Advocates: We can protect Chicago’s Bryn Mawr Avenue while developing it
Community organizations in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood have advocated for years to protect and revitalize the...
Commentary
Stacey Gillett: What reopening pandemic time capsules taught me about the future
Five years after Chicago youths documented life during the pandemic, their reflections offer a different...
David Greising: Rep. Harry Benton resigned after misconduct allegations. The state owes us a report.
A lack of a report on Harry Benton is a shortcoming in implementation of the...
Stuart Loren: Chicago’s pensions had a great year, but that won’t save them
Contributions to Chicago's pension funds hit records, but servicing debt obligations consumed nearly every dollar...
Birju Shah: Requiring AI audits makes sense. But Illinois legislators got the order of things wrong.
Illinois Senate Bill 315 gets the sequence backward. It mandates audits before anyone has defined...
J.B. Branch: Brace yourself for the AI public relations blitz
Big Tech has a major accountability and responsibility problem. But the tech bros see it...
Willie Wilson: Billions of dollars in spending has not saved Black Chicago from the scourge of gun violence
More bureaucracy in the form of a new Office of Gun Violence Reduction will not...
Laura Washington: The socialists and moderates in the Democratic Party must work together to regain Congress
No matter how hard left-leaning Democrats try to portray themselves in the majority, they need...
Erika M. Kitzmiller: Chicago families fill in the gap for underfunded schools — but that helps fuel inequities
Relying on private funding for public education fuels inequity in the city’s schools.
Forrest Claypool: The deadly cost of siloed governance when no one is in charge
In Chicago, responsibility is so thoroughly diffused that when the system fails, every agency can...