Category: Editorials

The aviation industry’s culture of self-policing is vital to keeping us safe.

Mayor Brandon Johnson cajoled a slim majority of alders to approve his irresponsible $830 million bond plan. Investors are likely to be skeptical.

Time is nearly up in an embarrassing, months-long battle of wills over which Chicago governmental body will pay for pensions.

Races in Aurora, Cicero and Dolton show that municipal races are still very focused on what’s happening in our own backyards. 

Jeff Bezos announced a new direction for the opinion section of The Washington Post. The Tribune Editorial Board has some differences.

A power consortium wants to know by April 30 whether municipal utilities run by Winnetka, Naperville and St. Charles will remain members past 2035.

“Every few weeks,” wrote one of our more interesting critics, Walt Zlotow, on his Substack last spring, “the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board publishes an editorial misrepresenting the war in Ukraine.” Zlotow’s complaints included this statement in an editorial, also published last April: “We have never wavered in our support for the Ukrainian people against Russian […]

Metra, don’t take Illinoisans for a ride on this one. Release the results of the McGuireWoods investigation.

Waukegan through a series of missteps has made it so its long-awaited casino won’t open until 2027.

It took too long, but the state finally put the clamps on Peoples Gas’ unaffordable, decades-long project to rebuild Chicago’s gas system.