Letters: Once again, Ukraine is exposed to Russian repression
Ukrainians are a good-humored, industrious and resourceful people who finally achieved independence in 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, precipitated by the aggressive stance against...
View ArticleWillie Wilson: Gov. JB Pritzker’s budget address ignores the other Illinois
Last week, Gov. JB Pritzker delivered his annual State of the State and budget address. His speech was a mixture of platitudes, lauding of Illinois leaders’ stewardship, and a fiery rebuke of President...
View ArticleEditorial: From Dolton to Will County, municipal voters stood against drama...
In a time of intense polarization, voters in municipal elections that were held Tuesday around the Chicago area showed encouraging signs of exhaustion with politicians’ drama. On both the left and the...
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Ray LaHood and James Nowlan: Extreme gerrymandering is as bad as old...
Clever software, aided by hands-off decisions from the federal courts, has in recent years transformed decennial redistricting of legislative seats from a process of representing voters to that of...
View ArticleHeidi Stevens: Access is not a trophy the White House can hand out to its...
I arrived at college in 1992 with no idea what I wanted to do with my one precious life. I had always loved to write, and freshman English quickly became my favorite class. One day my professor pulled...
View ArticleEditorial: City workers are afterthoughts in Chicago’s bizarre game of...
The Municipal Employees‘ Annuity & Benefit Fund of Chicago is not a phrase that exactly trips off the tongue. But the pension plan covering the retirements of a hodgepodge of workers with the city...
View ArticleLaurence Bolotin: The world has been horribly silent on the deaths of Ariel...
Two small coffins return home, carrying the bodies of Israeli children who had barely begun to live. The world watches, some in agony, many in silence. Their deaths — part of a larger, unrelenting...
View ArticleEditorial: Aldermen backed Mayor Johnson’s irresponsible bonds. Investors may...
Mayor Brandon Johnson struggled mightily to win approval Wednesday from the City Council to float $830 million in bonds to finance infrastructure work around the city. But win he did after having to...
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Letters: Think of the many ways federal workers serve us
Federal employees are being harassed, disparaged and fired. These aren’t lazy bureaucrats sitting in Washington, D.C., abusing your tax dollars; these are hardworking, honest people in your...
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David Greising: CTU President Stacy Davis Gates is a lot like Elon Musk
The public is rightly up in arms over the vast power an unelected, unaccountable person is exerting over the chief executive of their government. Citizens are demanding to know how this interloper...
View ArticleACLU officials: Why do trans children in sports warrant an executive order...
President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order to address the transgender athletes participating in high school sports. Trump’s order threatened the loss of federal funding if public...
View ArticleThe Tribune’s Quotes of the Week quiz for March 1
Happy March, quotes readers! It was a busy news week, so let’s get right into it. More tariffs are coming. President Donald Trump announced plans to impose tariffs on Canada and Mexico and double...
View ArticleLetters: How can we better help those with a mental illness who face...
With the United States leading the democratic world in incarceration rates, it seems that our country’s criminal justice system has become a revolving door for individuals experiencing mental illness....
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Editorial: JB Pritzker’s 1871 is exiting the Merchandise Mart. What does that...
The news that 1871, Chicago’s best known technology incubator, is leaving its longtime home at the Merchandise Mart seems at first blush like a warning sign — yet another indicator of the city’s...
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Arthur Milnes: A Chicago congressman wanted to annex Canada long before...
Long before Donald Trump came along with his vision of making Canada the 51st state, there was, of course, Chicago’s Timothy P. Sheehan. A Cook County Republican, Sheehan served an unremarkable four...
View ArticleLetters: Yes, it is time to rethink our approach to affordable housing to...
Thank you for the editorial on the challenges of our current homeless service system and the call from the Tribune Editorial Board to rethink what we do (“Frigid temperatures highlight harshness of...
View ArticleClarence Page: Don’t let ‘reverse discrimination’ reverse our national progress
Marlean Ames of Akron, Ohio, is not gay or a member of a racial minority. But, please, she points out, don’t hold that against her, as she alleges her employers have, as she takes her “reverse...
View ArticleEditorial: Accusations mustn’t undermine aviation industry’s strong record of...
To Chicago frequent flyers, Tuesday’s video was disturbing indeed. A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 jet roaring in to land at Midway Airport on the short Runway 31C and then, at the very last moment,...
View ArticleFaith leaders: A text chain offers hope during these troubling times
“Thank God there are a few courageous folks left.” Soon after, there was another text: “This is a reality and extremely scary. Either we rise up strong and fight back or become irrelevant.” The text...
View ArticleEditorial: Another layer of bureaucracy isn’t the answer for beleaguered...
In Gov. JB Pritzker’s Illinois budget address on Feb. 19, he lamented the decline of small-town independent pharmacies like those of Michelle Dyer, who abruptly closed three stores in rural Macoupin...
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