Daquan Ford: We youths need Chicago leaders to engage, listen and act
As the city and civic leaders are figuring out how to respond to teen trends and debate over curfews, the bigger issue has been ignored — a mental health crisis affecting Chicago’s youths. The...
View ArticleElizabeth Shackelford: America’s president is for sale
The federal government has strict rules for employees accepting gifts from outside interests, such as companies that do business with the U.S. government or foreign individuals or states that might...
View ArticleEditorial: Brandon Johnson slams migrant busing, then celebrates the results....
Not long ago, when busloads of migrants were arriving in Chicago from Texas, Mayor Brandon Johnson denounced the move as “evil.” Fast forward to 2025, and Johnson is now touting population growth as a...
View ArticleLetters: Empathy has been abandoned as Medicaid faces deep cuts to fund tax...
Elon Musk famously stated that “the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.” That shocked many of us, who value empathy as a virtue, a requirement of a good life, as taught in...
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Megan Ross: Changes to the Endangered Species Act clear a path for species to...
American bald eagles need towering trees to raise young. Blanding’s turtles thrive in undisturbed freshwater habitats. Presidio manzanita, an evergreen shrub, requires unusual serpentine soils to...
View ArticleYolanda Androzzo and Paul Nestadt: Safe storage of firearms would save...
There’s a quiet moment — a pause — that can mean the difference between life and death. We have watched too many families suffer devastating losses; we’ve learned how powerful that pause can be. It’s...
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Ann Muno: What Netflix’s ‘Adolescence’ misses about girl-centered violence...
In 1976, my 16-year-old sister Kim was murdered by a male classmate who asked for a ride after her shift at the mall. I was only 10. The Tribune’s headline read simply, “Teen held in girl’s murder.”...
View ArticleHeidi Stevens: Instead of a wedding registry, they asked for children’s...
This is a love story about a couple who found each other a little later in life, after their kids were grown, after their first marriages ended, after life threw a few unexpected twists their way. But...
View ArticleEditorial: Republican tax bill is filled with illogicalities, craven giveaways
Few tax matters have as many enemies as the so-called SALT deduction, the ability to deduct from your federal income taxes the taxes you’ve already paid to state and local authorities. On the left, the...
View ArticleLetters: Improve access to the Chicago Riverwalk with an elevator
The Chicago Riverwalk is a jewel in Chicago’s crown. From Lake Michigan to the end of the main branch of the Chicago River, this urban delight has been used and admired by visitors and Chicagoans...
View ArticleThe Tribune’s Quotes of the Week quiz for May 17
What went on this week? We’ve got you covered with local news, national headlines and more. Let’s jump in: President Donald Trump backed off of his steepest tariffs this week, as the United States and...
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Edward Keegan: Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home an example of the ordinary...
The elevation of Chicago-born Robert Francis Prevost to Pope Leo XIV earlier this month remains a shock. That’s because the papacy is something so extraordinary that almost none of it fits neatly with...
View ArticleLetters: Silencing NOAA’s climate change tracking only hurts us and our planet
Thanks for the article “Data under freeze warning” (in print May 10). The article describes how the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will no longer track the cost of weather...
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Michael Peregrine: Chicago helped give rise to Abraham Lincoln’s presidency...
The intersection of Lake Street and Wacker Drive is well known for several reasons. For the confluence of the Chicago River branches. For the hazards of the tricky pedestrian crossings. For the cold...
View ArticleClarence Page: Donald Trump embraces South Africans — the white ones
President Donald Trump’s refugee policy reminds me of what automaker Henry Ford supposedly said about his company’s Model T: “A customer can have a car painted any color he wants as long as it’s...
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Editorial: It’s not the messaging, Mr. Mayor. Your policies and governance...
We’re halfway through Mayor Brandon Johnson’s term, and the city the mayor described in a series of recent interviews to mark the milestone hardly resembles what we see. We agree with the mayor that...
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Editorial: House Speaker Chris Welch went too far. Rep. Fred Crespo is good...
Springfield is confronting a $500 million-plus deficit, and Gov. JB Pritzker, the state’s top Democrat, has pledged to balance the budget without raising taxes. So what is House Speaker Emanuel “Chris”...
View ArticleEditorial: The day Chicago got a dusty taste of ‘The Grapes of Wrath’
“A gentle wind followed the rain clouds, driving them on northward, a wind that softly clashed the drying corn,” wrote John Steinbeck in Chapter 1 of “The Grapes of Wrath,” his Pulitzer Prize-winning...
View ArticleLetters: The opposition to Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown was quiet...
America is at a crossroads. President Donald Trump’s administration is facing a wave of lawsuits and court injunctions in its efforts to solve major national problems. Chief among them is addressing...
View ArticleAbraham Scarr: Illinois lawmakers can cut red tape and make going solar more...
“We haven’t paid for electricity in years,” said Andrew Hoffman, a retired psychologist who lives in Morton Grove, a suburb just outside Chicago. Hoffman installed his first rooftop solar panels...
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