David Greising

Students stop by after school to visit a memorial at the scene where four children died in an overnight fire on Sept. 8, 2014, in Roseland.

Op-ed: Chicago needn’t reinvent the wheel to address fire-safety issues — just pull from what other cities have done

October 14, 2021 at 5:49 p.m.

Over a six-year period beginning in 2014, 61 people died in 42 residential fires, in Chicago buildings where the city had prior knowledge of fire-safety hazards. By the time people...

Demonstrators with the Community Benefits Agreement Coalition rally in favor of affordable housing protection for Woodlawn, South Shore and other nearby communities, Sept. 28, 2021, outside the groundbreaking ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park.

Op-ed: Will the Obama Presidential Center do right by the South Side?

September 30, 2021 at 12:01 p.m.

It's striking that the groundbreaking for the Obama Presidential Center this week and the 150th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire next week are butting together in history. They both...

Chicago Park District Superintendent and CEO Michael Kelly after holding a news conference to announce disciplinary action taken against employees in the beaches and pools unit, and additional measures to protect the workforce within the unit, at South Shore Beach House on Aug. 16, 2021.

Op-ed: The Chicago Park District lifeguard scandal. A slow-motion disaster.

September 16, 2021 at 4:13 p.m.

The charges of sexual harassment of lifeguards and other aquatics employees at the Chicago Park District, and signs of serious government mishandling of the matter, have unspooled like a slow-motion...

baiduhai reporter Bill Recktenwald in the Tribune Tower newsroom in the 1970s.

Column: While mourning the loss of muckraker Bill Recktenwald, here’s some good news for the future of newsrooms

September 2, 2021 at 3:59 p.m.

In the heyday of undercover reporting in Chicago, Bill Recktenwald was a master of disguise. For a probe of election fraud in the late 1960s, he went undercover as an...

Chicago police investigate a shooting that killed two men in the 5000 block of West St. Paul Avenue in the North Austin neighborhood on Aug. 16, 2021.

Op-ed: The ‘whole-of-government’ tack for the pandemic found success. Will it work against Chicago violence?

August 24, 2021 at 12:45 p.m.

Science is the secret to fighting public health emergencies. The COVID-19 pandemic has taught this lesson. And the theory behind Mayor Lori Lightfoot's push to stop the surge of violence...

Firefighters at the scene of the blaze in a courtyard apartment building.

Op-ed: Since 2014, at least 61 people died in buildings with fire safety dangers known to city officials. Why hasn’t Chicago done more about this?

August 9, 2021 at 12:39 p.m.

From Memorial Day through Labor Day, Chicago's summers mark the time when homicides annually reach their bloody peak. Winter marks a killing season of a different sort. Just as hot...

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Op-ed: Chicago needn’t reinvent the wheel to address fire-safety issues — just pull from what other cities have done

Op-ed: Will the Obama Presidential Center do right by the South Side?

Op-ed: The Chicago Park District lifeguard scandal. A slow-motion disaster.

Column: While mourning the loss of muckraker Bill Recktenwald, here’s some good news for the future of newsrooms

Op-ed: The ‘whole-of-government’ tack for the pandemic found success. Will it work against Chicago violence?

Op-ed: Since 2014, at least 61 people died in buildings with fire safety dangers known to city officials. Why hasn’t Chicago done more about this?

Column: A ‘paper tiger’ legislative watchdog isn’t good enough

Column: The unjust, opaque exercise of aldermanic privilege. It needs to go.

Op-ed: The vital nature of a well-turned column. Good for the reader, for society

Column: The tangled and uncertain future of Prairie State Energy Campus