Editorial: At Christmas, a Chicago mayor alone By The Editorial Board December 24, 2024 at 12:54 p.m. The message of Christmas is of reconciliation. This should not be lost on Mayor Brandon...
Editorial: After Brandon Johnson’s shameful Friday school board travesty, Gov. JB Pritzker has to get involved By The Editorial Board December 23, 2024 at 5:00 a.m. Gov. JB Pritzker must get more involved after Mayor Brandon Johnson has put Chicago's public...
Editorial: Tax reform, deficit reduction and a functional IRS all go hand in hand By The Editorial Board December 23, 2024 at 7:50 a.m. President-elect Trump's plans for tax reform will need a high-functioning IRS to work.
Editorial: Bring home Austin Tice, a journalist long imprisoned in Syria By The Editorial Board December 20, 2024 at 5:11 p.m. U.S. efforts to bring home Austin Tice, imprisoned in Syria, are intensifying. Good.
Editorial: This outrageous holiday-season vote to oust Pedro Martinez as Chicago schools chief must not happen By The Editorial Board December 19, 2024 at 4:13 p.m. Jamming through CTU's financially ruinous contract before Chicago's partially elected school board is seated is...
Editorial: Cook County faces a moment of truth on electronic monitoring of criminal defendants By The Editorial Board December 19, 2024 at 5:00 a.m. What now that Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart's office soon will stop enforcing home confinement...
Editorial: You won, Mr. Trump. There’s no call for litigation against the Des Moines Register. By The Editorial Board December 19, 2024 at 5:00 a.m. The Des Moines Register's wildly inaccurate Iowa poll days before the national election is cause...
Editorial: Downtown Chicago paid too high a price for slowpoke, ill-conceived Kennedy Expressway construction By The Editorial Board December 18, 2024 at 10:51 a.m. The endless Kennedy Expressway reconstruction project has spoiled the holiday season for a city in...
Editorial: Some see a silver lining to Chicago’s woes. Cheaper high-end condos downtown. By The Editorial Board December 17, 2024 at 5:00 a.m. The Chicago-area residential real estate market as a whole is holding up fine. Plummeting downtown...
Editorial: Finally, aldermanic brakes are pressed on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s disastrous spending acceleration By The Editorial Board December 16, 2024 at 5:05 a.m. However the 2025 budget crisis is resolved, the most important takeaway from the past month...