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David GreisingChicago Tribune |
“Objectively reasonable, necessary and proportionate”: Rarely have a set of words sounded so plain yet proved so inadequate in addressing what...
If Mayor Brandon Johnson seemed short-tempered after losing on the Bring Chicago Home referendum last week — the first major loss of his brief...
ShotSpotter is the technology that just won’t go away. At least not yet. Mayor Brandon Johnson intended to allow the city’s contract with the...
One my favorite rites of midwinter is when Richard Edelman, chief executive of the Chicago-based global public relations firm that bears his name,...
The nation since 2005 has lost a third of its newspapers and two-thirds of its newspaper journalists, according to a study by Northwestern...
The surge of migrants to Chicago, arriving by busloads from Texas, hardly marks the first time a Chicago mayor new to the job has faced an...
Mayor Brandon Johnson has reversed course on major policy moves twice in the last few weeks. In a sense, that’s a welcome development. For his...
There has been a lot of hand-wringing lately about the testy relationship between Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. Frankly, they...
As I began counting blessings in the run-up to Thanksgiving this year, a thought occurred to me: I wonder if it’s uncharitable to give thanks that...
It serves as a fitting metaphor that, in an effort to avoid tainting the jury in the trial of disgraced former Ald. Edward Burke, a rogues’ gallery...
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s decision to put the brakes on City Council approval of a key part of a new police contract was politically pragmatic and a...
Think of it as the reality check budget. As a candidate for mayor, Brandon Johnson had a neat and clean plan to raise $800 million from new taxes in...
At almost the same time this week, two meetings took place, both promoted as addressing Chicago’s violent crime problem. They had two very different...
After taking five years, the indictment against Hunter Biden is nothing but theatrics. Special counsel David Weiss is basically going through the...
Editor’s note: This is Part Five of a five-part series . When something is the worst in the nation, it seems self-evident that responsible...
Editor’s note: This is Part Four of a five-part series . In an effort to help fix the state of Illinois’ burdensome pension problem, the Civic...
Editor’s note: This is Part Three of a five-part series . As Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration was winding down in 2018, a group of about two...
Word for word, the clause protecting public employee pensions may be the most consequential sentence in the Illinois Constitution. The key phrase...
In this series, the Tribune’s Opinion section, in collaboration with the Better Government Association, analyzes one of the most vexing and...
When Gov. J.B. Pritzker delivered his first budget address in 2019, he laid out a muscular plan to fix an Illinois pension system that was the weakest...