Rep. Maurice West and Arne Duncan: Illinois must invest in housing support...
It took six months for Maria Garza to finally feel home for good after leaving prison. Garza was released from the Illinois Department of Corrections in June 2021 and spent the next six months bouncing...
View ArticleDavid Greising: A better way to achieve ethics reform in Chicago
After city Inspector General Deborah Witzburg complained publicly last month about City Hall interference with her investigations, the city’s top lawyer countered with a rebuke. Corporation Counsel...
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Mike Woodruff: Famous atheist’s pivot doesn’t surprise me as a pastor
It wasn’t quite a “where were you when” moment, but almost. I’m talking about Richard Dawkins — the world’s most famous atheist — announcing that he’d become a “cultural Christian.” Initially I was...
View ArticleCarter Popkin: What’s at stake in the Fulbright funding crisis
I am one of thousands of Americans sitting in limbo while working abroad on a Fulbright grant. The recent funding freezes have left many of us stranded in foreign countries without funds or guidance...
View ArticleEditorial: Aldermen warn Mayor Johnson not to sideline them on his $175...
If he isn’t careful, Mayor Brandon Johnson is going to find himself in another political brawl with the City Council. The mayor’s team is preparing to plug a $175 million hole blown in their budget for...
View ArticleThe Tribune’s Quotes of the Week quiz for March 29
Welcome back, quotes readers! The week started off with the first major national security breach of the Trump administration. On Monday, The Atlantic reported that top national security officials —...
View ArticleLetters: Illinois can help support local farmers with the Good Food...
As a Black urban farmer in Chicago, I see firsthand how our food system is stacked against small, local farmers who are Black, Indigenous and people of color. Despite my farm growing fresh,...
View ArticleAziza Butler: More Black families are choosing to homeschool. A new bill...
As a former Chicago Public Schools teacher, a homeschooling mother and a community leader who engages daily with families from diverse educational backgrounds, I can confidently say that Illinois...
View ArticleEditorial: Rockford’s version of the Mag Mile is thriving. A TIF worked...
One of Illinois’ biggest little cities has a version of Chicago’s Magnificent Mile shopping hub, with a few notable differences. You won’t find standalone boutiques for Gucci, Rolex or Tiffany in...
View ArticleClarence Page: Signalgate reveals Donald Trump’s backward-looking military view
A hard-won Senate confirmation was not enough to keep the aroma of scandal away from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for long. As labels like “Signalgate” or, as I call it, “the Big Oops,” struggled...
View ArticleLetters: Defendant in Hadiya Pendleton killing deserves a fair trial
Regarding the article “‘An incredibly brazen act'” (March 12): To be sure, I believe anyone who cares about the value of human life should feel the same passion that Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen...
View ArticleEditorial: Springfield missed another opportunity to cut red tape and get...
Illinois gained over 32,000 nonfarm jobs on net since before the pandemic. But 73% of them were government jobs. Where the state could use some work is private-sector growth. Some of Illinois’ most...
View ArticleFaith leaders: Millions of Illinoisans with criminal records deserve a clean...
There is no doubt America is suffering from a coordinated, sustained and intentional attack on civil liberties and minority populations. As the faith community of St. Sabina demonstrated by hanging the...
View ArticleJohn T. Shaw: Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar exemplifies courage, candor and...
When Jim Edgar first ran for governor of Illinois, he faced a dilemma that has haunted and hounded politicians since the dawn of time. Should he do the easy but wrong thing or the hard but right thing?...
View ArticleEditorial: In Wisconsin, Elon Musk asks, ‘Who wants to be a millionaire?’
On Friday, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, speaking to students at Georgetown Law Center in Washington, said it was essential we “ensure that the courts are fearlessly independent.” Ya...
View ArticleLetters: We can afford to spread compassion across the world via agencies...
I sat one morning reading the op-ed “I worked for USAID for 16 years. I saw the profound difference it made.” (March 25). Author Gavi Rosenthal identifies the cruelty in canceling our nation’s...
View ArticleMichael Miklaucic: The West is losing the cognitive war with Russia and China
There is a new global war raging, and the West is losing. It is not the war in Ukraine, though that is the most visible front. It is the fierce but largely unrecognized global war in the cognitive...
View ArticlePolice district councilors: Enforcement of parking violations shouldn’t fall...
We often think of 911 as a number to call for violent crimes or emergencies that need an immediate response. But the Chicago Police Department receives about 100,000 911 calls each year for something...
View ArticleDaniel DePetris: Signalgate is distracting us from more serious issues in Yemen
It has been a rough week for national security adviser Mike Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the rest of the Trump administration’s national security team. The so-called Signalgate...
View ArticlePaul Vallas: The decline in Black teachers has nothing to do with CPS’...
The Chicago Teachers Union claims that Chicago Public Schools’ lack of Black teachers is, in part, the result of an evaluation system that discriminates against them — specifically singling out...
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