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Passengers walk through the entrance of a TSA PreCheck in Terminal 1 at O'Hare International Airport in 2017.

Op-ed: My research helped create the TSA PreCheck: How airport security changed and how it must change again over the next 10 years

September 7, 2021 at 5:23 p.m.

Twenty years ago this week, airplanes were used as weapons to topple the twin towers and inflict damage on the Pentagon. It marked the beginning of a new era for...

The Illinois Senate meets before the inauguration of a new term on Jan. 13, 2021, in Springfield.

Op-ed: What’s an ideal fix for Illinois gerrymandering? An algorithmic approach

April 22, 2021 at 5:30 p.m.

Illinois' neighboring states all have Republican-controlled Houses and Senates. This state's Democrat-controlled General Assembly is a Midwest anomaly. Given that we are now in the midst of redistricting season, which...

A staff member at a COVID-19 testing site at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Sept. 4, 2020.

Commentary: Rural Illinois must embrace CDC guidelines and more testing for COVID-19

September 22, 2020 at 3:36 p.m.

This spring, Chicago was one of the nation's COVID-19 epicenters. Illinois' rural communities were largely spared any COVID-19 carnage, anxiously waiting for the impending surge of cases and deaths that...

Justin Reyes administers a COVID-19 test to Maria Suarez outside Heartland Health Centers in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood on July 10, 2020.

Commentary: We need custom COVID-19 plans for the four distinct regions of Illinois

May 4, 2020 at 5:01 p.m.

Epidemiological data suggests that COVID-19 cases must drop for 14 days before a state should consider opening nonessential businesses. Yet numerous states have begun opening anyway, well before they've achieved...

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