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Mayor Johnson's attention is always elsewhere.

Repeat officers and the Fraternal Order of Police.

Mayor Johnson's mind has been poisoned with progressive ideology.

Odds are Mayor 6.6 is a one-term blunder.

The CTU's effort to block Illinois participation in new federal scholarship program latest effort to deny Chicago children a quality education.

Is Lightfoot's "ICE Accountability Project" a shallow bid for attention or a signal she intends to return to politics?

Chicago Business Barometer issues another warning, and not a hollow one.

Another obscene giveaway.

NAIS schools reinforce DEI priorities while “Alpha” schools compete on results.

What does Mike Quigley have to offer Chicago?

Preckwinkle has the power to choose, and she always chooses losers.

Chicago is not short on commissions. It is short on candor.

Those who can’t do, teach. And those who can’t teach…govern. This must stop.

That crime is down in Chicago is undeniable. The question is who is responsible and how it can be kept on a downward trajectory.

How Chicago ended up governed by people unfit to govern anything.

Reform has been kicked down the road.

Beware of mayoral candidates from out of town.

As long as the CTU controls the Chicago Board of Education, property taxes will continue to rise, student achievement will decline, school choice will disappear, and teachers will remain unaccountable.

Mayor Johnson's "plan" to address crime on the CTA is embarrassingly amateurish.

Ten resolutions to change Chicago.

Despite his pledge to uplift Black residents, Johnson's policies are hurting Black residents most.

Secretary of State should face scrutiny for his donations, illegals obtaining licenses.

Garbage in the 5th floor, garbage out the budget outbox.

It is doubtful Mayor Johnson will get his Head Tax, but will get most everything else in his budget, including a CTU contract bailout.

Shooting incidents at Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony should convince city to adopt revised curfew measure.

The first duty of government is to keep people safe.

The non-stop headlines cannot help but evoke the classic account of stupidity, futility, and doom.

It's time to put up or shut up.

Mayor Johnson's latest budget is a slapdash pastiche of high taxes, higher fees, and a bailout of CPS.

It must be getting claustrophobic over at the CTU Center.

Progressives made the Blue Line attack possible. It's time to end their stranglehold over Chicago.

Woman set aflame on CTA train a grim reminder Chicago voters are best served to keep an eye on Cook County judicial elections.

The system, once again, fails the victim of crime.

If Chicago residents are curious why their taxes keep rising, they should look no further than Chicago Public Schools

Five ways the new State’s Attorney has righted the Cook County prosecutor’s office.

The SAFE-T Act has tipped the scales of justice in favor of violent criminals.

It's unlikely Mayor Johnson's social media tax would survive a court challenge.

Chicago's future looks bleak, says The Economist.

Windy City's lawsuit lottery: How suing Chicago Police has become a billion-dollar racket enriching criminals and trial lawyers alike.

It's time to simplify Chicago's property tax system.

It’s time to try the unfit-to-serve criminals who misrule us — first in the court of public opinion, and then the federal courts.

Public safety on the CTA requires more than enforcing a smoking ban.

Our top 10 flops, idiots, and losers in Chicago politics.

Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

There's a reason Mayor Johnson stalled the release of Ernst & Young's Financial and Strategic Reform Options report.

The blame for CPD overtime should fall entirely on Lightfoot, Johnson, and Pritzker.

The federal government can do much to improve the lives of Chicagoans. This requires focus and discipline. Pritzker & Johnson want to divert public attention from their failures.

OIG reveals something shady went on in the mayor's office.

Head tax will only add to the uncertainty in Chicago's shaky economy.

The affluent and corporations are fleeing Chicago.

The shots that rang out last week resemble those fired on Fort Sumter which started the Civil War.

While city and state leaders stoke false fears of an ICE invasion, they ignore Chicago leads the nation in school age youth murdered and wounded.

With Democrats unable to contain their impulse to raise taxes, Chicago should be prepared for Delgado's tax plan to return.

