Letters to the Editor
Submissions from Chicago Sun-Times readers weighing in on issues facing the city and its residents.
Taxing and regulating online casino games could bring in nearly $10 billion in new revenue over the next five years, a gambling executive writes. Other readers weigh in on the 2024 presidential election and the Supreme Court ruling on homelessness.
Test-in schools are known as “elite,” but neighborhood schools such as Lake View and Kenwood Academy have a lot to offer.
Led by rookie star Reese, they’re the best game in town, a reader from Cicero writes. Another reader laments the pressure Biden faced to drop out of the 2024 presidential race.
The voters spoke during the primaries, a reader from Lemont writes. Big-money donors and high-profile Democrats should have stayed quiet. Plus, other readers weigh in on the presidential race.
In Vance’s book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” he famously describes the misery of the white working class in Appalachia and goes on to blame and sneer at those people for their plight.
A Lake County election judge calls out Salvi for implying at the RNC that votes weren’t counted in recent elections. Readers also weigh in on the RNC, the new health insurance law and electric stoves.
Far too many women in Chicago don’t get paid enough to afford to live in this city. Plus, readers weigh in on traffic gridlock and George Clooney.
Conservatives aim to dismantle unions, a plan that is underscored in Project 2025, a reader from Carol Stream writes.
Improving our infrastructure with revenue from an increase in motor fuel taxes is a good bet, one labor leader writes. Plus, Chicago should get more ‘novelty’ sports events in addition to NASCAR.
All these shocked reactions and pleas for unity ring so hollow after Donald Trump was nearly killed, a Lake View reader writes. Plus, more on Republicans, the convention and guns.
This is just another example of the great city of Chicago fixing what is not broken, a reader from Bucktown writes.
A young leader reflects on an organization that gave her purpose, plus letters from readers who want Biden to stay and others who want him (and Trump) to go.
“Why are all these events in Grant Park? Why can’t these events be moved elsewhere? Why dump all the misery on us?” asks a frustrated reader who lives in the South Loop.
The survival of democracy is at stake. Democrats lack vision, but Trump and other Republicans want to diminish environmental protections and the rights of voters, women and labor groups.
A retired Chicago police lieutenant writes that at one time people committing violence mostly looked to take out rivals. Nowadays, more innocent people, including children, become victims.
Companies with armies of lawyers will have an easier time polluting our air, land and water, a reader from Edgewater writes.
Ald. Debra Silverstein’s push for education in reporting hate incidents is a thinly veiled attempt to censor opposing voices, a reader from Rogers Park writes.
Homeowners can generate income to help pay their mortgage or to facilitate multi-generational households, a South Loop reader says. Our readers also weigh in on renaming public schools, campaign spending, the Stones, Bible mandates, Trump and Biden.
The recent death of a Hickory Hills grandfather, allegedly at the hands of his abusive grandson, serves as a reminder that domestic violence can also involve non-intimate partners.
The principle that “no man is above the law”? Oops, so much for that. Plus, Democrats should stop denying Biden should quit presidential race.