Editorials
The Chicago Sun-Times Editorial Board is the opinion voice of the hardest-working newspaper in America. The board includes Editorial Page Editor Lorraine Forte and members Thomas Frisbie, Marlèn Garcia, Lee Bey and Rummana Hussain.
The investigation by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability into excessive force complaints tied to arrests of pro-Palestinian demonstrators should be an educational tool to gauge what methods are most effective in deescalating potential hairy situations.
Without the Harrison Street bus terminal, or another site, Chicago would become the largest U.S. city without an intercity bus terminal. A new report should light a fire under the city — and state — to take action.
The truth is, it would be safer for motorists, pedestrians and cyclists if drivers drove even slower — 20, 15, even 5 mph. So where to draw the line? Why not start with tougher enforcement of the existing speed limit?
Illinois is one of 17 states in which dozens of measles cases have been reported this year, including eight cases in a Chicago migrant shelter.
Based on what we’ve seen of the Bears plans so far, and given the lakefront’s civic importance, Mayor Johnson should steer the team to consider other locations in Chicago.
Illinois is meeting the state’s electricity demand now. But the need is there to ramp up renewable energy projects, here and across the nation. One reason: the growth of artificial intelligence, AI.
The state gives smaller reimbursements to relatives who provide kinship care than it does to parents who are not related to the children. The Legislature can, and should, fix that.
With food insecurity still a challenge, it should be a priority to ramp up enrollment in a program that aims to alleviate hunger and improve health among moms, infants and toddlers.
The Supreme Court decided quickly to keep Donald Trump on the ballot, but is taking its time on Trump’s claim that he’s immune from criminal prosecution for any actions taken while president.
Nothing can bring back fallen Officer Ella French. Still, we hope there’s some sense of justice and closure for her loved ones after Emonth Morgan’s convicted for her 2021 murder.
CPS says it’s addressing accessibility upgrades and other needs, and the task at hand must be completed as soon as possible.
With a “financing partnership” between the two sports teams now in the works, Chicagoans know more about what they might be up against: Two wealthy sports teams joining forces to get huge taxpayer subsidies.
Fires sparked by batteries, plus a now-derailed plan to haul garbage downstate on a barge, show clearly: It’s time to be smarter about how communities dispose of their trash.
What’s really needed is to shore up local news. Voters say they don’t have access to clear, unbiased information on candidates amid a well-documented decline of local newspapers and news media.
It’s unclear whether Wendy’s backtracked or the fast-food chain’s CEO didn’t fully understand what “dynamic pricing” meant when he used the term. But surge pricing has no place in any restaurant, let alone fast-food establishments.
Executives for the nation’s two largest supermarket chains have admitted that they now offer lower prices, better products, better pay and more benefits because of — you guessed it — competition, according to the lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general.
Sure, the renderings of a proposed new White Sox stadium look great. But Pritzker made the right move to remind the billionaire sports franchise owner that Illinois has bigger fish to fry than figuring out how to pay for a $1.2 billion ballpark on the public’s dime.
Chicagoans need continual public assurances that Mayor Brandon Johnson and alderpersons are paying attention and prioritizing short-term solutions as much as addressing the underlying causes of gun violence.
In the wake of the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that frozen embryos are children, Republicans in Congress should work on a bill with U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a proponent of federal legal protections for IVF treatments.
The 39 high schools that have kept their school resource officers must come up with alternative plans, after a Board of Education vote that antagonized some local school councils, elected officials and others who wanted to keep LSCs in control of the matter.
The commuter, dangling from the Green Line train tracks, jumped into the bed of Chiquita Martin and Marcella Lockett’s pickup truck. The two good Samaritans deserve praise for their quick thinking to save the woman.
The governor’s proposed $52.7 billion budget for fiscal year 2025 still must run the gauntlet through the Legislature, so a final version is still up in the air.
The former teacher and union organizer considers himself a man of the people, but to reach the people, a big-city mayor has to be ready every day to take tough questions from journalists.
The public deserves to know much more about the potential impact of the deal between the nation’s largest supermarket chains.
Honda’s intended plan to correct the defect is better than nothing but it does not go far enough as an official safety recall.
Owner Jerry Reinsdorf wants to create a taxing district around the stadium to capture $400 million in state sales tax revenue once The 78 site is built-up, to help fund a new stadium and retire bonds sold to finance it.
Whether our majestic state insect will be designated as endangered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service this year is yet to be determined. The latest dismal count of monarchs in wintering locations show they might well deserve endangered status.
A study by the Citizens Utility Board reports customers are paying tens of millions for such things as utility memberships in trade associations, insurance policies to protect shareholders, goodwill advertising that enhances utilities’ images and charitable donations. The Legislature should rein in the practice.
ShotSpotter is bad enough to give it the ax now, yet good enough to keep around for another six months? Only in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s City Hall does this make sense.
Five years ago, the Sun-Times first reported on rampant complaints about filthy schools that were under the purview of Aramark, an international firm that has reaped hundreds of millions in Chicago Public Schools contracts for janitorial services.
America, and Chicago, don’t need more guns around when people easily fly off the handle, as a gunman did in Little Village this past Sunday, injuring seven people. Nearly four dozen mass shootings have been reported nationwide already in 2024.
Law enforcement officials have complained that the proposal would delay solving crimes. But juveniles are more likely to give false confessions, and it’s better to get it right than quick.