Letters: I don’t need religion. I have the Golden Rule.
Regarding the op-ed “Famous atheist’s pivot doesn’t surprise me as a pastor” (March 29): Wow! This pastor must live in a compartmentalized little world. I stopped fantasizing about my “invisible...
View ArticleJoe Ferguson and David Greising: It’s time to slash the number of Illinois...
Illinois has 8,923 local governments — more than any other state. Texas, which has more than double Illinois’ 12.7 million residents and nearly five times Illinois’ land mass, is next-highest, with...
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Clarence Page: In Wisconsin, Elon Musk turned fame and wealth into votes but...
Lately, Elon Musk has been looking like a good candidate for Washington’s unofficial “So Sorry to See You Go” award. We used to hand it out annually on the public affairs show “The McLaughlin Group,”...
View ArticleLetters: The consequences of children falling behind in reading are profound
The well-timed editorial “On childhood literacy, Illinois could learn from the Bayou State” (March 26) is something every teacher, principal and school superintendent should read. I’m the founder of a...
View ArticleEditorial: Chicago has struggled to regain international tourism. Now that’s...
Choose Chicago finally has a new head honcho in Kristen Reynolds, formerly the CEO of the tourism agency Discover Long Island. Reynolds will have her work cut out for her and not just because marketing...
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Edward Keegan: Wrigley Field is losing some of its magic with demolished...
Wrigley Field has always been about a lot more than just Wrigley Field. An essential part of its magic has been the residential structures along Waveland and Sheffield avenues that have provided a...
View ArticleEditorial: An uproar in Hyde Park and Kenwood over an old hotel turned into a...
Homelessness in Chicago is a crisis. More housing is needed, and fast, which this page has addressed more than once. But there are few easy answers to the problem in the short run. On the border of...
View ArticleEditorial: When lawyers apply a law aimed at VHS rentals to the streaming...
In the 1980s, when the late Judge Robert Bork faced Senate scrutiny over his ill-fated nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, a small independent newspaper published a list of his rentals at a local...
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Letters: President Donald Trump’s tariffs are confronting our federal deficit...
While I am no fan of President Donald Trump, I nonetheless feel his government downsizing and tariffs are a very serious attempt to address two very serious problems our nation is facing. Look no...
View ArticleBrad Weisenstein: Illinois might help take away parents’ car keys
“Mom, it’s not just about you. You could hurt somebody. You could hurt a child.” That last part got to the woman who had spent her life educating youngsters. But it was a conversation and an action...
View ArticleJohn Austin: ‘America First’ means an America diminished
The United States, as a strong and growing young country, broke out of its isolationist tendencies in the First World War, coming to the aid of allies in Europe and providing the push that ended its...
View ArticleEditorial: Suburban speed cameras? Don’t replicate Chicago’s mistakes.
Want speed cameras proliferating on your suburban roads? Chicago-style speed cameras could be coming to a suburb near you thanks to a bill that’s still alive ahead of the April 11 third-reading...
View ArticleEditorial: Illinois taxpayers deserve more than excuses for the $250M...
In 2015, the Cook County Circuit Court and the Illinois Supreme Court inked distinct deals with a Texas-based tech firm to overhaul their computer systems. A decade later, project costs — which were...
View ArticleLetters: If the state would fund its mandates, the RTA wouldn’t be faced with...
The day the Tribune front-page story exclaimed, “RTA warns of ‘doomsday’ transit cuts if budget gap isn’t plugged” (March 21), the editorial inside railed against state unfunded mandates (“Our views on...
View ArticleDaniel DePetris: Vladimir Putin obstructs President Donald Trump’s best-laid...
At what point in a negotiation do you conclude that the other side is deliberating stalling? In business, the answer to this question is the definition of whether a sale goes through or dies on the...
View ArticleRep. Chris Miller: Gov. JB Pritzker’s policies are responsible for high rent...
If the residents of the Land of Lincoln have become accustomed to anything, it is their political leaders consistently pushing for more government interference, even when governmental policies have...
View ArticleBob Kustra: A shiny floor gives away corruption in Illinois
The Tribune’s timely series on Illinois’ “Culture of Corruption” reminded me of my first brush with Illinois’ political culture. In 1968, fresh out of graduate school, I was hired by the Republican...
View ArticleEditorial: Here comes an earnings season for tariff-scarred CEOs to dread
Beginning this week, America’s corporate bosses will have to publicly address how to gauge and respond to President Donald Trump’s chaos-inducing attempt to massively reorder the global economy. Talk...
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Editorial: Between a Hard Rock and a Rainforest Cafe, River North’s twin...
Back in the 1990s, Mayor Richard M. Daley would ride around town looking for vacant lots and insisting weeds be pulled and wrought-iron fences installed. One can only imagine what Daley would have...
View ArticleEditorial: Eileen O’Neill Burke puts judges on the spot to keep Cook County...
When state lawmakers made Illinois the first state in the nation to end cash bail, they ramped up the pressure considerably on judges to protect the public from violent offenders when they’re charged...
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