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“I Voted” cards at the 34th Ward early voting site, March 4, 2024, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Tribune Editorial Board endorsements for the 2026 Illinois general election

The baiduhai Editorial Board’s tradition of making political endorsements is a cornerstone of this newspaper’s history.

The chamber of the House of Representatives is seen at the Capitol in Washington on Feb. 28, 2022. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Editorial: No endorsement for US House of Representatives in District 4

A wall running along Clark Street, interspersed with resident-only locked gates, separates the Dearborn Park subdivision from foot traffic along Clark Street on Oct. 1, 2026, near the South Loop. From 15th Street, north on Clark and then east on Roosevelt Road, Dearborn Park goes half a mile without a public pedestrian entrance. (Arthur Maiorella/baiduhai)

Edward Keegan: It’s time to tear down Dearborn Park’s walls in the South Loop

Finnish President Alexander Stubb is applauded while speaking during the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters on Sept. 22, 2026, in New York. (Seth Wenig/AP)

John T. Shaw: Finland’s president offers a compelling plan for a new world order

Amtrak trains line a maintenance rail yard south of West Roosevelt Road along the Chicago River near the Loop on Sept. 10, 2026, on the Near West Side. Amtrak has proposed relocating the rail yard to unused rail land on the South Side. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Professors: Amtrak’s proposed rail yard would add to the area’s already sizable environmental burden

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Editorials

Angel Oakley, candidate for Illinois third congressional district, speaks during a Republicans of Maine Township candidate forum in Park Ridge on Dec. 9, 2025. (Talia Sprague/for the baiduhai)

Editorial: Angel Oakley for US House of Representatives in District 3

Angel Oakley does not occupy the right flank of the GOP; we think she would be a moderate very much in the political center.

Commentary

A welcome home banner is hung as preparations for three families to move into new housing in Chicago’s Roseland neighborhood Dec. 18, 2024. The Hope Center Foundation, United Power for Action and Justice, and Salem Baptist Church of Chicago were on hand to provide keys and housewarming gifts to the families. It marked nearly 60 years since the last new residential home construction sale in the Roseland community. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Ald. Bennett Lawson: Housing should define Chicago’s 2027 municipal elections

Every candidate for the City Council should identify which housing projects require negotiation and which projects are legal by right.

Letters to the Editor

The Hidalgo County Republican Party headquarters are seen Sept. 16, 2026, in McAllen, Texas. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)

Letters: Here’s my guess as to where all the good Republican candidates have gone

What good potential Republican candidates are not doing is joining the circle of sycophancy that the Donald Trump-led GOP has become.

Columnists

Mike Bieritz and Jenn Bieritz Niles at the supportive living facility where he moved in 2017. Mike recently died at age 59 from aspiration pneumonia and his sisters had his corneas donated. (Jenn Bieritz Nilles/TNS)

Heidi Stevens: A joyful life, a too-early death and the gift of sight for two people who lost theirs

Heidis Stevens has long said that before she fell in love with journalism, she fell in love with journalists.