However the 2025 budget crisis is resolved, the most important takeaway from the past month is that city government is unaffordable.
Editorial: Finally, aldermanic brakes are pressed on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s disastrous spending acceleration
Category: Editorials
Editorial: Will a bloated Walgreens, troubled for years, swallow a bitter pill for Chicago?
The iconic Chicago drugstore Walgreens is on the ropes despite its massive size. Store closings and layoffs are likely.
Editorial: Aldermen, vote for this bloated Chicago budget at your political peril. Peer cities are not so reckless in their spending.
Spending growth in Chicago since the year before the pandemic far exceeds other major U.S. cities.
Editorial: Immigration czar Tom Homan treats a Christmas party like a good opportunity to threaten Chicagoans. Bad idea.
Trump Immigration czar Tom Homan hijacks a Christmas Party with crude bluster. Dial it back, man.
Editorial: Head-spinning Brandon Johnson staff issues call for City Hall culture reset
A cluster or senior-staff controversies illuminates a lack of accountability in Brandon Johnson’s City Hall.
Editorial: Bears, Blackhawks, Bulls — there’s pain wherever a Chicago sports fan looks. If they can even watch.
As a city, Chicago is struggling in many ways. Some escapism would be nice, but our professional sports teams aren’t obliging.
Editorial: AI is ‘helping’ with your online holiday shopping, whether you like it or not
Artificial Intelligence is affecting our lives in ways we recognize easily — or not. We need some governmental guardrails.
Editorial: Downtown Chicago needs reimagining. It’s OK (this time) to think small.
A large group of Chicago luminaries has ideas — lots of them — for reviving Chicago’s downtown. Grab a few, and let’s go.
Editorial: Lame-duck Biden administration should not intentionally sabotage the new Trump crew
Biden officials should not sign deals that hobble Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy from at least trying to control government costs.
Editorial: Oak Park, Evanston and Aurora were guinea pigs in a huge fluoride experiment. Now what?
Dr. Oz and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are likely to push fringe claims like the downside to fluoride. Watch out.