Opinion: Widow Brittney Ramos: ‘Every person ... failed him. This cannot happen to another family’

Opinion: What should be done about the high price of gas?

Opinion: We need to have state laws in place that provide a clearly defined set of rules for how to respond to a pandemic.

Opinion: More approaches need to be studied and implemented to help improve the welfare of the animals sold to the public and address consumer demand.

Opinion: The Ukraine is 5,000 miles from northern Illinois, but from the response our communities have had to Russia’s invasion of the county last week it might as well be next door.

Opinion: Who is responsible for establishing the management structure at the Illinois Tollway? And what are the duties of the tollway board chairman and the agency’s chief?

Thousands of students have been excluded from school across northern Illinois this year because they sat on the bus, at lunch or in a classroom next to someone who tested positive for COVID-19.The reason makes sense: To limit the spread of COVID-19 in schools.

Decades of careless dragnet practices have alienated police from the people they are sworn to serve, particularly in Black and Hispanic neighborhoods.

When I walked into the Daily Chronicle office on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I never expected the paper I designed that day to be one that people would save. Twenty years later, as the only journalist from that day still at the Chronicle, I reached out to some of my former co-workers. Here's what they had to say: