Will Johnson: Big loser in city budget battle is Mayor Brandon Johnson
Three quarters of respondents to a new poll say they’ll hold the Chicago mayor responsible...
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Michael Peregrine: Gale Sayers and the greatest performance in Chicago sports history
Dec. 12, 1965, was a day when everything went right for the Bears rookie running...
Jacob Lane: Dick Van Dyke has offered 100 years of American joy, from Danville to Hollywood
Dick Van Dyke, the happiest export Danville, Illinois, ever had, turns 100 on Saturday.
Daniel DePetris: The good and the bad in Donald Trump’s national security strategy
The White House preaches the value of noninterventionism, but this is hard to square with...
Civic leaders: Our poll finds Chicagoans prefer a garbage fee increase to the mayor’s head tax
A new poll shows that voters reject the head tax proposal and that if Chicago...
Arthur Haynes and Benjamin Ruddell: Chicago must proceed cautiously on expanding police power to file gun charges
A new policy that allows Chicago police to directly file certain felony gun charges could...
Edward Keegan: Frank Gehry’s generous and democratic architecture
While his forms could seem casual and arbitrary, Frank Gehry was an amazing planner who...
Arne Duncan: Community violence intervention is working in Chicago
Chicago neighborhoods where community violence intervention is most active have some of the largest declines...
Jim Nowlan: Illinois educators are applauding weak school achievement
Illinois is just above the middle of the pack against national averages for achievement. But...
Cate Plys: How Mayor Brandon Johnson can help the budget and make the city’s trash fee more equitable
Chicago should institute a graduated garbage fee by tying it to a property’s assessed valuation.