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Rep. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, smiles as he addresses the legislature in the Arizona House of Representatives at the Arizona Capitol on Jan. 13, 2014, in Phoenix. The Republican lawmaker was a proponent of the state constitution to be amended to allow cuts to public employee pensions and increases in employee contributions if the systems are badly underfunded.

David Greising: What Illinois can learn from other states’ pension reforms

August 1, 2024 at 11:36 a.m.

Editor's note: This is Part Two of a five-part series. Word for word, the clause protecting public employee pensions may be the most consequential sentence in the Illinois Constitution. The...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks before signing the 2024 fiscal year budget on June 7, 2023, in Chicago.

David Greising: The challenge to erase Illinois’ $140 billion in pension debt

August 1, 2024 at 11:23 a.m.

Editor's note: This is Part One of a five-part series. When Gov. J.B. Pritzker delivered his first budget address in 2019, he laid out a muscular plan to fix an...

Chicago police Chief Larry Snelling, center, arrives with Mayor Brandon Johnson to be introduced as Johnson's choice for superintendent on Aug. 14, 2023, at City Hall.

David Greising: What Dr. Arwady’s firing, Larry Snelling’s selection and other decisions say about Mayor Johnson

August 18, 2023 at 3:05 p.m.

Mayor Brandon Johnson made two high-profile personnel moves this week that tell us a lot about what he will be like as mayor. A third, lower-profile appointment may yet say...

Mayor Brandon Johnson during the firefighter/EMT and paramedics graduation ceremony at the Arie Crown Theater on June 12, 2023.

David Greising: How will Mayor Brandon Johnson handle the limits of his power?

July 24, 2023 at 10:04 a.m.

When Brandon Johnson was sworn in as mayor May 15, to all outward appearances, he was assuming an office replete with the same grand powers it always had. But the...

A display case at Accuracy Firearms on Jan. 26, 2023, in Effingham, Illinois, holds an assortment of rifles that cannot be sold to customers because of recent state firearms legislation that bans the sale and distribution of assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines.

David Greising: Red flag tools are critical with assault weapons ban in limbo. We need court transparency.

July 7, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Nobody needs to tell the people of Highland Park that AR-15-type assault-style rifles, in the wrong hands, are a threat to civil society. Highland Park residents have attended the funerals...

A rendering released by the Chicago Bears shows the view from the threshold of the proposed stadium of the Arlington Park entertainment district. The Bears released proposed development plans for the Arlington International Racecourse property in Arlington Heights on Sept. 6, 2022.

David Greising: What options do Evanston and Arlington Heights have for clinching stadium deals?

June 23, 2023 at 11:04 a.m.

The Chicago Bears are tearing down the former Arlington Park horse track, even while conspicuously eyeing possible moves to places other than Arlington Heights. Naperville, Waukegan or even Soldier Field...

Charlie Beck, center, then interim Chicago police superintendent, and Mayor Lori Lightfoot sit for photos with the newest members of the Chicago Police Department prior to the graduation ceremony at Navy Pier on Dec. 18, 2019.

David Greising: Outsiders have done good things as Chicago’s top cop. Don’t rule out candidates with that status.

June 9, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

It's fitting that the city's new public safety commission must deliver a slate of three candidates for the job of Chicago police superintendent to Mayor Brandon Johnson by July 14....

Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson speaks during an inauguration ceremony for the first 66 people elected to the Chicago Police District Council on May 2, 2023, at the Harold Washington Cultural Center.

David Greising: Brandon Johnson pushes back on independence in the City Council

May 15, 2023 at 11:05 a.m.

The reorganization of the City Council that got underway in March, not long after Lori Lightfoot lost her bid for reelection in the mayoral primary, was a hot mess. Under...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot attends a joint ribbon-cutting and groundbreaking ceremony for an Invest South/West initiative development at 4308 S. Calumet Ave. in Chicago on, April 18, 2023.

David Greising: Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s inability to lead is why voters sent her looking for a new job

May 7, 2023 at 9:39 a.m.

The final few days of Mayor Lori Lightfoot's single term as mayor have given rise to an urban parlor game in which participants guess what she will do next. Run...

Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx addresses the Chicago City Club at Maggiano's Banquets on April 25. In her speech, Foxx announced she will not run for reelection next year.

David Greising: Kim Foxx and Lori Lightfoot show the reality of governing with progressive ideals in Illinois

April 28, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Much has been made of a new progressive era in Illinois politics, and a series of recent public remarks by elected Chicago officials formed a triptych of the promise and...

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