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Edward Keegan: O’Hare’s new parking garage rises to the occasion
The parking garage is a generally unheralded architectural type. But even this utilitarian mainstay of contemporary life can rise to the occasion, as it recently has at O’Hare International Airport’s...
View ArticleEditorial: What should happen when Mr. Johnson goes to Washington
In a few short weeks, Brandon Johnson will likely face the most intense public grilling of his career. And whatever you think of our far-left mayor or the sanctuary city concept, it’s in Chicago’s...
View ArticleEditorial: No responsible employer offers employee buyouts when the money may...
As those of us who work in media know all too well, buyout offers are a frequent part of corporate attempts to reduce the size of a workforce. In theory, they offer a win-win: revenue-challenged...
View ArticleColin Fleming: If your team is losing, just remember — it’s not the ref’s fault
We tend to think that football reigns supreme as the king of sports in the United States and that it’s quaint to look back on how baseball ever occupied the throne. But we could argue that football...
View ArticleLetters: Illinois attorney general is wrong to support the settlement with...
As the father of an 18-year-old girl who died from a single OxyContin pill in 2006 and as a creditor in the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy proceeding, I must voice my strong disappointment in Illinois...
View ArticleEditorial: Why Henry Hyde’s name should stay on the DuPage County courthouse
History often is complex and resistant to simple narratives. So are people. So it is a needlessly divisive mistake for DuPage County Board Chair Deborah Conroy to push for her fellow board members to...
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Ran Kivetz: Time for justice at the International Criminal Court over Israel
The wheels of justice may turn slowly, but they’re finally catching up with officials at the International Criminal Court after President Donald Trump signed an executive order sanctioning those who...
View ArticleEditorial: The price of eggs? Just one sore spot in a food economy that has...
It’s getting painfully expensive to eat. We realize that’s not a news flash, but it’s what’s on Americans’ minds. No wonder. Among the necessities of life, food — sustenance — is close to the top....
View ArticleBob Kustra: Remembering the Holocaust amid the rise of white Christian...
It’s not an experience one soon forgets. As an Illinois state representative in the 1980s with Skokie in my district, I visited synagogues and temples where I met Holocaust survivors with numbers...
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Letters: President Donald Trump’s cowboy diplomacy carries great risks for...
Daniel DePetris’ column “Trump’s cowboy diplomacy in the Western Hemisphere is succeeding, but has risks” (Feb. 6) is correct in at least one sense: the very real risks President Donald Trump’s...
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Editorial: Rod Blagojevich, Superstar? Not in our good book.
Back in early 2009, Chicago’s storied Second City comedy theater created a satirical musical spoof of a former governor of Illinois, “Rod Blagojevich, Superstar.” “My party, my party, why have you...
View ArticleLetters: We need President Donald Trump to succeed
It is very disappointing to see the animus from some readers of the Tribune toward our president well after the election. It is frustrating to see the continued negative attitudes and comments about...
View ArticleEditorial: Trump and Musk have pennies in their sights. On that we can agree.
With a social media post during Super Bowl LIX, President Donald Trump, perhaps bored with the game, decided the moment was ripe to condemn the all-American penny as collateral DOGE damage. At least...
View ArticleCook County assessor: We are improving accuracy and fairness in property...
In a recent editorial, the Tribune Editorial Board argues that “the job of those who assess property for tax purposes is to get the calculations as correct as possible in light of what’s actually...
View ArticleRep. Mike Quigley: We have a historic opportunity in Gaza. Let’s not squander...
In this never-ending stream of jaw-dropping announcements coming out of the White House, it’s easy to get overwhelmed and distracted. That’s what administration officials want. But despite the...
View ArticleDaniel DePetris: Is Congress fine with giving up its war powers?
President Donald Trump has signed more executive orders in his first 10 days than his recent predecessors have signed during their first 100. Trump, who fancies himself a man of action, is relishing...
View ArticleLeonard C. Goodman: Rod Blagojevich was prosecuted for everyday politics. He...
President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich helps correct an injustice and is a proper use of the president’s pardon power. Blagojevich was a rare Illinois...
View ArticleLetters: President Donald Trump’s pardon of ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich is a slap...
That President Donald Trump commuted former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s federal prison sentence for his corruption convictions during his first term, and then pardoned him recently, shows that the president...
View ArticleEditorial: Hold my beer — aluminum tariffs could drive up costs for Illinois...
Americans like beer. On Super Bowl Sunday, some experts estimate Americans drank about 325 million gallons of it. A day after the big game, however, President Donald Trump announced 25% tariffs on...
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Laura Washington: Here’s one strategy the Democrats could use against...
President Donald Trump is the Wilbur Wood of American politics. Old baseball heads will recall Wood was the ace knuckleballer for the Chicago White Sox in the 1970s. Since Trump returned to the White...
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