Opinion

Details must be examined before this deal moves ahead. What little we now know gives the hint of a sweet deal for Musk.

Chicago’s tough-talking mayor is known for charging headfirst into politics in his 20s, but teaching preschoolers? We weren’t familiar with that one.

Bruce Rauner made only two demands of lawmakers as they prepared a fiscal 2019 budget, and on both scores, the governor can only kind of, sort of declare victory.

Blago knows things are different with Trump in the White House, and he is seeking to paint himself as just another pol who was playing by the wretched but legal rules of pay-as-you-go politics.

Judge Vincent Gaughan should not issue a gag order in the Laquan McDonald shooting case.

What happened this session on gerrymandering—what didn’t happen, actually—is a defeat. But it need not be the final word. Factors favoring reform are building. Eventually, they’ll break through.

A solution to the state’s chronic budget problems languishes while Democrats and Republicans get caught up in petty political infighting.

The formal name of one Chicago-based labor group is a mouth full: Liquor & Wine Sales Representatives – Tire, Plastic, and Allied Workers Union Local 3.

Cook County, where I live, has 530 governmental units, more than any other U.S. county. Sangamon has 118.