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Neither the Georgia indictment nor the federal case will lead directly to his exclusion from office, a University of Chicago law professor writes. But ultimately, the two cases might have very different consequences.
Most schools are underprepared to manage the trauma students experience from violence in the community and then bring to the classroom. Kids need more outreach, mentoring and activities.
The bill the governor vetoed would have opened the door to negative environmental impacts and higher costs for consumers while jeopardizing progress toward Illinois’ clean energy future.
We need to have a national conversation about measuring elected officials’ physical and mental-brain health, balancing the public’s right to know with the person’s right to privacy.
Navigator Heartland Greenway LLC is trying to gaslight us into believing that CO2 pipelines are always safe.
In this sophistry, the GOP’s lack of moral courage to oppose Trump appears virtuous, actions to hold him legally accountable seem wrong, and Trump’s perfidy is meant to look innocuous if not somehow patriotic.
Mental health care has surged as a policy priority, but the nation, including Illinois, faces an alarming shortage of mental health professionals.
While HB 3751 was presented as an “option” for law enforcement departments, it’s actually a mandate to hire non-citizens as police officers.
At a family party in Wisconsin in 2018, my cousin, the family chronicler, said, “Your father didn’t die from smoking. He died from exposure to toxins at Oak Ridge.”
The opening pages read as if the billionaire sponsor of the project, Pat Ryan, had written them himself.
Woodlawn Central is meant to be a model of urban regeneration, increasing jobs and economic opportunities and bringing in a demographically diverse mix of residents,
Someone who needs a subsidy to live affordably should have just as many options of where to live as someone who does not. You cannot build affordable housing only where it’s cheapest, or where people will protest the least.
We are a nation of movements, with a new generation advocating for Black Lives Matter, defunding the police, LGBTQ+ issues, abortion rights and anti-gun legislation. On the other side are their polar opposites.
Crosswords became my passion. I was voracious. I took long bathroom breaks at work. I kept my puzzle mania from my wife, who thought they were a waste of time.
Race is not a biological construct. Health disparities are the result of social conditions, not genetics.
A recently released Stanford University study shows the impact charter schools can have on closing achievement gaps for students of color.
Pundits wrote off the Far South Side as unredeemable. But a community plan for economic development and jobs, housing, recreation and education is paying off big in Pullman — and expanding to Roseland, David Doig writes.
One recent survey ranked Chicago near the bottom on bikeability among big cities. But with public support, the right changes can be made to make Chicago even safer for cyclists, an Active Transportation Alliance leader writes.
The case for immigration and immigrants is clearer than ever. We know it can appeal to both hearts and minds, and change the narrative .
If we hesitate to capitalize on this opportunity, other states won’t, putting at risk the jobs that could have been anchored right here in Illinois.
A key question is what can be done to make algorithms foster accurate human social learning rather than exploit social learning biases.
Without more intervention at the local, state and national levels, we will remain in a fight we cannot win to care for the busloads of asylum seekers who continue to arrive in Chicago. We are in a state of emergency.
A bill co-sponsored by U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin could add hundreds of thousands of foreign workers to the country’s tech labor market, boxing out American workers hit by recent tech layoffs.
Further attempts to sabotage the Pretrial Fairness Act would disregard the will of many Illinoisans and jeopardize public safety, a top ACLU official writes.
As attorney general, defending access to reproductive care and patient privacy are among my top concerns. Attempts to invade patient privacy likely won’t stop with abortion.
The designation of the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument is a healing step in honoring Black history, but much more must be done.
Most young people rarely, if ever, read for fun. By linking art with reading, young people can learn to love both — and develop their knowledge of the world.
The university’s plan will restrict hospital access and subject patients and caregivers to noise that is incompatible with the standard of care.
Illinois, for instance, has over-relied on local property taxes to fund K-12 education, effectively tying educational quality to local property wealth that is markedly lower in segregated Black communities.
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