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    Opinion

    Featured

    Mayor Brandon Johnson, seen through the light of a nearby camera, speaks at a press conference at City Hall on March 24, 2026. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)

    Editorial: On Mayor Brandon Johnson’s bizarre move to fire Chicago’s deputy mayor for community safety

    We believe Garien Gatewood's story on why Mayor Brandon Johnson fired him.
    Visitors walk around Cloud Gate, otherwise known as The Bean, in Chicago's Millennium Park on June 23, 2024. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)

    Ja’Mal Green: Don’t surrender Chicago to ‘teen takeover’ chaos

    The sun sets on the Illinois State Capitol on Nov. 29, 2023, in Springfield. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

    Andy Shaw: Tax the super-rich? Not if Illinoisans distrust the government.

    The logo for UnitedHealth Group appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, April 17, 2025. (Richard Drew/AP)

    Barbara Hoare: As premiums overwhelm Illinoisans, health care insurers are flush with cash

    Gov. JB Pritzker delivers his annual State of the State and budget address Feb. 18, 2026, at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

    Willie Wilson: Gov. JB Pritzker should suspend Illinois’ gas tax for 60 days

    Latest Headlines

    • Antonio Torres, 29, center, celebrates after Chicago Cubs outfielder Ian Happ scored during the first inning against the San Diego Padres during opening day at Wrigley Field on April 4, 2025. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)

      Editorial: Cubs opening day, hopeful forecast and, hey!, hey!, we’re optimistic

    • Flowers lie on the pier at Tobey Prinz Beach in Chicago on March 23, 2026. Loyola student Sheridan Gorman was fatally shot on the pier. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune)

      Letters: Killing of Loyola student Sheridan Gorman and TSA chaos demonstrate the failures of government

    • Then-Chicago mayoral candidates Willie Wilson, center, and Brandon Johnson chat at a mayoral forum at Steinmetz College Prep, Jan. 31, 2023. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)

      Laura Washington: Mayor Brandon Johnson’s reelection campaign will be in trouble if Willie Wilson runs again

    • Candidate signs outside the Robert Crown Community Center and Library on Election Day, March 17, 2026, in Evanston. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)

      Patrick Hanley: Ranked choice voting is a better way to make votes count

    • A couple stand in the ruins of their apartment after an airstrike in Tehran on March 15, 2026. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times)

      Bob Kustra: Donald Trump’s war on Iran masks his support of Vladimir Putin

    • Chicago firefighters line Harrison Street and salute outside the Cook County medical examiner's office as the procession for Chicago firefighter Michael Altman passes March 17, 2026. Altman died after being critically injured in a Rogers Park fire on March 16, 2026. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)

      Letters: Tribune reporters bring more pain to fallen firefighter Michael Altman’s family

    Editorials

    The United Center and surrounding area, west of Chicago's downtown, as seen on April 26, 2023. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

    Editorial: The Wirtzes and Reinsdorfs want tax breaks for Project 1901 after all. Alders shouldn’t rubber-stamp.

    Project 1901 at the United Center wants tax breaks. They should get a hard look from aldermen.
    • Editorial: Sheridan Gorman was not in the wrong place at the wrong time. The system failed her.

    • Editorial: America’s airport problems need to be fixed now

    • Editorial: Gov. JB Pritzker gets a big win with Hyundai Translead’s splashy Joliet investment

    • Editorial: A megabucks bailout is brewing for Big Ag as the farm economy struggles

    Commentary

    BP operator Joey Igras and fellow locked-out BP Whiting refinery workers picket outside the facility in Whiting, Indiana, on March 24, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)

    Peter Navarro: The lockout at BP’s Whiting refinery is one that America cannot afford 

    At a moment when energy markets are under strain, BP has chosen to provoke a labor showdown at one of the country’s most important refineries.
    • Michael J. Sacks: Why I support AIPAC and a big tent Democratic Party

    • Daniel DePetris: The Gulf states are between Iran and a hard place

    • Paul Vallas: Why both parties are failing our national security workforce

    • Jane M. Saks: Art is democracy’s essential second responder

    Letters to the Editor

    A Transportation Security Administration agent checks a traveler at Chicago O'Hare International Airport on Nov. 26, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune)

    Letters: Stop playing with the lives of TSA agents and flyers

    It is unethical to enjoy two weeks of paid vacation for Easter while expecting TSA officers to keep working without being paid.
    • Letters: Killing of Loyola student exposes the city’s priorities, which aren’t focused on real public safety

    • Letters: I think it’s time for insurance companies to be held accountable for rising rates

    • Letters: How can we reinvent downtown Chicago?

    • Letters: Our recent primary elections demonstrated that it’s time for ranked choice voting

    Columnists

    Two GIs with the U.S. 25th Division read the Stars and Stripes newspaper at Cu Chi, South Vietnam, on Sept. 10, 1969. (Mark Godfrey/AP)

    Clarence Page: Pentagon’s press panic threatens august Stars and Stripes

    Pentagon chief spokesperson Sean Parnell asserted that going forward, Stars and Stripes would be "by the warfighter and for the warfighter."
    • Edward Keegan: Donald Trump embraces a bastardized classical architecture for America’s 250th

    • Elizabeth Shackelford: The global oil crisis set off by the Iran war makes the case for renewable energy

    • Heidi Stevens: We need empathy more than ever. This would be a terrible time to say goodbye to books

    • Daniel DePetris: The war in Iran is beginning to grate on Donald Trump

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