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To run Chicago better, Mayor Johnson needs to hire better

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.’

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Clayton Harris III (left) and Eileen O'Neill Burke (rght) campaign for Cook County state's attorney on election day.

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Cook County state's attorney primary race shows every vote matters

The race for the Democratic nomination for Cook County state’s attorney reminds us that every vote from every neighborhood really does count.

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Adrian 'Cap' Anson was a great baseball player for the Cubs, but he wasn't a man of integrity

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.

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Our flag is meaningless if we don’t uphold our country's ideals, including free speech

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.

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In this June 1, 2020, file photo President Donald Trump holds a Bible as he visits outside St. John’s Church across Lafayette Park from the White House in Washington.

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Trump selling Bibles is just another grift to pay his legal bills

Donald Trump is selling $60 Bibles, and if Jesus had not been resurrected, he most certainly would be rolling over in his grave.

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Less of a hard pill to swallow? Keep prescription drug prices down

A Prescription Drug Affordability Board would help keep prescription drug prices down for Illinoisans.

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Ranked choice voting can become a reality if voters push for it

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.

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U.S. House can curb online sexual exploitation of children by passing this bill

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.

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A man walks near the entrance of the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center.

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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.

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An image of Barack Obama is paraded through crowds on Columbus Drive in Chicago after Obama was named president-elect Nov. 4, 2008.

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Barack Obama deserves to have a Chicago street named for him, but leave Columbus Drive alone

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.

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Bring 'Bring Chicago Home' back on the ballot, with a few changes

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.

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Mail-in ballots in a plastic tray labeled "United States Postal Service"

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Election Day came and went. He never got his mail-in ballot.

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.

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Examples of products containing red dye 3 or titanium dioxide, two of five additives that would be banned for use in foods and beverages under legislation proposed in Illinois. Shown are Kimberley’s frosted soft sugar cookies, Nesquik strawberry low-fat milk, Streit’s Jordan almonds and Sun-Maid vanilla yogurt covered raisins purchased on Jan. 21, 2024 in Chicago.

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Stop scaring consumers about food additives

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.

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A very tall cement prison wall with a lookout tower on one corner.

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AFSCME Council 31: We oppose Gov. Pritzker's plan to demolish Stateville, Logan prisons

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.

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Mayor Johnson, explain why your administration ignored Archdiocese offer of free housing for migrants

The city shut down park district facilities to house migrants even as the Catholic Archdiocese was offering its buildings.

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Near the corner of Wicker Park Avenue and North Honore Street in Wicker Park on Wednesday, March 25, 2020.

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Get rid of parking mandates that keep Chicago car-centric

Parking mandates make new housing more expensive to build and keep us from improving the city’s public transportation system.

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Cars zip along DuSable Lake Shore Drive.

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Here's a bright idea to raise revenue for Chicago

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.

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State's asthma emergency efforts are helping students breathe easier

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.

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Being an election worker is tough but worthwhile

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.

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Donald Trump craves unchecked power

If Trump is reelected, he will have complete immunity, a reader from Deerfield writes.

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Illinois should create a prescription drug affordability board to protect patients from price-gouging

Government intervention is needed so that lives are protected before pharmaceutical profits, a reader from South Shore writes.

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Ballparks Remain Empty On What Would Have Been Baseball's Opening Day

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Wrigley Field: Home of the Chicago Cubs ... and White Sox?

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.

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Leighton Criminal Courthouse on the Southwest Side of Chicago

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There's one way to determine if ending cash bond is working

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.

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Car accident on wet road during rain, head on collision side view. Two cars damaged after head-on collision, car crash. Car crash on the street, damaged cars after collision. Traffic rules violation

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Drivers pay car insurance based on their crash risk. That's fair.

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.

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People walk in and out of the George N. Leighton Criminal Courthouse on the Southwest Side, Monday, Sept. 18.

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Six months in, the Pretrial Fairness Act is working

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.

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Stop the illegal sales of disposable, flavored e-cigarettes that drive up youth vaping

While the Food and Drug Administration took a commendable step in 2020 by banning pod-based e-cigarettes, it neglected to impose restrictions on their disposable counterparts, creating a dangerous loophole.

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Would-be parents shouldn't have to clear hurdles to access IVF

It’s on states like Illinois to make access to IVF more widely available, to destigmatize it and to allow parents to grow their families through whatever means they and a doctor agree is medically appropriate.

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The Affordable Care Act is not enough to reach every American, reader Dan Noonan writes. The country needs Medicare for All.

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Illinois State Medical Society welcomes health insurance reform

Gov. J.B. Pritzker is right: Doctors and patients, not insurance companies, should make decisions about medical treatment.

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Broadway Armory Park Edgewater rally protest Chicago migrant shelter

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Chicago Park District field houses being used to house migrants should reopen to the public

Four field houses have been closed and used as shelters for migrants. As the migrant population declines, it’s time to give the facilities back to the neighborhoods.

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Black maternal mortality rates can be lowered with better access to health care

Black women have far higher maternal mortality rates than white women. Bringing more persons of color into the perinatal workforce, and requiring health care providers to complete training on implicit racial bias could help narrow the racial gap.

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