Editorial: America just dumped the world. New loves will be forthcoming. By The Editorial Board April 4, 2025 at 5:05 a.m. What Donald Trump appears to underappreciate is that U.S. trading partners can forge, and bolster,...
Editorial: Want more voter participation? Here’s a way to get people more engaged. By The Editorial Board April 4, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. Illinois could borrow from other states' playbooks and give voters more of a chance to...
Editorial: Pay your debts to the city, Chicagoans, and save a buck in the process By The Editorial Board April 3, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. Chicagoans can pay their parking and some traffic tickets without penalties. Do the right thing.
Editorial: Trump’s foolish tariffs take the US economy back centuries By The Editorial Board April 3, 2025 at 6:29 p.m. President Donald Trump has launched a global trade war, as he promised to do during...
Editorial: Chicago has a domestic violence crisis hiding in plain sight By The Editorial Board April 2, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. Domestic violence in and around Chicago began an annual increase in 2019, and has spiked...
Editorial: Chicago Teachers Union ‘won’ what was long on the table. Financial strife abides. By The Editorial Board April 1, 2025 at 3:35 p.m. In the end, the Chicago Teachers Union accepted a collective-bargaining deal that essentially had been...
Editorial: Is Lincoln Yards becoming Chicago’s new Block 37? By The Editorial Board April 1, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. A bank's seizure from developer Sterling Bay of half the 55 acres to be developed...
Editorial: In Wisconsin, Elon Musk asks, ‘Who wants to be a millionaire?’ By The Editorial Board March 31, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. Elon Musk should not be handing out cash for votes in a Wisconsin judicial election.
Editorial: Springfield missed another opportunity to cut red tape and get Illinoisans back to work By The Editorial Board March 30, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. Illinois still has among the highest unemployment rates in the country. We need to get bad...
Editorial: Rockford’s version of the Mag Mile is thriving. A TIF worked wonders for it. By The Editorial Board March 30, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. As many Chicagoans can attest, TIFs don’t always go right. Rockford is a stark example...