Michael Peregrine: How Chicago played a major role in the 1960 presidential race
As the 2024 presidential election barrels toward razor-thin results, it’s worth recalling Chicago’s outsize role in the 1960 election, one of the tightest presidential votes in history. It’s a role...
View ArticleEditorial: Aldermen must force Mayor Brandon Johnson to find solutions other...
Facing a 2025 budget gap of nearly $1 billion, the Johnson administration last week seized every option available to it other than any meaningful concessions from the city’s vast labor force to cover...
View ArticleDaniel DePetris: Iran is in a difficult position as it considers retaliating...
Late last month, Israel executed a three-round airstrike campaign on Iranian military targets in retaliation for Tehran’s ballistic missile attack some three weeks earlier. Approximately 20 Iranian...
View ArticleLetters: Republicans and Democrats both warn this election is going to be a...
What a dilemma voters face. From what I hear and read, this election will be a disaster. If former President Donald Trump wins, the Democrats feel it will be a disaster, and it will be the Republicans’...
View ArticleJim Nowlan: This is an obvious time for a Centrist Party in America
There is an open space for a significant new, centrist political party, created by the pull of the progressive and Donald Trump bases to their respective, opposite poles on the political spectrum. This...
View ArticleEditorial: It’s time to vote. All will be glad when this singularly nasty...
Election Day has arrived. Each of the two major presidential nominees has painted a dire and dystopian picture of America for 2025 — if the other candidate wins. We’re more optimistic. Whoever emerges...
View ArticleDr. Eugene R. Schnitzler: We must ensure voting rights for Americans with...
Nearly 250 years ago, our country’s Declaration of Independence unequivocally proclaimed that “all men are created equal.” Yet to physicians like me who diagnose and treat the more than 7 million...
View ArticleStephen Reily: Politicians have put arts funding on its heels. Museums must...
When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis terminated $32 million in state funding for more than 600 cultural organizations, including museums, the art world reacted in shock. What surprised me wasn’t that it...
View ArticleThe Rev. Marshall Hatch Jr.: West Garfield Park is a neighborhood worth...
The 2021 Politico article “Black people are leaving Chicago en masse. It’s changing the city’s power politics” raised a critical query. How do you get people to stay — or to come back? Many of us on...
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Letters: Blunder over school board president calls into question Mayor...
On Oct. 24, the Rev. Mitchell Ikenna Johnson became president of the Chicago Board of Education after Mayor Brandon Johnson appointed him to the board. A week later, Mayor Johnson was forced to ask him...
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Laura Washington: Washington Park is a palette of Black life in Chicago. I’ll...
Today, the sturm und drang from this pyrrhic political season will hopefully subside. It’s a good day for a stroll in Washington Park. That is my park, or so I thought and dreamed when I was just a...
View ArticleEditorial: Springfield faces a brutal year of reckoning
The election sucked most all of Illinoisans’ attention yesterday, and rightfully so. But as we sat glued to our television sets last night waiting for results to trickle in, a time bomb was ticking in...
View ArticleEditorial: Donald Trump’s win was a stunning repudiation of the chattering...
There are lots of ways of defining the liberal elite — assistant deans, network anchors, public health officials and, yes, legacy newspaper journalists — but there can be no question that Tuesday night...
View ArticleEditorial: Chicagoans send another thumbs-down message to Brandon Johnson and...
A national political earthquake dominated the election night news, but, closer to home, Chicago’s first-ever Board of Education election created tremors of its own. As we write, four school board...
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16-year-old: To say being a poll worker is hard is an understatement
Zoey Alzate, a junior at New Trier High School in Winnetka taking an Advanced Journalism class, below recounts her experience as an election judge on Nov. 5. To say being a poll worker is hard would...
View ArticleSteve Chapman: For Donald Trump, victory is not vindication
On Tuesday, the nation witnessed a vast and majestic spectacle: the American people participating in a democratic election to strike a blow against democracy. Enjoying the powers entrusted to them by...
View ArticlePaul Vallas: How to address the city’s budget deficit through CPS
Mayor Brandon Johnson told the public that if the City Council doesn’t give him his $300 million property tax increase, he’ll cut 2,473 police and 643 firefighters and paramedics and more city...
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Karin Tanabe and Victoria Kelly: We need to change the way we educate...
Last month, the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors known for their powerful global activism. These survivors, hibakusha in Japanese, have...
View ArticleLetters: After the election of Donald Trump, I wonder what the world is...
It’s not about an election. It’s not about politics. There is something wrong with our society. Deeply. Troubling. And in the words of my departed Polish grandmother (who I had nothing in common with...
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Letters: The economy is why Kamala Harris lost the election
As a generation, we’re deeply involved in our careers, interacting with a mix of people daily — from high-powered executives to blue-collar workers, Mexican laborers grabbing coffee before dawn and our...
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