Editorials
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Editorial: Tourism report reminds us to treasure suburbs :Aug 02, 2017 11:00 pm - With a hefty increase in the state income tax, a state government that barely functions, a new penny-an-ounce tax on soda in Cook County and news that Illinois ranks sec...
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Editorial: In search of O'Hare Airport noise reliefAug 02, 2017 1:00 am - If you live near O'Hare International Airport, the term "Fly Quiet" may be a misnomer. But when it comes to overnight flights, it's an important term that is in need of ...
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Editorial: Rauner, Madigan, Cullerton must seek school compromiseAug 01, 2017 11:00 pm - Are we headed for another standoff? In one corner: Illinois' Democrat-led legislature that tucked a requirement for a new school funding formula into a groundbreaking st...
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Editorial: Bicentennial is time to learn about KaskaskiaJul 30, 2017 11:00 pm - In naming downstate Kaskaskia Island as the starting point to Illinois' 200th birthday celebration, the Bicentennial committee has put a stamp of approval on downstate R...
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Editorial: Cook County overreaches with unfair beverage taxJul 29, 2017 2:00 pm - Here's the problem we have with the beverage tax that Cook County is trying to impose on all of us who stop at the supermarket or drive through a fast-food restaurant. W...
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Editorial: Flood of 2017 can't dampen suburbs' heart, volunteer spiritJul 26, 2017 11:00 pm - We often see the full measure of what community means when things seem at their worst. It's neighbor helping neighbor. It's residents and businesses giving their time an...
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Editorial: Rauner should sign juvenile records bill nowJul 25, 2017 11:00 pm - As Gov. Bruce Rauner waits for reluctant Democratic legislative leaders to send him an education funding bill, he has another bill already on his desk that needs signing...
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Editorial: Legislative leaders hold only hope for school fundingJul 24, 2017 11:00 pm - Today, 177 state lawmakers are traipsing to Springfield - assuming they all heed the governor's call - to try to forge a solution to school funding legislation in time f...
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Editorial: The deepening prospect that classes won't open on timeJul 23, 2017 11:00 pm - It's increasingly beginning to look as if classes at many schools around Illinois will not open on time - and systems that do open on time likely will have to close at s...
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Editorial: Rauner, Madigan duel; legislators flee in frustrationJul 22, 2017 2:00 pm - Elaine Nekritz has always struck us as one of the lights in the darkness, a state legislator whose heart is in the right place, who got involved in politics not out of a...