West Chicago Opinion
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Mailers misleading on gun safety positionsOct 22, 2018 1:00 am - The November race for voters in the Illinois 24th Legislative District has Suzy Glowiak, Western Springs resident and former village trustee representing the Democratic ...
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Endorsements: Cronin, Mendrick lead our endorsements in DuPage CountyOct 16, 2018 1:00 am - DuPage County Board chairman: Ask voters what they want and the answer is clear: Provide quality services, hold the line on property taxes and eliminate levels of go...
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County board cuts stop short of hitting homeOct 09, 2018 5:00 am - I was saddened to read how proud the (Du Page) county board was to have made so many cuts to their budget, but nothing was mentioned about cutting their compensation - s...
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Sean Casten's bilious statementsOct 07, 2018 1:00 am - Sean Casten, the Democrat challenging Rep. Peter Roskam in the 6th Congressional District, pronounced recently that aborting a baby is like "having gallbladder surgery."...
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New Law Allows Kids To Unlock PotentialJul 22, 2018 11:00 pm - Thanks to an acceleration law championed by Senator Kimberly Lightford and Representative Camille Lilly, thousands of advanced learners from across Illinois will now hav...
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The ideological black hole of climate changeJun 10, 2018 1:00 am - In Mexico, according to National Geographic magazine, 9 million monarch butterflies perished in a spring snowstorm that was "possibly due to climate change." In the Gala...
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Editorial: The expensive risk College of DuPage has placed on taxpayersApr 28, 2018 2:00 pm - It was almost three years ago that we warned that the College of DuPage Board was risking the public's money in what we described as its "obsessive and oddly venomous" f...
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Same old, same old IllinoisApr 28, 2018 1:00 am - Today I received my copy of West Chicago's municipal bulletin, informing me that the city's property tax levy is going up by 2.1 percent. The city blames the state gover...
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Where to find truth in media smorgasbord?Mar 26, 2018 1:00 am - We can, if we wish, adjust the brightness and volume on our TV sets. But what if we could also adjust the political slant we see and hear just by turning a special knob?...
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Video gaming bad for West ChicagoMar 15, 2018 1:00 am - On March 20, West Chicago will have an opportunity to vote on a referendum allowing video gaming (gambling) in our city. Yet on July 13, 2017, the city of West Chicago ...