Chuy García decided to pull a fast one. The Democrats may say there are no kings — but in Chicago, power is inherited all the same.

It’s hard to imagine a more mind-boggling confession of the mayor's ignorance of basic economics.

Progressive policies are swapping out middle- and upper-income families for the poor and illegal migrants

Yeah, we do have illegal aliens, Mr. Mayor.

Democrats never seem to get it right on housing.

Going back to the future.

Will Chicago rise again? It’s up to us.

Ignoring Chicago's unsafe drinking water has devastating consequences.

How the election for president of the Board of Education will affect schools in Chicago.

When WBEZ and The Chicago Sun-Times start swooning over City Hall, you can bet the Chicago Contrarian isn’t buying it.

Johnson's budget proposal only worsens Chicago's financial situation.

Unshackle the private sector and release their animal spirits.

Brandon Johnson's "ICE-Free Zone" executive order is hollow and performative.

New federal data proves America’s crime surge is concentrated in cities — and no city has done more to invite it than ours.

It’s detainment, not affordable housing.

The curious case of Eman Abdelhadi and Sharone R. Mitchell, Jr.

Chicago and Illinois have declared war on the federal government over immigration enforcement. What happens next?

Obstructing justice is a crime. Chicago is guilty as charged.

What does a proper apology look like?

All the world is a protest stage for the agitprop airhead.

Personnel is Policy

Tier 2 bill causes the fissure separating Mayor Johnson and Governor Pritzker to widen.

You got a problem with that?

A case study on how prominent elected officials do real damage to the public interest.

In epic flub, Mayor Johnson tells the world his true view of police.

Chicago can be on the forefront of a source of energy with close to zero carbon emissions and a secure supply.

Chicago's 40th Ward deserves a leader, not an attention-seeking rat.

Chicago’s restaurant industry is on the brink. The city’s economy and its character is about to collapse.

Can you Smollett too?

Like his two terms in the White House, the Obama Center has turned out to be a disaster.

Despite guilty plea, calling for book ban, Austin's La Shawn Ford seeks to replace the hapless Danny Davis in Congress.

Chicago residents are the big losers in Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard to Memphis.

Chicago media is playing a considerable role in the public's negative perception of Chicago Police.

Why Chicago shouldn't finance a new stadium for Reinsdorf or Ishbia.

Chicago has had enough of the Jackson family.

From Du Sable to “Mayor 6.6” and the “Notorious SDG,” we’re coming up on the end of the fiscal road.

The CTU's prime concern is increasing its political influence, not students' learning or well-being.

Chicagoland’s Latin School, Francis Parker, and Culver jump on the NAIS lemming bandwagon.

Enterprise zones serve as investment bait for communities left behind.

Mayor Johnson, Governor Pritzker externalize their failures by blaming President Trump.

Pritzker, Johnson, and the art of defending the indefensible.

Mayor Johnson summons his activist pals to rage on the streets.

In her two terms in Congress, the Humboldt Park native has established a record of failure.

The National Guard is unnecessary, but Trump should flood Chicago streets with federal agents.

Mayor Johnson’s campaign to gut school board safeguards is a fiscal death wish for Chicago.

There will be no bailout for CPS.

What has emerged in Chicago is a culture of lying.

The Tribune's coverage of Immigration Enforcement isn't journalism. It's propaganda.

Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

ICE is exposing who Chicago "reporters" really are.

When WBEZ and The Chicago Sun-Times start swooning over City Hall, you can bet the Chicago Contrarian isn’t buying it.

Social justice activism has overtaken journalism at the Sun-Times.

Chicago media is playing a considerable role in the public's negative perception of Chicago Police.

Runaway lawsuits, progressive policy failures, and billion-dollar jury awards are bankrupting our criminal justice system.

Buyout offers hint at uncertainty for Tribune reporters.

The Sun-Times became the propaganda wing of Chicago's progressive movement.

Are there any smart people at the intersection of Mayor Johnson and Chicago media?

Without accurate and complete information, civilization fails.

