Letters to the Editor
Submissions from Chicago Sun-Times readers weighing in on issues facing the city and its residents.
President Joe Biden must safeguard the futures of those who have already given so much to our state and ensure their ability to live and work without fear.
A CPS civics teacher wonders how a school’s need will be determined, revised or appealed. And how much budget transparency is in place to communicate cuts?
Twenty years after the city and CHA demolished high-rise public housing developments, there are still 130 acres of vacant land and buildings at several CHA redevelopment sites.
The South Side deserves and can have both a beautiful lakefront park and new investments in jobs.
Americans cast off a winning method to improve literacy. Replacing it with what?
The government will not use new, unchecked surveillance powers responsibly. It already habitually abuses Section 702, intended for surveillance of foreigners, to search Americans’ communications.
Reed fired at the officers first, prompting them to fire back. He turned a traffic stop into a violent incident, a reader from Irving Park writes.
A teen writes in favor of proposed legislation to require vape manufacturers to provide stores and gas stations with a certification that lists the details of their products, to ensure the products being sold are legal.
Because of widespread mistreatment by parents, coaches and players, many youth sports officials are quitting or not returning for a second season. That could lead to the end of youth sports as we know it.
Dexter Reed’s shooting reminds one letter writer of something she was told in the 1960s: “If a cop uses his gun, he doesn’t fire just once.”
Immigrants pay hundreds of billions in taxes each year, helping to fund the nation’s K-12 schools, Medicaid and Social Security.
Credit card companies benefit from this business model by charging fees. Stop the madness and support businesses that take cash.
Making it a felony to violate an order of protection will have unintended consequences. It is already an uphill battle to get Chicago police and Cook County state’s attorneys to charge violations of protection orders.
TIF money will help fund improvements to the bland high-rise that replaced Louis H. Sullivan’s historic Chicago Stock Exchange Building as the 100th anniversary of the architect’s death nears.
It seems Chicago’s mayor likes to project this idea of getting along, but he doesn’t seem to really get along with anyone who doesn’t agree with him.
Jurisdictions that allow physicians to prescribe life-ending medications for patients to self-administer have not reported widespread abuses.
Gov. Pritzker’s proposed FY25 budget includes significant investments in young learners and early childhood, but not nearly enough for the Early Childhood Access Consortium for Equity, a program to help educators get degrees and credentials.
He should take the advice of Warren Buffett when it comes to hiring the people who will execute his plans: ‘Always associate yourself with people who are better than you.’
The race for the Democratic nomination for Cook County state’s attorney reminds us that every vote from every neighborhood really does count.
In addition to being belligerent and despised by many, the Cubs legend is considered by baseball historians to have been the driving force in segregating professional baseball in the 19th century.
If you wrap yourself up in the American flag, like Donald Trump has, you’re considered patriotic by some people. It doesn’t matter if you attempt to overturn an election or call for the Constitution to be suspended.
Donald Trump is selling $60 Bibles, and if Jesus had not been resurrected, he most certainly would be rolling over in his grave.
A Prescription Drug Affordability Board would help keep prescription drug prices down for Illinoisans.
Most of the time, ranked choice voting is put in place by ballot initiative, including in Evanston, where residents voted to have RCV for municipal elections beginning in April 2025.
The Senate has already passed legislation to modernize how child sexual abuse material is stored and reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
A shout-out to Clinée Hedspeth, new head of city's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events
A local author praises Hedspeth, who helped him when Hedspeth was a director at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center.
Obama made his 2008 victory speech in Grant Park by Columbus Drive. The thoroughfare connected the audacity of hope with Chicago’s tradition of welcoming immigrants to a land of opportunity.
Mayor Brandon Johnson should try again with revisions that differentiate between commercial and residential sales and between sales of single-family and multi-family homes.
A reader from Englewood didn’t get the ballot he requested by mail. So, he showed up at his polling place. That didn’t go so well.
Proposed legislation to ban five food additives in Illinois leads consumers to believe there’s a systematic failure of the U.S. food safety system. That’s not true, the head of the National Confectioners Association writes.