Articles filed under Opinion
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Today’s editorial cartoonJun 07, 2026 4:00 am -
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The right thing costs youJun 07, 2026 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Marc Munroe Dion: “If you're trying to decide what to do, and you only have two choices, do the thing that's hardest,” my pop used to tell me. “The right thing is always the hardest thing.”
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How to truly crack down on ‘teen takeovers’Jun 07, 2026 4:00 am - I want to thank the Naperville Police Department for protecting the downtown area last week. After months of “teen takeovers” bringing chaos and danger to what is typical...
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Illinois’ latest budget asks taxpayers to pay more for Springfield’s spendingJun 06, 2026 12:24 pm - Year after year, lawmakers wait until the final hours of session to assemble massive budget packages that put businesses and residents on the hook for spending that few people actually reviewed. The process lacks accountability and can involve gimmicky maneuvering.
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Daily Herald opinion: Enough with the political blame: Lawmakers must summon urgency and leadership or lose the BearsJun 06, 2026 8:36 am - Daily Herald Opinion: The most disappointing, and most useless, thing about the reaction among Illinois leaders to the Chicago Bears’ statement Friday that the franchise is advancing its plans to move to Hammond, Indiana, is that it was all about blame and nothing about what to do.
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On immigration realitiesJun 05, 2026 3:40 pm - “A new short read by Migration Policy Institute analysts Julia Gelatt, Doris Meissner and Andrew Selee makes the case that a consequential question is being obscured: wha...
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Racial separatismJun 05, 2026 3:39 pm - Since the Supreme Court ruled that existing racial gerrymandering is not legal and should be stopped, that decision has been broadly condemned by those who benefited from...
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Behind a hot story, there’s a lot of fire you don’t seeJun 05, 2026 4:00 am - For several years, we used to publish in a monthly rotation thumbnail profiles of individual members of our newsroom staff. The short stories provided a reporter or edito...
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The man at the corner with a bucketJun 05, 2026 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich:
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Yellow dogs and red linesJun 05, 2026 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Keith Raffel: “Yellow dog” voters are back big-time. Who?