Letters to the Editor

Submissions from Chicago Sun-Times readers weighing in on issues facing the city and its residents.

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 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.
Closing the facilities for an extended period would all too likely disrupt and potentially destabilize the prison system, the executive director of Council 31 writes.
The city shut down park district facilities to house migrants even as the Catholic Archdiocese was offering its buildings.
Parking mandates make new housing more expensive to build and keep us from improving the city’s public transportation system.
The city can raise revenue by offering companies the opportunity to light the light poles along North DuSable Lake Shore Drive with colored bulbs representing their brands. There are thousands of CTA buses and drivers whizzing by on any given day. That’s a lot of eyeballs, which is music to advertisers’ ears.
In the first five months of the school year, 126 schools in 33 counties across Illinois reported using state-funded emergency asthma medication 265 times on students in respiratory distress.
There’s been a shortage of people signing up as election workers due to the intimidation and violent threats aimed at these volunteers. But every election requires bipartisan oversight to ensure fairness.
If Trump is reelected, he will have complete immunity, a reader from Deerfield writes.
Government intervention is needed so that lives are protected before pharmaceutical profits, a reader from South Shore writes.
To test whether we still need two baseball teams in Chicago — or whether the Sox should stay — Wrigley Field should host both teams. If the Sox start winning again and minting money on the North Side base, maybe a new stadium makes sense. If they win a World Series and still don’t draw a crowd, they can consider leaving town.
It’s accountability. What percentage of people released without a cash bond are showing up for their court date, a retired Cook County corrections officer asks.
Insurance companies consider some personal characteristics in pricing auto insurance, such as age, marital status, gender and credit score, because these factors provide a more accurate assessment of risk.
Since the law’s implementation, the jail populations in several counties have decreased because people are no longer being held because they can’t afford to bail themselves out.