Editorial: Brandon Johnson uses race to try to preempt legitimate criticism. That won’t work well for Chicago. By The Editorial Board September 7, 2023 at 12:53 p.m. Mayor Brandon Johnson didn't just play the race card at a public event Tuesday night...
Editorial: Shawn Fain is a belligerent UAW boss. There could be big trouble ahead for US automakers. By The Editorial Board September 7, 2023 at 5:00 a.m. The United Auto Workers' contract with the Big Three U.S. automakers expires Sept. 14, and...
Editorial: City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin has some big questions to answer By The Editorial Board September 5, 2023 at 2:15 p.m. The city treasurer's office is the custodian and manager of all cash and investments for...
Editorial: Why we all must support the Port of Chicago By The Editorial Board March 12, 2024 at 11:57 a.m. Thousands of Chicago-area residents heading southeast for outdoor fun over the Labor Day weekend passed...
Editorial: Labor Day is Chicago’s kind of holiday By The Editorial Board September 4, 2023 at 5:00 a.m. Labor Day means picnics, parades, barbecues, road trips and that outdated stop-wearing-white rule. But it...
Editorial: Jimmy Buffett, musician and prophet By The Editorial Board September 3, 2023 at 4:28 p.m. Jimmy Buffett, who died Friday, played the first-ever concert at Chicago's Wrigley Field. How apt....
Editorial: Want to snag an effective tax cut? Stay out of all the new Illinois casinos. By The Editorial Board September 3, 2023 at 5:00 a.m. When riverboat casinos first opened in Illinois in the early 1990s, the state's most powerful...
Editorial: Bureaucracy rules in Chicago’s swim club shutdown and Evanston’s ‘tree cop’ plan By The Editorial Board August 31, 2023 at 12:08 p.m. Here in the dog days of August, the Labor Day holiday beckoning, most of us...
Editorial: The feds are about to take on Google’s alleged anticompetitive behavior. The history involves the ‘Chicago School.’ By The Editorial Board August 31, 2023 at 5:00 a.m. The federal government's biggest antitrust trial against a tech giant since it took on Microsoft...
Editorial: Little makes sense about the shooting at Sox game. Mayor Johnson could start by answering questions. By The Editorial Board August 29, 2023 at 4:30 p.m. At the ballpark, foul balls can hurt. But no one goes to baseball expecting to...