Opinion

It’s a long-standing Chicago tradition that the Chicago Teachers Union president, in the heat of contract negotiations, begins demonizing Chicago’s mayor. Karen Lewis so befuddled Mayor Rahm Emanuel — to […]

Now as then, it makes sense to look with caution on the calm before the convention. Then was early August 1968. Now is just a few days before the opening […]

Chicago Public Schools has a new “balanced” budget for the coming year. Of course, the $9.9 billion CPS budget can be considered balanced only through willful disregard for gaping holes that still […]

Within a few years Chicago’s Board of Education will be fully elected. For now, though, Mayor Brandon Johnson appoints the city’s school board, which in theory should mean he is […]

The Chicago Police Department has a problem with racist, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim and anti-democratic police officers on the force. The Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Three Percenters and other extremist groups are […]

The lengthy and intense City Council debate this week over the future of ShotSpotter, the heavily hyped and deeply flawed policing technology, came at a fitting time: just before Memorial Day […]

The Chicago Bears’ epically inept unveiling of plans for a new indoor stadium to replace Soldier Field will go down in Chicago lore as one of the loudest backfires in […]

In the debate over how to fix Illinois’ worst-in-the-nation pension problem, the people who argue that retirement pay and benefits need to be protected at all costs have always held […]

ShotSpotter is the technology that just won’t go away. At least not yet. Mayor Brandon Johnson intended to allow the city’s contract with the gunshot-tracking system to expire last month, […]

Perhaps the most lasting and important part of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s financial plan for Illinois was not even included in his budget address last week. For far too long, Illinois has […]