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    Opinion

    Featured

    A coach house in the 900 block of North Honore Street on July 16, 2025, in the East Village neighborhood of Chicago. (Dominic Di Palermo/Chicago Tribune)

    Editorial: City Council makes fitful, but important progress on Chicago’s housing woes

    We agree that incorporating granny flats — coachhouses or converted basements, for example — could play a small but meaningful role in easing Chicago’s housing shortage.
    State Sen. Napoleon Harris III, facing camera, embraces Appellate Court Justice C.A. Walker after Harris was sworn in as Thornton Township supervisor in South Holland on May 19, 2025, replacing Tiffany Henyard. Harris’ wife, Nicole, is at right. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune)

    Editorial: As Thornton Township supervisor, Napoleon Harris III is getting paid like he’s Tiffany Henyard

    Pace and CTA busses wait outside the Howard CTA station in Rogers Park on May 22, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune)

    Maurice Scholten: The RTA has more money to work with than it realizes. State lawmakers need to know this.

    Dozens of people protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and rally in support of immigrants outside the Department of Homeland Security offices in downtown Chicago, on July 7, 2025. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)

    Will Johnson: On immigration, Chicagoans really are different

    Surrounded by vintage signage and cars, Steve Langridge votes in the primary election at Windy City Motors on March 19, 2024, in Chicago. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)

    Jim Nowlan: Democracy thrives on competition. Run for office.

    Latest Headlines

    • Conservative political commentator Rogan O'Handley, aka DC Draino, from left, and social media content creator Chaya Raichik hold binders with a cover titled "The Epstein Files: Phase 1" at the White House on Feb. 27, 2025, in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP)

      Letters: The Justice Department’s conclusions about the Epstein case are no surprise

    • Then-Orland Park mayoral candidate Jim Dodge, left, celebrates with former state Rep. Jim Durkin during the election night party at Blissful Banana restaurant in Orland Park on April 1, 2025. (James C. Svehla/for the Daily Southtown)

      Editorial: Suburban mayoral campaigns shouldn’t cost this much

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      Editorial: Managers of exotic investments want more access to your 401(k). Bad idea.

    • State Sen. Robert Martwick, center, works at his desk during debates on bills on the Senate floor at the Illinois State Capitol on May 29, 2025, in Springfield. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)

      Civic leaders: Gov. JB Pritzker should veto bitter pension sweetener for Chicago

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      Willie Wilson: Is Illinois’ state procurement being used effectively to stabilize communities of color?

    • A portrait of President Donald Trump with a U.S. flag on his face is hung between portraits of former first ladies Laura Bush and Patricia Nixon in the East Wing's visitor foyer on June 18, 2025, in Washington. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty)

      Letters: Yes, Donald Trump is a great man. He has a lot of guts.

    Editorials

    Students navigate the hallway on the first day of school at Washington High School, Aug. 26, 2024, in Chicago.  (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)

    Editorial: A second chance for school choice in Illinois

    Now the ball’s back in Gov. JB Pritzker’s court once more for school choice.
    • Editorial: Gov. Pritzker and State Farm should stop throwing rhetorical bombs at each other and start negotiating

    • Editorial: A city where every teen can find work — that should be the goal

    • Editorial: Alarm bells are ringing for Chicago in Kraft Heinz’s decision to split in two

    • Editorial: TSA gives ‘shoes off’ policy the boot

    Commentary

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    Ranju Kunwor: Are self-help books really helping us?

    Readers want quick fixes and digestible answers. But philosophy, healing and self-understanding cannot be condensed into small bites.
    • Talla Mountjoy: ‘We’ll survive. Iran always survives.’ Israel’s attacks as seen through journal entries.

    • Benjamin Van Vliet: The US and Illinois need market clarity on crypto

    • Daniel DePetris: Vladimir Putin’s conduct causes Donald Trump to have a change of heart on Ukraine

    • Real estate brokers: Chicago needs to legalize citywide granny flats now

    Letters to the Editor

    A visitor picks up a revolver at the Charter Arms booth at the National Rifle Association annual meeting April 25, 2025, in Atlanta. (Joe Raedle/Getty)

    Letters: Blame those who shoot the gun in killings, not the gun manufacturers

    Strengthen the justice system and law enforcement to hold these criminals and careless gun owners accountable.
    • Letters: Home insurers in Illinois are not arbitrarily hiking rates

    • Letters: Large-scale nuclear power is a vital tool for our energy future

    • Letters: Illinois Senate President Don Harmon abuses the ‘self-funding’ loophole

    • Letters: Road shutdown for NASCAR race makes life beyond difficult for nearby residents

    Columnists

    An ICE agent is shown at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on June 15, 2025. ICE detained an immigrant in Skokie. (Audrey Richardson/Chicago Tribune)

    Elizabeth Shackelford: Donald Trump wants to deport migrants to South Sudan. What awaits them isn’t pretty.

    I have worked in South Sudan as a diplomat. It is on the brink of civil war, and its government has a horrific human rights record.
    • Daniel DePetris: The strife in Ecuador, Mexico and Haiti is easy to miss in our frenetic news cycle

    • Clarence Page: Old ‘welfare queen’ legends haunt Donald Trump’s budget plan

    • Heidi Stevens: On long list of things being cut, art may seem inconsequential. It’s not

    • Steve Chapman: Congress and the Supreme Court approve Donald Trump’s drive for absolute power

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