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Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza during the Cook County Democratic Committee slating meeting on Dec. 14, 2021 at IBEW Local 134 in Chicago.

David Greising: Illinois needs to rely on the right voices to get its financial house in order

February 17, 2022 at 4:24 p.m.

In her first days on the job in December 2016, Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza grabbed the purse strings of a state in the midst of a fiscal unraveling. The "rainy...

Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin along the city's riverfront on Feb. 3, 2022. Ken Griffin will back Irvin's bid to defeat Pritzker's re-election in the Illinois gubernatorial race.

David Greising: Ken Griffin explains why he is backing Richard Irvin for governor and the size of his campaign down payment

February 14, 2022 at 11:56 a.m.

Ken Griffin, the state's wealthiest person and prime mover behind Gov. J.B. Pritzker's biggest policy defeat to date, has made his decision: He will back Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin's bid...

Chicago CRED outreach supervisor Terrance Henderson participates in an outreach walk in Chicago's Roseland neighborhood on July 9, 2020.

David Greising: Arne Duncan has done violence prevention work for 5 years. Would he make a difference as mayor?

February 3, 2022 at 1:58 p.m.

The phone rang, and it was Arne Duncan on the line. He was on his way to Roseland, he said, in hopes he might help prevent violent retribution for a...

A detainee puts on her shoe after receiving an electronic monitoring device prior to being released from Cook County Jail April 12, 2018.

Op-ed: What’s awry with Lightfoot and Evans’ fight over electronic monitoring? Use of distorted data.

January 20, 2022 at 4:39 p.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Tim Evans, chief judge of the Cook County Circuit Court, are caught up in a dispute about the effectiveness of Evans' bail reform program and its...

Isa Gomez, 10, of Algonquin, watches as her mom, Donna Oshana, votes inside of the greenhouse of Tom's Farm Market and Greenhouses on Nov. 3, 2020, in Huntley.

Column: Jan. 6 showed us the power of voting is fragile. There must be safeguards.

January 6, 2022 at 2:53 p.m.

If we've learned anything in the year since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, it's that voting is vitally important. Defending the vote, and the nation's commitment...

Police investigate the shooting of a 24-year-old woman, a 27-year-old woman and a 35-year-old man in Chicago's East Garfield Park neighborhood on July 7, 2021.

Column: Does Mayor Lightfoot have fresh solutions for Chicago’s violence?

December 27, 2021 at 11:23 a.m.

A rash of violence and lawlessness has gripped major cities across the country. By one tally, a dozen major U.S. cities by early December had broken their annual records for...

Mayor Harold Washington arrives at Chicago City Hall on May 5, 1983.

Column: Chicago remap battles endure, as always. But this time its Black vs. Latino

December 9, 2021 at 11:16 a.m.

In federal court this week in Chicago, a lawyer representing the state legislature argued that race really doesn't matter when it comes to drawing electoral maps. "Illinois in 2020 is...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot shakes hands with David Casper, president and CEO of BMO Harris Bank, during an INVEST South/West announcement at L.May Creations in the Austin neighborhood on Oct. 21, 2019 in Chicago.

Op-ed: At two-year mark, Invest South/West shows promise

December 3, 2021 at 3:10 p.m.

The first map is made up of an array of dots, one for each homicide or nonfatal shooting in Chicago. It shows the darkest concentrations of dots in neighborhoods on...

Ken Griffin, CEO of Citadel, during an interview at the DealBook Online Summit in Manhattan on Nov. 10, 2021.

Column: Believe it or not, billionaires make Illinois politics better

November 11, 2021 at 3:08 p.m.

Billionaire to billionaire, Neil Bluhm told Sam Zell how it feels: The super wealthy are often the targets of opprobrium these days, and they don't like it. "You know, I'm...

Northwest Side Ald. Nicholas Sposato, 38th, during a City Council meeting on May 26, 2021, at City Hall. Sposato has said, "White people just know how to talk their way out of a ticket. They just cooperate."

Op-ed: The data doesn’t lie: Traffic stops reveal age-old biases in Chicago policing

October 29, 2021 at 8:21 a.m.

The surge in criminal violence in cities across the country seems to defy easy solutions. But, broadly speaking, courts have agreed on one tactic that should be off-limits: arbitrary and...

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