David Greising

Minority Leader Jim Durkin’s push to have the House investigate Speaker Michael Madigan’s alleged misdeeds prompted Gov. J.B. Pritzker to call on Madigan to testify to the committee. The big question: what happens next?

We’ve always known what can go wrong will go wrong. However, nobody ever told us it would all go wrong at the same time.

Real reform can be done, however, politicians in Illinois have made an art of keeping meaningful reform impossibly out of reach.

Apparently, the year 2021 appears to be a pick-your-poison budget for Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot staged a news conference recently in the ongoing effort to get control of the city’s streets.

Staring into a fiscal abyss can cause strange plans to enter the minds of even responsible public officials. We’ve seen how badly this can go in Chicago.

The Illinois House Speaker has not been charged with a crime, and if that ever were to happen, he would be entitled to a presumption of innocence. The court of public opinion is a different story.

The government-for-sale system needs to come to an end. But let’s reserve some outrage — and demand for reform — for the complicity and corrupt behavior of ComEd, the state’s largest utility.

The Rockford area and the southern suburbs have deep needs for equity-focused investment. Here’s an airport plan that can work for both.

Yet, while it may seem odd to use the case of a governor who lost his job as an example, there are lessons to take from the Ogilvie experience.