Editorial: Chicago’s pension investments likely are doing worse than your 401(k). Big problem. By The Editorial Board August 20, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. Returns at all of Chicago's municipal pension funds have lagged the median performance of public...
Editorial: A state law giving school kids mental health screenings leaves the sensitive details to bureaucrats By The Editorial Board August 19, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. State lawmakers, in their haste to pass well-intentioned legislation, sure did leave a heck of...
Editorial: DuSable Lake Shore Drive has become unsafe. Let’s do something about it. By The Editorial Board August 19, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. Chicago's iconic highway along Lake Michigan has become a drag strip. We have an old-fashioned...
Editorial: Artificial intelligence meets fried chicken at Wingstop By The Editorial Board August 18, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. Wingstop’s new digital operating system streamlines ordering and evaluates scads of data to predict how...
Editorial: Who’s afraid of a healthy school lunch? By The Editorial Board August 18, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has launched an initiative to...
Editorial: His own appointees revolt, but Mayor Brandon Johnson won’t let this CPS pension spat go By The Editorial Board August 17, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. Mayor Brandon Johnson keeps demanding that a broke Chicago Public Schools shoulder a $175 million...
Editorial: A wonderful imagined future for Chicago’s Grant Park. Now, who pays? By The Editorial Board August 18, 2025 at 8:27 a.m. Let's better connect Grant Park to Lake Michigan. There's a plan.
Editorial: CPS doubles down on ‘sustainable community schools.’ Where are the results? By The Editorial Board August 15, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. Schools can connect families to outside help, but they cannot be all things to all...
Editorial: Even an honored Kiss is better than UFC on the White House lawn By The Editorial Board August 15, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. Appalled at Donald Trump's Kennedy Center honors featuring Gene Simmons of KISS? Just wait for...
Editorial: Opposing Mayor Brandon Johnson’s tax-increase ideas is not a criminal act By The Editorial Board August 14, 2025 at 9:52 a.m. "Crime of the century?" Some bad budget framing from Chicago CFO Jaworski.