Charles Berg: Chicago undermines its own urban identity
One recent night, I was feeling hopeful, not hungry, so I walked to the Time Out Market on West Fulton Market. The weather was excellent, and I wanted to be around people. People are the source of joy...
View ArticleEditorial: Here comes the latest cash grab — congestion pricing
Virtually every novel revenue-raising idea floated by Mayor Brandon Johnson and fellow progressives on the City Council has been shot down since he took office, either by Springfield or Chicago voters....
View ArticleEditorial: Hey, United Airlines, no targeted ads at 30,000 feet, please
Over the past few years, American Airlines steadily removed seat-back screens from almost all of its domestic fleet. The airline’s rationale was that people now bring their own screens wherever they...
View ArticleEditorial: An early summer weekend of gun deaths in Chicago shows how far we...
As Chicago headed back to work this week, the city was coming off one of the most beautiful weather weekends in recent memory, characterized by temperatures in the mid-70s and refreshing breezes. But...
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Letters: The Illinois Eats program holds promise for farmers and communities...
I am writing in response to the recent editorial (“A Pritzker program to boost disadvantaged farmers has left them holding the bag,” June 7) on the Illinois Eats program, or IL-EATS. My wife and I, as...
View ArticleDaniel DePetris: Should the US increase its nuclear arsenal?
Is it time for the United States to increase its nuclear weapons stockpile? To arms control advocates, this is a dastardly, irresponsible question. But it isn’t coming out of nowhere: Last week, a...
View ArticleSarah Garza Resnick and Allison Cowett: Aldermen must establish a quiet zone...
Every Saturday, without exception, the patients and clinic staff members at Family Planning Associates in downtown Chicago are met with a wall of noise and vitriol when they enter the facility. Large...
View ArticleLetters: Mayor Brandon Johnson needs to refocus his agenda on sympathizing...
So, in response to an alderman’s call for a curfew for minors after the recent vicious assault of a couple in Streeterville, Mayor Brandon Johnson said, “Helping young people find their purpose is the...
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Brandon Johnson: My brother Leon would have lived longer if he had received...
When I think about the mental health crisis in Chicago, I think of my brother Leon. He was a loving husband and father and a brilliant musician, but he struggled mightily with mental illness for much...
View ArticleLeonard C. Goodman: An important case threatening First Amendment rights is...
An important case threatening the First Amendment right of all Americans to criticize their government will go to trial this September in a federal courtroom in Tampa, Florida, with barely any...
View ArticleEditorial: Three years after brazen killing of a National Guard member on...
Two reputed leaders of the Milwaukee Kings street gang were indicted last month on charges of shooting and killing 19-year-old National Guard member Chrys Carvajal in Belmont Cragin on July 3, 2021....
View ArticleClarence Page: Talk of mandated national service percolates among former...
Don’t get nervous, young folks, but talk about a national service mandate has been bubbling up again in Washington. Such talk has been particularly vigorous among key advisers to Donald Trump as he...
View ArticleLetters: Police officers face risks every day, especially during traffic stops
Regarding the Tribune article “Bias found in Chicago traffic stops” (June 10): I served as a lieutenant in the Austin police district from June 1998 to July 2007. I conducted several hundred traffic...
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Willie Wilson: Lessons from my father on love
As the son of a sharecropper growing up in Gilbert, Louisiana, I learned very important life lessons from my mother and father that shaped me into the man I am today. With the celebration of Father’s...
View ArticleAl Llorens: Illinois just took a vital step forward for safer schools
As the president of the Illinois Education Association, I am acutely aware of the challenges our educators face daily, including the growing teacher and paraprofessional shortages. The General...
View ArticleEditorial: Judge rightly halts state Democrats’ cynical bid to cement...
For Democrats in Illinois, the overwhelming political power they enjoy never seems to be enough. A judge on June 5 invalidated a hastily enacted state law pushed through on a partisan vote that would...
View ArticlePaul Vallas: CTU’s contract demands are divorced from reality. Here’s what...
Ever since the Chicago Teachers Union contract demands were leaked, there’s been much talk about how divorced the proposal is from reality. That’s the point. These outlandish demands — from the 9%...
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Editorial: Riot Fest’s exit to the suburbs is a blow to the West Side. It was...
Riot Fest is an annual rock music event in Chicago that in most years garners headlines on which acts — often veteran artists who don’t tour all that often — will top the lineup. For the record, this...
View ArticleLetters: Don’t scar our lakefront with a new Bears stadium
The Chicago Bears may need a new stadium, and as David Greising writes in his recent column (“With Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce support, is there hope for Bears stadium plan?” June 7), there may be...
View ArticleHeidi Stevens: A reminder to give our kids the space to dream big about their...
When I was 20 years old, the summer after my junior year of college, I interned in Washington, D.C., at The Student Press Law Center, a nonprofit that works to protect press freedom for high school and...
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