Jack Lucey visited the epicenter of the DNC protests. This is what he learned.

Sun-Times editorial board member and columnist reveals newspaper's dirty little secret.

The DNC will be a letdown for Chicago in more than one way.

Chicago's navigation system is faulty.

Black History Month to take a back seat to Chi-town's contribution to the Final Solution.

Journalism crashed and burned this year.

Mayor Brandon Johnson's 21st century Hooverville.

By depriving cops of union rights, is Chicago’s radical Democratic Party clearing the way for chaos at the Democratic Convention?

Part II.

Part I of II.

Will legally dubious torture commission finally go on trial?

Alone in the big City of Chicago.

Taking Chicago's pulse on illegals in the Windy City.

Hamas' carnage against Israel allows Mayor Johnson, DSAs to retail anti-Semitism.

City attorneys hang detectives out to dry, again‍.

Some are afraid to lie, others are afraid to admit the truth.

Concern over infectious disease abandoned as migrants stuffed in police districts.

In another controversy, Kim Foxx is scrutinized for refusing to comply with FOIAs

A labor victory limiting the power of a kangaroo court investigating Chicago police has unionized reporters scrambling.

"The Soul of Chicago is in all of us. That's why I made it my life's purpose to serve the greatest city in the world"

Opportunity to hold Chicago media accountable for manufactured narrative slips away.

For Chicago’s warped media, some sex crimes are just sexier than others.

Will Chicago aldermen rubber stamp settlements from exonerations cases under Gov. Pat Quinn?

There are perils to empowering the state to pick economic winners and losers.

Pushing the media’s anti-police mythology, Heather Cherone ignores staggering evidence of corruption in Cook County prosecutor’s office.

Chicago media is losing its grip on their audience.

Mayor Johnson’s conversation with 60s radical, new deputy of community safety reveal much about Chicago’s future.

Generative AI to encourage the mostly peaceful use of city parks and streets and insure riots and looting are never covered by the Chicago Tribune.

Nomination of former Foxx aide for U.S. Attorney's office should raise a few eyebrows.

“I think Eric Zorn didn't have any understanding of the facts of that case and did not have a basis to be writing the things that he wrote.”

Some odd twists and turns lead to the release of a convicted child killer.

Chicago’s anti-police movement looks to notch another victory over police.

It was not a good year for the press in the Windy City.

South Side officer Michelle Murphy gets last word after 10-year betrayal by every institution in Chicago.

Chicago City Council embraces bizarre claims of radical journalism group.

With an obedient media protecting the most corrupt elected official in the country, Chicago and Illinois are now doomed.

Shocking about face on behalf of two men accused of double murder could be the worst corruption under Foxx.

A rare bright spot in Chicago journalism emerged.

After shameless coverage, CBS, Dave Savini, every institution in the city failed officer who almost gave her life in service to Chicago.

Activist media gets a cash infusion, Eric Zorn targets CWB Chicago.

WGN’s Andrew Schroedter jumps on the Kim Foxx bandwagon.

As rioters get a pass from Kim Foxx, Chicago hands down ludicrous penalties for officers who were victims of 2020 ambushes

For top prosecutor and a club of reporters at the Chicago Tribune, one hand seems to wash the other.

Once again, allegations raise the question: Who does Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx work for?

Chicago media bringing the war back home after California prosecutor's recall.

Fate of CPD Officers Coughlin and Torres reveal why the Tyshon Brownlees of Chicago run free.

Attorney launches broadsides against Illinois Attorney General and Cook County prosecutor over exoneration of convicted police killer Jackie Wilson.

The Cook County prosecutor and the bomb throwers.

A modest proposal to finance vote buying.

Did the demise of American media start in Chicago’s pretentious alternative press?

By all means, Governor Pritzker, let’s look at everything that “has occurred” in the exoneration industry's takeover of the governor's office.

The size of Mayor Lightfoot’s “Command Post” comes under scrutiny.

