Algernon Austin: There is a racial preference in the job market. It’s for...
Question: If you were a high school dropout, wanted to find work and could choose to be white or Black, which would be better? Answer: White. Black dropouts typically have an unemployment rate twice...
View ArticleEditorial: Frigid temperatures highlight the harshness of Chicago homeless...
Bitter winds cut through Chicago streets last week, covering sidewalks with ice and driving people indoors. For thousands of unhoused Chicagoans, these conditions weren’t just uncomfortable — they were...
View ArticleLetters: Bravo to Illinois’ federal lawmakers for finally speaking up about...
Finally! Illinois’ Democratic senators and congressional representatives spoke out in a joint news conference last Monday to condemn Donald Trump’s reckless and chaotic use of executive orders to...
View ArticleClarence Page: Voters’ remorse? Not much, but give it time
Colorful billionaire and presidential adviser Elon Musk sparked quite a reaction at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington last week when he leaped around the stage waving a...
View ArticleJohn T. Shaw: Danielle Sassoon’s stirring act of statesmanship sends forth a...
For many, this is a dispiriting time in our country. Established political norms are crumbling, important institutions are faltering, and leaders from all walks of American life are cowering and...
View ArticleEditorial: Peoples Gas gets the right marching orders at long last
The Illinois Commerce Commission last week finally did what the state should have done years ago: kill Peoples Gas’ unaffordable, ill-conceived program to rebuild the natural gas pipe system below...
View ArticleAld. Pat Dowell: The capital bond issuance will strengthen Chicago’s...
As the chair of City Council’s Finance Committee, it is incumbent upon me to correct the record on the politically motivated posturing that has been circulating regarding this bond issuance....
View ArticleEditorial: Can a pair of lawsuits beat a Full House? A Wisconsin casino...
The Potawatomi Casino Hotel in Milwaukee is one of the Midwest’s top gaming destinations, so you’d think its owners would be OK with an occasional losing hand. Think again: After its bid fell short for...
View ArticleLetters: Gutting of federal health agencies has consequences for patients...
Gut-punched doesn’t begin to describe my feeling about the Trump administration’s gutting of federal health care agencies. You see, I am the full-time caretaker of my 26-year-old son, Gabe, who has...
View ArticleJoe Ferguson and Dana Levenson: How Mayor Brandon Johnson should invest in...
No one should begrudge Mayor Brandon Johnson wanting to use a municipal bond to finance badly needed infrastructure projects, such as road and bridge repair and equipment like fire trucks and police...
View ArticleDaniel DePetris: The Arab world, alarmed by Donald Trump, tries to figure out...
When President Donald Trump first pitched his plan for post-war Gaza during a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this month, it was difficult to parse whether...
View ArticleEditorial: Metra’s costly investigation into its own police calls for...
Why did Metra pay a team of outside lawyers $1.57 million to investigate its Police Department? The firm McGuireWoods was hired in 2023 to dive into anonymous allegations of troubling behavior and...
View ArticleThe Rev. Michael L. Pfleger: Why is St. Sabina flying the US flag upside...
There is a danger of letting what’s happening in America become normalized. We have watched thousands of federal workers fired from their jobs, with no reason, putting their homes and families at...
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Editorial: The Ukraine issue comes with the fog of war. But what matters most...
“Every few weeks,” wrote one of our more interesting critics, Walt Zlotow, on his Substack last spring, “the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board publishes an editorial misrepresenting the war in Ukraine.”...
View ArticleEditorial: Energy futures for Winnetka, Naperville and St. Charles held...
Three high-profile Chicago suburbs — Naperville, Winnetka and St. Charles — must decide soon on whether to recommit for another 30 years to an arrangement that as operators of their own municipal...
View ArticleLaura Washington: Hair shaming is a painful part of Black history
The video clip of the “straightening comb” brought it all back. The sharp, iron edge scraping into my soft scalp. The smell of burning hair, mixed with greasy pomade. Oh, the dreaded hot comb! The...
View ArticleWill Johnson: Chicago wants a moderate mayor. Instead, we have Brandon Johnson.
Throughout his term in office, Mayor Brandon Johnson pointedly has divided Chicago into two opposing blocs. One is his base of unionized government workers and community activists who share his...
View ArticleLetters: Gov. JB Pritzker accuses Donald Trump of being a king, but he has...
During his recent State of the State address, Gov. JB Pritzker pretentiously proclaimed, “We don’t have kings in America, and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one,” referring to President Donald...
View ArticleEditorial: What Jeff Bezos gets right about opinion sections. And what we...
In the light of Jeff Bezos’ announcement about changes in the opinion section of The Washington Post, the venerable newspaper he owns, we have some thoughts on the difference between having principles,...
View ArticleMarisa Novara: When it comes to affordable housing in Chicago, there is no...
There’s been a lot of ink spilled recently on the high cost of delivering affordable housing. At a time when the Institute for Housing Studies at DePaul University estimates that 120,000 more Chicago...
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