We cheer news of arrests in the murders last year of Elgin teen Jesse Kendall and separately of Innovations High School students Robert Boston and Monterio Williams.
The Nation’s Report Card is clear: Illinois students are struggling. They need options. They need accountability.
On the face of it, it’s odd for a governor beginning his seventh year in office to say he wants to prove Illinois “can govern itself.” But it makes sense to us.
Trump’s cudgel tariffs elicit Canadian boos. Remember when Canada, Mexico and the U.S. were friends?
Here are some of the sweet spots from the 10 darkest weeks of the year.
City officials presented aldermen with a highly unrealistic plan to provide soup-to-nuts regulation of the hemp business.
The U.S. Supreme Court said no to the Sackler family’s previous attempt to settle their opioid-addiction liabilities. The latest try should be rejected, too.
Branding state work as an easy, cushy gig strikes a bitter chord with taxpayers, and it won’t do Springfield any favors.
Massive workforce reductions that worked for Elon Musk after he bought Twitter aren’t necessarily duplicable to the federal bureaucracy.
Voters in Dolton and Thornton Township have a chance at a clean start — they should take it.