Clarence Page: AI bots are busting loose. Have we seen this movie before?
Do we get a choice in this AI future? That's the question at the heart...
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School board member: Good governance lost with passage of CPS budget. Students may pay the price
Advocacy is not budgeting. Advocacy asks what should happen. Budgeting requires us to act responsibly...
Jeanne Theoharis and Erik Wallenberg: The unknown history of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Chicago housing movement
Chicago’s movement too often appears as a failure, but Black residents organized to expose the...
Charlie Beck, Jens Ludwig and Chico Tillmon: Four ideas that could cut Chicago’s shootings in half
Chicago's next mayor must get the gears of government better aligned with what the gun...
Michael Peregrine: Chicago’s rock ’n’ roll summer of 1966 was culturally transcendent
In 1966, Chicago became the epicenter of a world that was transitioning from the Wall...
Louis Martinez: Geofence warrants that give police access to location data need firm guardrails
When investigators obtain location data from your device, they don't just learn where you were...
Joe Tabor: Rep. Carol Ammons indictment exposes Illinois’ ethics failures
Every corruption scandal in Illinois seems to end the same way: promises of ethics reform...
Doctors: Wildfire smoke will return. Illinois needs a better plan for its kids.
With no statewide standard in Illinois for children's outdoor activity in poor air quality, program...
Willie Wilson: Poor leadership has allowed food deserts. Urban agriculture can provide quick relief.
While infrastructure like grocery stores takes time, Chicago has the ability to scale and respond...
Liz Shulman: Why are we still pretending Big Tech cares about our classrooms?
All kids deserve protection in school. Instead, AI companies are equipping classrooms with surveillance tech...