A Shaw Local editorial
Opinion: If anything of value is to come of the firing of Northwestern football coach Pat Fitzgerald, it must be a redoubling of our – and our hallowed institutions’ – resolve to truly eliminate the practice.
Opinion: This month, Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill that will allow all noncitizens – including those who are here without permission – to obtain a standard Illinois driver’s license.
Opinion: Trust is hard to come by, which makes our fascination with and reliance on online shopping all the more perplexing.
Opinion: Newspapers and broadcasts teem with stories about teens and young adults committing crimes – many of them horrible and violent.
Opinion: Northern Illinois earned a disturbing if temporary distinction last month: the worst air quality in the world among major cities.
Opinion: Education, underfunded pensions, public safety – the list is virtually endless. But when the Legislature and the governor enact a budget, they have to make the numbers balance.
Opinion: Gov. JB Pritzker got an unwelcome – but apparently not unexpected – message this month from a study of Illinois state employee pensions. It’s going to take a little longer than previously thought to catch up the state’s unfunded pension liability.
Here is the original transcript of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.
Opinion: Communities are spending tens of thousands of dollars on massive fireworks shows for the Fourth of July. Any of those displays will be far better than shooting off Roman candles in the street.
Opinion: Illinois and others states have taken steps to stop thefts that are on the rise in Chicago and elsewhere. But without national action, theft crews won’t be deterred from selling their stolen goods across state lines without much scrutiny.
Opinion: The National Fire Protection Association says gas grills are involved in more than 9,000 structure fires as well as outdoor fires per year.
Opinion: Illinois has become the first state in the union to protect librarians from efforts seeking to ban certain books. It’s much more complicated than that, to be sure, but that’s at the heart of it.
Opinion: Can state and federal legislators do anything to curb profit-taking, including by reducing the power of the dwindling number of giant corporations controlling the industry?
Opinion: When supermajority Democrats recently passed a law requiring legal challenges to executive orders or new laws to be heard in just two of the state’s 102 counties, they said it was necessary to prevent “judge shopping.”
Opinion: As the Chicago Bears stadium drama unfolds and towns come and go as potential venues, the team should remember this: They can always rely on Illinoisans as a fan base, but not a bank account.