Will Johnson: Many Chicago residents think their rent is too high
Here’s a first since we began regularly polling Chicagoans more than two years ago: Housing is now the chief worry for at least one large segment of the population, ahead of public safety and taxes,...
View ArticleDavid Greising: Taxpayers deserve to know just how much governments fattened...
The term “fiscal cliff,” or something close to it, gets thrown around a lot these days in Illinois. And alongside that scary term, one exigent factor comes in for a lot of blame: the impending end to...
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Peter H. Schwartz: Will the influence of Catholic ‘natural law’ on Trump...
In 2018, Vox commissioned me to write a story about medieval Catholic ideas and the radical transformation of American politics that had vaulted Donald Trump to the presidency. I thought it would be...
View ArticleEditorial: Should Chicago have a specific mechanism for recalling its mayor?...
As the fires continue to burn in Los Angeles, a petition to recall Mayor Karen Bass has gathered nearly 150,000 signatures. In California, a petition like this can lead to real political change,...
View ArticleLetters: A to-do list for the new Chicago Board of Education
Regarding the article “CPS on ‘financial brink,’ Civic Federation report says” (Jan. 14): As a fellow Chicago citizen, taxpayer and former educator, I offer my best wishes on their upcoming journey in...
View ArticleHeidi Stevens: Yes, 2025 is off to a heartbreaking start. And we can help...
January started off cruel and stayed there. At least 14 people were killed and dozens more were injured in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day when a driver intentionally slammed his truck into a...
View ArticleThe Tribune’s Quotes of the Week quiz for Jan. 18
Hey there, quotes readers! Enjoying the “warm” weather? Well, soak it in while you can, because freezing and subzero temps are around the corner. On Monday, CTA President Dorval Carter announced he...
View ArticleLetters: Readers share their hopes for the new year
Editor’s note: We asked readers to share their hopes for the new year, whether for family, community or country. Here are their responses. May hostages be freed My first fervent hope for the new year...
View ArticleClarence Page: Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream still offers a great agenda
As we are about to mark the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday, the same day as Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration, I am reminded of a famous quote from another King: ”Can we...
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Jeanne Theoharis and Erik Wallenberg: We must mark the places that define...
Go to Montgomery, Alabama, today, and markers to the Civil Rights Movement dot the city’s landscape: the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s house, the place where Rosa Parks was arrested, homes of other...
View ArticleEditorial: Joe Biden, the president who did not know when to leave the stage
Few Democrats will ever forget the night of June 27, 2024, when all of the careful mitigation, obfuscation and mendacity long practiced by loyal aides and close family members met the cruel reality of...
View ArticleLetters: LA is burning. Let’s find common ground to fight climate change.
Abhinav Anne’s wonderful Jan. 13 op-ed (“There are lessons to be learned in ashes of California’s fires”) could not have stated our climate emergency any better. The California fires have shown us that...
View ArticleEditorial: The Getty Museum survived the LA fires practically unscathed....
The J. Paul Getty Museum houses Vincent van Gogh’s “Irises” and many other priceless masterpieces in buildings that were dangerously close to the devastating Los Angeles wildfires. So where did the...
View ArticleLetters: A 25 mph speed limit is a proven solution to lowering the risk of...
The Tribune Editorial Board’s argument against lowering Chicago’s speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph (“Drive safe, but we don’t need a blanket speed limit change. Alders should vote no on La Spata...
View ArticleBridget Lee: I spent a week with Chicago’s first elected school board. Now...
This month, Chicago entered uncharted territory with its first hybrid elected school board — a historic shift after 187 years of appointed governance. When the district’s onboarding plans stalled amid...
View ArticleSheldon H. Jacobson: Do stowaways on airplanes expose a security risk?
Earlier this month, two bodies were found in the wheel well of a JetBlue airplane that departed from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport en route to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood...
View ArticleUS Rep. Nikki Budzinski: If Democrats want to win again, let’s show up and...
Donald Trump will once again be sworn in as president of the United States. For many of us, this was not the outcome we had hoped for or believed was possible. But it is our new reality. Since the...
View ArticleEditorial: Indiana stunt has no legs, but we can’t forget downstate secession...
Seven Illinois counties voted in November 2024 to explore seceding from the state of Illinois. Now, Indiana lawmakers want to capitalize on their dissatisfaction. Indiana’s House speaker, Republican...
View ArticleKara Margolis: We are in a mental health crisis. A ‘moonshot’ is needed.
On New Year’s Day, Master Sgt. Matthew Livelsberger reportedly blew himself up in a Tesla Cybertruck in an apparent suicide outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. Despite having a...
View ArticleVincent Trometter: Donald Trump should reverse Joe Biden’s US Steel decision
Consent of the governed is one of the founding principles of our country. Embedded in the Declaration of Independence, it harks to the frustrations of American colonists over unjust laws and levies...
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