Time to start over on Chicago’s budget after the remarkable 50-0 City Council vote to kill Brandon Johnson’s $300 million property tax hike.
Editorial: Mayor Johnson’s property tax hike was defeated by a score of 50-0. Now the real work begins.
Category: Editorials
Editorial: Justice is not revenge. The nomination of Matt Gaetz as attorney general cannot stand.
Donald Trump’s nomination of former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general is all about retribution, not justice.
Editorial: Oprah Winfrey should not have asked Kamala Harris for a check
Celebrity endorsements like an Oprah Winfrey infomercial did not work for Kamala Harris.
Editorial: Who’s the threat to democracy now? Brandon Johnson mocks Chicago voters with CPS power play.
What could be more anti-democratic than jamming through an unpopular education agenda just days after the public voted against it?
Editorial: There was a time when restaurateurs like Billy Lawless got help from the city
Billy Lawless, a great restaurant developer, was helped by Chicago and helped it grow in return.
Editorial: What Chicago has lost with the demise of the Pitchfork music festival
The end of the Pitchfork music fest is more than a dollars-and-cents loss for Chicago. It strikes at our identity.
Editorial: Walgreens’ woes are about more than an iconic Chicago company’s future. Our health is at stake, too.
Walgreens CEO Tim Wentworth is fighting on two fronts: closing money-losing stores and battling pharmaceutical middlemen.
Editorial: Government started the get-high-with-hemp free-for-all. Time to stop it.
Disturbing evidence that kids are in danger due to the proliferation of potent hemp products cries out for state action.
Editorial: Illinois and Donald Trump are no match made in heaven. But they’ll have to work together.
Illinois will do better without the war of words between its governor and president.
Editorial: Why are interest rates rising while the Federal Reserve is cutting? Trump deficit worries could be at work.
Bond investors have sent Treasury yields significantly higher in recent weeks even as the Federal Reserve has cut interest rates.