Paul Vallas: Catholic schools are not a threat to public schools
It’s no coincidence that the golden era for public education in Chicago coincided with the...
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Erendira Rendon: My immigrant family and I became Bears fans this season. The joy was beautiful.
It has been beautiful to see my city and Mexican immigrant family embrace the Bears.
Edward Keegan: Will a new Chicago Bears stadium benefit northwest Indiana?
None of the sites proposed for the Bears create connections between Gary and the city’s...
Robert Pape: Why Tucker Carlson’s civil war narrative is dangerous for America
Tucker Carlson's narrative about chaos in Minneapolis assumes that resistance morally and politically justifies federal...
Public policy experts: The hidden inequity in school funding? Illinois’ teacher pension funding structure
Illinois will never truly achieve equitable school funding unless it fixes teacher pension funding.
Shlomo Soroka: Gov. JB Pritzker shouldn’t let politics block free help for Illinois students
The scholarship program is funded entirely through a federal tax credit. The cost is carried...
Elizabeth Shackelford: What history tells us about fighting the repression we are seeing here
Past movements against repressive regimes were met with violence and repression, but gradually concessions were...
Theodore J. Karamanski: Lake Michigan is under threat. The dangers are out of sight.
Today, Lake Michigan is not sending up a warning flag. The threats to our waters...
Brad Weisenstein: Let us celebrate our 250th Independence Day by ending Illinois’ fireworks ban
The Illinois General Assembly can end the fireworks ban well before we celebrate our nation’s...
University researchers: Is immigration driving crime in Chicago? Here’s what the data shows.
In our new study, we examine fatal and nonfatal shootings across 77 Chicago neighborhoods from...