Our View: Today we are in a considerably better place. So, let’s take some time to remind ourselves of some of the good things happening in northern Illinois for which we can be thankful.

Opinion on Veterans Day: Today, Veterans Day, we salute all veterans who served our country.

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: 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.

Our View: The lessons our children are learning this week have nothing to do with education, and more to do with the worst of the worst of politics.

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.

On Tuesday, Illinois had the fifth-lowest 7-day rolling average in the United States of new reported COVID-19 cases, with 22 per 100,000 residents, far surpassing it's neighboring states.