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Taxpayer resolution staffers help property owners in the Cook County assessor's office on July 23, 2026. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune)

Editorial: High-tax Cook County still can’t collect and distribute property taxes on time

Property tax collections and distributions are late again, and no one in Cook County is taking responsibility.

Broadcast booths for CNN sit empty outside the White House in Washington on Sept. 21, 2026. Major television networks on Monday agreed to suspend their pooled coverage of President Donald Trump after the White House refused to allow CNN to serve as a pool representative on Monday. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)

Editorial: Donald Trump and his gossamer skin are far too easily pricked

Chicago Police Department recruits listen to speakers during the department's graduation and promotion ceremony at Navy Pier on July 22, 2025. (Dominic Di Palermo/Chicago Tribune)

Police district councilors: No, Chicago doesn’t need a thousand new cops

Vehicles are parked for student pickup after class dismissal outside Francis W. Parker School at 330 W. Webster Ave. on May 22, 2026, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)

Student: Francis Parker’s expansion plans are about more than Lincoln Park

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, second from left, looks on while Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, center right, and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, center left, during the Carpathian 8 Summit in western Ukraine on Sept. 18, 2026. Tusk warned his parliament that Moscow could launch a drone or missile attack on a NATO member state in the next few months. (Vladyslav Musiienko/AP)

Daniel DePetris: Vladimir Putin’s extension of the war beyond Ukraine has European leaders worried

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U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., walks with Geoffrey Hinton, left, and MIT professor and the co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, Max Tegmark, fourth from left, before addressing an artificial intelligence briefing for senators on Sept. 16, 2026, at the U.S. Capitol. Sanders announced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, forthcoming legislation that would put strict limits and controls on the development of Al. (Roberto Schmidt/Getty)

Editorial: Time to panic about AI? Take a look at what we know about the job market

Any regulatory response to AI should not be an outgrowth of panic.

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Lawyer Kevin Reddington speaks to the media after the judge declared a mistrial in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial at Plymouth County Superior Court on Sept. 4, 2026, in Plymouth, Massachusetts. (Charles Krupa/AP)

Monu Bedi: Lindsay Clancy mistrial shows that jury nullification cuts both ways

The Lindsay Clancy mistrial shows that juries possess power that courts cannot control.

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A police sergeant wears a jacket with the Chicago Police emblem May 20, 2026. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)

Letters: Here are important questions to ask candidates for Chicago police superintendent

Who becomes Chicago’s next police superintendent is a critical concern for our coalition to enforce the Chicago police consent decree.

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Donald Trump Jr. and his girlfriend, Bettina Anderson, attend a celebration of the Army's 250th birthday on the National Mall in Washington on June, 14, 2025. A Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to help finance Trump Jr.'s wedding after-party in the Bahamas this year, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

Elizabeth Shackelford: The Trump family’s corruption costs America

The same people who were indignant over Hunter Biden have turned a blind eye to the conflicts of interest rife in Donald Trump's administration.

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Editorial: High-tax Cook County still can’t collect and distribute property taxes on time

Editorial: Donald Trump and his gossamer skin are far too easily pricked

Police district councilors: No, Chicago doesn’t need a thousand new cops

Student: Francis Parker’s expansion plans are about more than Lincoln Park

Daniel DePetris: Vladimir Putin’s extension of the war beyond Ukraine has European leaders worried

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Letters: Gov. JB Pritzker is right to tread carefully when it comes to ‘school choice’

Editorial: Quantum is not AI, folks, and Chicago is not building a lakefront data center

State Sen. Willie Preston: If Chicago won’t act to allow video gaming, the state must step in

Dan Tully: 2001’s Authorization for Use of Military Force is being treated like a forever law for forever wars

Clarence Page: Is this Team Humanity’s last chance to stand up to AI?

Letters: Illinois’ medical-aid-in-dying law creates a crisis for providers and bioethics

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Editorial: Time to panic about AI? Take a look at what we know about the job market

Editorial: Our mayor uses ‘corporate’ as a slur. But Chicago’s business community opts for constructive engagement.

Editorial: Live in Illinois and want an education freedom tax credit? Indiana says it is here to help.

The Tribune’s Quotes of the Week for Sept. 19

Editorial: Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, a strikingly competent parks administrator

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Monu Bedi: Lindsay Clancy mistrial shows that jury nullification cuts both ways

Sally C. Pipes: The first mRNA flu vaccine may be just the beginning

Gene Robinson and Rashid Bashir: Chicago can be the place where the world learns to build AI worthy of trust

Edward Keegan: Chicagoland gets its first architecturally distinguished stadium in over a century

Will Kamin: A Chicago-native Bears fan’s love letter to the Hoosier State

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Letters: Here are important questions to ask candidates for Chicago police superintendent

Letters: Aldermen need to be realistic about what can be done for safer streets

Letters: We need to create reasonable limits on spending in elections

Letters: Mayor Brandon Johnson calls out AIPAC in an effort to drum up support for his campaign

Letters: The cost of Wildcats games at the new Ryan Field will price out ordinary people

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Elizabeth Shackelford: The Trump family’s corruption costs America

Daniel DePetris: Will Iran become a two-front war?

Clarence Page: Don’t let the war on woke lull us all to sleep

Heidi Stevens: ‘Please tell your own story.’ How Gloria Steinem’s final request reflects her legacy.

David Greising: If we held city elections on the same day as national elections, it would strengthen democracy

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