Letters to the Editor
Submissions from Chicago Sun-Times readers weighing in on issues facing the city and its residents.
They are willing to risk the completion of degrees or acquiring police records as allies of suffering civilians in Gaza, a reader from Hyde Park says.
Even in worker-friendly Illinois, employers have tremendous power and can discipline employees for declining to participate in non-work-related meetings that discuss politics or religion.
Many of these youth face challenges related to their hair care needs not being adequately met, which can impact their sense of self-worth and cultural belonging.
Eileen O’Neill Burke backs the Pretrial Fairness Act, and that should fill people working toward a more just and equitable system with hope, a pastor writes.
Not a dollar of taxpayer money went to the renovation of Wrigley Field and its current reinvigorated neighborhood, one reader points out.
A 2023 Supreme Court decision rolled back the federal Clean Water Act and overturned decades of protection for wetlands. New legislation would protect Illinois wetlands for the benefit of wildlife and communities that depend on them.
There’s clearly more to do to improve reading among lower-income students of color. But over the last two decades, no other large city in the nation has made as much progress, as quickly, as Chicago.
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.