticleMujeeb R. Khan and Caise D. Hassan: A protest vote against Kamala Harris...
Voters concerned with ending the war in Gaza would make a fatal mistake by abandoning the Democrats and voting for a third-party candidate or Donald Trump. Despite the Biden administration’s morally...
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John W. Boyer: How a dignitary who visited Chicago in 1918 can guide us in...
In the final days of this deeply contested campaign, I am reminded of an epic political event in Chicago that has been all but forgotten. It was 1918, at the end of a World War that transformed...
View ArticleLetters: Will we use Election Day to move forward from hate and ignorance?
Donald Trump’s incendiary comments about all those he and his misled flock consider “the other” continue. These never-ending attacks will become an irreversible stain on Trump and his campaign. His...
View ArticleEditorial: Mayor Brandon Johnson did the right thing in axing Rev. Mitchell...
On Thursday morning we called for the resignation of the Rev. Mitchell Ikenna Johnson as president of the Chicago Board of Education. By Thursday afternoon, Brandon Johnson told us in person at a board...
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Maggie Mulqueen: A trip to Africa offers insight into the election back home
Vacations are usually about getting away from it all, and during an election year, the thought of being off the grid was more enticing than usual. Although we didn’t choose to go to Africa for that...
View ArticleLetters: Mayor Brandon Johnson insists on digging a deeper hole for himself
Can someone please tell Mayor Brandon Johnson to stop digging deeper the hole that he is currently in with voters? From unceremoniously throwing out Dr. Allison Arwady after she helped guide the city...
View ArticleJonathan Zimmerman: What one immigrant taught me about the election
Recently, I flew to Texas to see a guy I taught with 40 years ago in rural Nepal, where I served in the Peace Corps. Our village was a three-day walk from a bus road. There was no running water, no...
View ArticleHeidi Stevens: Regardless of the outcome, this election is going to take some...
I’m writing this with no idea who our next president will be. You may be reading this already knowing. I’m typing this six days before Election Day. It will appear in the printed version of my hometown...
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Franz Burnier: The riches of DuPage County’s prairie are why I will be voting...
Beware of walking on the prairie: The plants’ beauty may be contagious. A healthy prairie is characterized by the diversity of its plant species, as well as its variety of insects, reptiles, birds and...
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Elizabeth Shackelford: As Americans wait for their election, the world waits...
This week, as many Americans fret over what our country will look like after the upcoming national election, much of the world is fretting with us. The United States may not be the unipolar power that...
View ArticleThe Tribune’s Quotes of the Week quiz for Nov. 2
The presidential election is just three days away, Chicago. If you’re registered and haven’t voted yet, make a plan to and check out the Tribune’s election coverage for everything you need to know,...
View ArticleLetters: Mayor Brandon Johnson should take a lesson from George Constanza
I have a suggestion for Mayor Brandon Johnson. Facing a record-low 14% approval rating and making every kind of wrong decision a chief executive could possibly make, Johnson should take a page out of...
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Edward Keegan: New Damen Green Line station elevates transit above the mundane
The CTA hasn’t made much good news lately. Stories about crime, a lack of cleanliness, ridership below pre-pandemic levels and general perceptions that there are better ways to get around the city have...
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Clarence Page: The presidential campaign season ends on cruel notes
It seems to me that Tony Hinchcliffe, the podcast host and alleged “roast comedian” who warmed up the crowd at Donald Trump’s recent campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in New York, could have...
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Jonah Newman: A guide to the 2024 Cook County judicial retention races
Maybe you’ve had this experience: You get to the bottom of your ballot and see dozens of names you’ve never heard of. They’re the Cook County retention judges. Judges might be the most obscure names...
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Grab the scissors. Our ‘bedsheet ballot’ for the 2024 general election is here.
Today the Tribune Editorial Board publishes its traditional “bedsheet ballot,” a list of our endorsements in Tuesday’s general election. The bedsheet ballot appears in today’s Sunday edition of the...
View ArticleTribune Editorial Board endorsements for the 2024 general election
Illinois voters head to the polls again on November 5 for the election, with candidates appearing on the ballot for president, Congress, Illinois General Assembly, Illinois Supreme Court and local...
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Letters: Are many male voters uncomfortable with women being their equals?
In his Oct. 29 letter “Assumptions about male voters,” David G. Whiteis indicates that Donald Trump-leaning working-class male voters are upset that their male identity as the primary financial support...
View ArticleJennifer Bishop Jenkins: Marsy’s Law has been putting crime victims at the...
It has now been 10 years since the good citizens of Illinois overwhelmingly voted, by one of the highest margins in state history, to approve expanded and enforceable rights for crime victims. The...
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