A marriage made in progressive heaven, former Chicago Tribune reporter Dan Hinkel joins the Better Government Association.

With Jackie Wilson’s path to freedom through Torture Commission under fire in federal court, should Kim Foxx be prosecuting him on charges of beating woman?

Though Chicago’s biased media reliably reported on Jackie Wilson’s journey to freedom, it ignored his recent arrest.

Who do Tribune journalists Megan Crepeau and Jason Meisner really work for?

Progressive laws, policies certain to create a hellish summer for Chicago’s black communities.

Chicago an example of how crucial stories alleging misconduct against young women can be buried?

As Chicago explodes in violence, Chicago’s media continues to spoon feed residents pure fantasy.

Hyper local social media site Nextdoor censors Chicago users on education, crime, and political commentary.

How a broken door transformed into a seismic event and a seven-figure settlement.

Let's hold off on popping open the bubbly and swinging from the chandeliers.

Does delayed ruling in fatal police shooting indicate another scandal is brewing at COPA?

It's time for the 43rd Ward Alderwoman to take a moment for introspection.

The death of the political interview.

The worst has yet to come.

Progressive madness engulfs Jefferson Park.

A disgraced media tries to keep its doomed narratives alive.

The Chicago Sun-Times advances Progressive disarmament.

WGN’s Ben Bradley serves as press secretary and reporter during webinar on crime in Cook County.

Walter Jones lived up to highest standards under immense pressure in key murder case.

Courts defying city's, state's politically motivated police reform entities greeted with media silence.

Attorney challenges legitimacy of state commission that paved way for release of Jackie Wilson for his role in 1982 murder of two Chicago police officers.

Chaos reigns in Cook County prosecutor’s office.

Despite problems, Matt Rosenberg's book asserts there is a glimmer of hope for the Windy City.

To overcome a final legal hurdle, Jackie Wilson's lawsuit requires support from activist journalists like Megan Crepeau ‍ ‍

Silence on destructive behavior and the bullying of city employees into compliance.

Chicago Tribune’s Jason Meisner heads up activist media seemingly aimed at poisoning the jury pool.

Rulings by Judge James Obbish becoming more and more suspicious.

Matthew Hendrickson's article on Cook County prosecutors facing off with police in Serenity Broughton murder case leaves many unanswered questions.

Well-known opinion columnist virtue signals his disgust.

Area 5 commander sets record straight on murder investigation, rebukes Kim Foxx, Sun-Times coverage of case.

Will new leadership at the Tribune plot a new tack or stick with a failing strategy?

Cuomo’s release of Weather Underground member David Gilbert reveals radicalized Democratic Party.

Despite outpouring of grief for slain officer, some wounds persist and may be beyond healing.

Despite slaughter of the innocent, Chicago’s unified progressives hold the party line.

Chicago police officers are all alone.

The CTU's effort to block Illinois participation in new federal scholarship program latest effort to deny Chicago children a quality education.

The CTU continues to prioritize left-wing politics over learning, acquiring knowledge, critical thinking, problem-solving skills.

NAIS schools reinforce DEI priorities while “Alpha” schools compete on results.

Those who can’t do, teach. And those who can’t teach…govern. This must stop.

As long as the CTU controls the Chicago Board of Education, property taxes will continue to rise, student achievement will decline, school choice will disappear, and teachers will remain unaccountable.

It's time to put up or shut up.

If Chicago residents are curious why their taxes keep rising, they should look no further than Chicago Public Schools

While city and state leaders stoke false fears of an ICE invasion, they ignore Chicago leads the nation in school age youth murdered and wounded.

How the election for president of the Board of Education will affect schools in Chicago.

Johnson's budget proposal only worsens Chicago's financial situation.

You got a problem with that?

The CTU's prime concern is increasing its political influence, not students' learning or well-being.

Chicagoland’s Latin School, Francis Parker, and Culver jump on the NAIS lemming bandwagon.

There will be no bailout for CPS.

Come for the masterpieces, stay for the struggle session.

