David Greising

Amazon is on a building boom in the area. It has around 10 fulfillment centers in northeastern Illinois. But the e-commerce giant is making its new investment — and likely planning more — without so much as a public hint that it needs an extra airport in Peotone.

The mayor is seeking systemic approaches to address the violence and poverty that plague the city. It’s the right way to frame the problem. It also reveals the difficulty of the task she faces: Systemic change will be difficult, and cost a lot.

The call has gone out all across the land: “Defund the police.” It’s a popular slogan, even if the details are far from clear.

This year, perhaps the worst bad idea was a proposal to suspend the Freedom of Information Act and block access to public records during the height of the COVID-19 crisis.

COVID-19 is all too real. Each day brings a new revelation about its ability to avoid detection, its easy travel from carrier to victim, the way it teases the stricken with a brief bout of apparent recovery — before it goes in for the kill.

It’s time to start drawing up plans to broadly expand mail-in voting across Illinois.

The “no meetings” option is what the Illinois legislature has embraced so far. It’s a high-risk, high-cost choice that abdicates the General Assembly’s obligation to do the people’s business.

The Crawford dust cloud is no less disastrous just because COVID-19 is upon us. And the people in Little Village, and across the city, have an urgent right to know who protected them, who did not and whom to hold accountable for what went wrong.

The data is murky enough, and the course of the disease so unknowable, that no one quite yet knows what exactly we’re looking at.

As Pritzker reworks his budget, the state has precious little flexibility. With $7.4 billion in unpaid bills, a credit rating that’s just one notch above junk and a pension system that eats up more than 20% of the state’s operating budget, it faces a trifecta of trouble.