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Chicago Park District Superintendent and CEO Michael Kelly after holding a news conference to announce disciplinary action taken against employees in the beaches and pools unit, and additional measures to protect the workforce within the unit, at South Shore Beach House on Aug. 16, 2021.

Op-ed: The Chicago Park District lifeguard scandal. A slow-motion disaster.

September 16, 2021 at 4:13 p.m.

The charges of sexual harassment of lifeguards and other aquatics employees at the Chicago Park District, and signs of serious government mishandling of the matter, have unspooled like a slow-motion...

baiduhai reporter Bill Recktenwald in the Tribune Tower newsroom in the 1970s.

Column: While mourning the loss of muckraker Bill Recktenwald, here’s some good news for the future of newsrooms

September 2, 2021 at 3:59 p.m.

In the heyday of undercover reporting in Chicago, Bill Recktenwald was a master of disguise. For a probe of election fraud in the late 1960s, he went undercover as an...

Chicago police investigate a shooting that killed two men in the 5000 block of West St. Paul Avenue in the North Austin neighborhood on Aug. 16, 2021.

Op-ed: The ‘whole-of-government’ tack for the pandemic found success. Will it work against Chicago violence?

August 24, 2021 at 12:45 p.m.

Science is the secret to fighting public health emergencies. The COVID-19 pandemic has taught this lesson. And the theory behind Mayor Lori Lightfoot's push to stop the surge of violence...

Firefighters at the scene of the blaze in a courtyard apartment building.

Op-ed: Since 2014, at least 61 people died in buildings with fire safety dangers known to city officials. Why hasn’t Chicago done more about this?

August 9, 2021 at 12:39 p.m.

From Memorial Day through Labor Day, Chicago's summers mark the time when homicides annually reach their bloody peak. Winter marks a killing season of a different sort. Just as hot...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker greets lawmakers as he arrives to deliver a budget address at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield in early 2020.

Column: A ‘paper tiger’ legislative watchdog isn’t good enough

July 22, 2021 at 2:21 p.m.

Rarely does Chicago get cited as an example of best practices. When the chance arises, it's best not to miss it. So here goes: The city of Chicago may have...

Ald. Carrie Austin, during a City Council meeting Dec. 18, 2019. Austin has been charged with public corruption.

Column: The unjust, opaque exercise of aldermanic privilege. It needs to go.

July 8, 2021 at 12:02 p.m.

In the last week of June, Mayor Lori Lightfoot suffered her first loss of a City Council vote. By a one-vote margin, the council rejected Lightfoot's effort to further diminish...

Copies of the Tribune on a conveyor after being printed at the Freedom Center on March 30, 2021.

Op-ed: The vital nature of a well-turned column. Good for the reader, for society

June 24, 2021 at 1:58 p.m.

I don't know about you, but the string of farewell columns this month has exhausted me. Familiar voices are suddenly quiet, and they'll be missed. A good opinion column is...

The Prairie State Generating Station coal plant near Marissa.

Column: The tangled and uncertain future of Prairie State Energy Campus

June 10, 2021 at 1:13 p.m.

Sometimes a bad deal is just a bad deal. And it's not Springfield's job to try to make it right. In fact, it would be a mistake to even try....

Column: Illinois’ legislative session of missed chances — and one bright spot

May 27, 2021 at 1:10 p.m.

Illinois at times can seem a state that never misses a chance to miss a chance. Earlier this year, there still seemed a possible chance for meaningful ethics reform. There...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker during a news conference at South Elgin High School on March 31, 2021, announcing Illinois school districts will receive $7 billion in federal funding to support students as they return to the classroom after distance and hybrid learning due to COVID-19.

Column: Illinois is still shortchanging people with disabilities, despite consent decree

May 13, 2021 at 3:54 p.m.

Parents of children with disabilities learn to dread the day the bus stops coming. Beginning at age 22, when people with disabilities "age out" of public school — literally dismissed...

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