The race to lead the School Board is wide open and the mayor's favorability still stinks.

Poor families should be afforded the same opportunities others have in superior private school alternatives to failing neighborhood schools.

Stacy Davis Gates warns of the Confederacy's return to rally her base — but her actions have created a school system the Old South might well admire.

How duty of obedience and care collapsed in Chicago’s nonprofits — letting DEI dogma eclipse mission, law, and accountability.

Poor Chicago Public School children are systematically and deliberately denied their Constitutional Right to a quality education. It’s time for a Federal Consent Decree to restore this right.

Chicago State University has failed at everything.

The inside story of how America's premier prep schools abandoned merit for ideology and excellence for equity

On May 16, CTU members should avoid the polls.

CTU’s opposition to school choice combined with its assault on public school standards and accountability has created an apartheid school system in which poor families, overwhelmingly black and Latino, are trapped in failing schools.

The CTU got a raise, the taxpayers paid the bill, and students lost again.

CPS should balance its budget to ensures bulk of $30K spent per student reaches schools while weaning itself from city subsidies

If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always got.

Rather than championing high standards, accountability and expanded quality school choices, Mayor Brandon Johnson and Governor J.B. Pritzker are strengthening teacher unions.

Breach of non-profit board duties puts board members at personal financial risk.

Lessons from the parental trenches in admissions questions and school tours.

A student transformation from behind grade level to scholar-athlete.

As long as the CTU commands the levers of power over CPS, minority students will suffer most.

Mayor Johnson sacks school’s chief for his teachers' union funders.

Saving CPS is not an easy task by any means, but our schools can be returned to centers of learning.

How progressive lawfare created a moral vacuum in our schools that destroyed the character of our most vulnerable.

Illinois is first in tax burden and last in equity and has residents of all demographics leaving in record numbers.

Scandals continue at another affiliated National Association of Independent Schools institution in the Philadelphia area.

The commission’s recommendations for the highest funded university system in the nation deliberately discriminates against white and Asian students while doing nothing to address inequity for low income families

Preventing the CORE caucus from exercising complete control over CPS hovers over Board of Education elections far more than anything else.

The DEI self-destruct sequence that’s been triggered at formerly elite prep schools may provide a hint

CTU leaders are responsible for school closings and the enrollment decline that will force many more schools to close

Issuing outrageous demands and devouring a larger portion of tax revenue, CTU has become an existential threat to education, organized labor.

The pathway to Chicago and CPS overcoming unprecedented budget deficits requires the political will to confront a CTU determined to bankrupt the city and schools.

In either intent or outcome, racism is the defining feature of Stacy Davis Gates and Mayor Brandon Johnson's education policies and minorities are hurt most.

The K-12 DEI hangover is just setting in, but the boards at elite Chicago schools still lack the spine to fire progressive activist school heads.

Chicago requires more than a marketing strategy.

The letter of the day is B: Bureaucracy, benefits, and billions.

Black History Month to take a back seat to Chi-town's contribution to the Final Solution.

For school choice to be realized, parents must create a mass movement.

The Innovations shooting should raise questions about where charter schools are located.

What the CTU seeks is complete and unchallenged domination over education.

Misplaced priorities are a feature of Johnson's term.

Illegals take positions of prominence in the Windy City.

Who will have the final say on Chicago's budget?

School withheld diplomas and transcripts from two seniors tossing them into college limbo, ruining their graduation.

Sixth grade Jewish day school curriculum “drives a wedge between parents and children” around gender identity.

Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson's reckless plan to asphyxiate Chicago.

As corporate executives are named in expanded suit, violations of state law and school policy appear “clear cut” in case against school.

NAISS and NAMBLA to partner with “progressive” school in Chicago.

Francis Parker updates a classic, the preppy handbook, for the modern private school era.

What $40K per year gets your children in the Windy City.

Depravity, “rules for thee and not for me” and bullying culture appear systemic at Chicago’s most elite private school.

CPS preaches pronouns and the 72 genders, as Chicago kids make non-binary ninja jokes.

