Opinion Columns
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Insurers should be focus of latest workers' comp debateDec 17, 2018 12:00 am - In 2011, at the urging of the state's leading business organizations, bipartisan majorities of Illinois lawmakers approved a workers' compensation overhaul aimed at redu...
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The collapsing gun lobbyDec 16, 2018 12:00 am - Sometimes, dramatic shifts in American politics go unnoticed. They are buried under other news or dismissed because they represent such a sharp break from long-standing ...
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Supreme Court poised to strike a blow against policing for profitDec 16, 2018 12:00 am - In 2015, Tyson Timbs" Land Rover was confiscated by Indiana authorities after he pled guilty to selling $225 of heroin to undercover officers to finance his opiate addic...
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Now, it's up to Pritzker to find long-term solutions despite short-term costsDec 14, 2018 12:00 am - After four tumultuous years of dysfunction between Gov. Rauner and the General Assembly, a multitude of difficult challenges await Gov.-elect Pritzker. These challenges ...
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Get-Trump talk shifts: now it's campaign finance, not RussiaDec 13, 2018 12:00 am - Prosecutors investigating President Trump made big news recently, but it wasn't about Russia. Rather, in their sentencing recommendation for fixer Michael Cohen, lawyers...
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The path to success for Heather Nauert at the UNDec 13, 2018 12:00 am - Those of us of a certain age can actually remember the high drama as America's Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson confronted the Soviets with photographic ...
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Pathogens couldn't care less about Italian politicsDec 12, 2018 12:00 am - FLORENCE, Italy - It was here in 1614 that Tommaso Caccini preached a sermon in the church of Santa Maria Novella denouncing Galileo and other scientists who held the he...
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New I-490 tollway can deliver long-awaited western O'Hare accessDec 11, 2018 12:00 am - It came as no surprise that O'Hare International Airport is on track to become the busiest in the United States once again. The Daily Herald's recent article, "Bridesmai...
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Corporate kowtowing and Chicago's failed bid for AmazonDec 10, 2018 12:00 am - Amazon settled on New York City and Northern Virginia for its second headquarters, so cue months of face saving from Chicago policymakers. But don't they know that resid...
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Some of George H.W. Bush's WASP values are worth keepingDec 09, 2018 12:00 am - The death of George H.W. Bush has occasioned a fair amount of nostalgia for the old American establishment, of which Bush was undoubtedly a prominent member. It has also...