Category: Editorials

2024 was a highly consequential election year, and the Tribune Editorial Board turned many times to the presidential campaign.

The message of Christmas is of reconciliation. This should not be lost on Mayor Brandon Johnson.

Gov. JB Pritzker must get more involved after Mayor Brandon Johnson has put Chicago’s public schools at tremendous risk.

Jamming through CTU’s financially ruinous contract before Chicago’s partially elected school board is seated is an affront to democracy.

The Des Moines Register’s wildly inaccurate Iowa poll days before the national election is cause for embarrassment, not a lawsuit.

The endless Kennedy Expressway reconstruction project has spoiled the holiday season for a city in need of economic action.

The Chicago-area residential real estate market as a whole is holding up fine. Plummeting downtown values still are concerning.

However the 2025 budget crisis is resolved, the most important takeaway from the past month is that city government is unaffordable.

The iconic Chicago drugstore Walgreens is on the ropes despite its massive size. Store closings and layoffs are likely.