CPS shared a welcome letter with parents but neglected to share that all kids will have an opportunity to learn radical gender ideology and Critical Race Theory.

After embracing progressive ideology, Chicago private school suffers 23 percent drop in enrollment.

Academic excellence, greater diversity and value exists across the border in Indiana.

Teacher and former DEI head at Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School Johanna Thompson continues abusive taunts as religion takes a back seat to progressive ideology and bullying of students.

Returning CORE to power at the Chicago Teachers Union will deepen CTU's descent into radicalism.

Identity politics, selective bullying enforcement and DEI-based anti-Semitism may be to blame for the lack of response to a child’s pleas for help.

New CPS proposal will further peck away at Select Enrollment admissions standards in the 2023-2024 school year to further “equity.”

CORE’s shadowy past should cast doubt its next slating will be a democratic exercise.

Much is at stake for Sharkey, Davis Gates in May CTU elections.

Chicago Contrarian analysis links rising violent crime with the Chicago Teachers Union.

Progressive litmus test rattles elite Chicago school admissions

Making it impossible to fail in Chicago Public Schools.

Are you now or have you ever been against Critical Race Theory?

Racism in schools: From the Virginia governor’s election to Latin and Francis Parker.

Can Chicago's Catholic schools be saved from extinction?

Despite problems, Matt Rosenberg's book asserts there is a glimmer of hope for the Windy City.

Progressive politics is the new religion at a “Chicagoland Jewish institution.”

A recall election is the emergency break Chicago requires.

Chicago must stop the bleed, stabilize itself and implement a growth strategy.

The CTU is living its dream.

As critical race theory makes inroads, Chicago schools condone bigotry by progressive educators.

The face of failure.

The CTU has hijacked education and CPS has allowed it to happen.

Parents’ experience showcases lessons on addressing harassment which are relevant nationwide.

It's not white flight. It's more complex than the last time and it's just beginning.

Does the CPS verify residency?

A win for the CTU is always a loss for Chicago public school students.

Non-partisanship is DOA (dead on arrival) at Chicago schools.

University of Illinois at Chicago research fails to analyze and interpret basic statistical data.

Up for reappointment, Cook County Public Defender embraces corrosive immigration policies.

The free exchange of ideas in schools is a relic of a bygone era.

The CTU plays the race, sexism cards and loses.

Pure coincidence, right? Hardly.

Pupils need to lift themselves from their own predicaments.

The Chicago Teachers Union focuses on everything but teaching and learning.

The line between CTU member and political activist has become shadowy.

That crime is down in Chicago is undeniable. The question is who is responsible and how it can be kept on a downward trajectory.

Shooting incidents at Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony should convince city to adopt revised curfew measure.

It's time to put up or shut up.

It's time to simplify Chicago's property tax system.

Public safety on the CTA requires more than enforcing a smoking ban.

The shots that rang out last week resemble those fired on Fort Sumter which started the Civil War.

While city and state leaders stoke false fears of an ICE invasion, they ignore Chicago leads the nation in school age youth murdered and wounded.

Progressive policies are swapping out middle- and upper-income families for the poor and illegal migrants

Democrats never seem to get it right on housing.

Going back to the future.

Unshackle the private sector and release their animal spirits.

New federal data proves America’s crime surge is concentrated in cities — and no city has done more to invite it than ours.

It’s detainment, not affordable housing.

Obstructing justice is a crime. Chicago is guilty as charged.

Chicago can be on the forefront of a source of energy with close to zero carbon emissions and a secure supply.

Chicago’s restaurant industry is on the brink. The city’s economy and its character is about to collapse.

Can you Smollett too?

Like his two terms in the White House, the Obama Center has turned out to be a disaster.

Chicago residents are the big losers in Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard to Memphis.

Chicago media is playing a considerable role in the public's negative perception of Chicago Police.

Why Chicago shouldn't finance a new stadium for Reinsdorf or Ishbia.

Enterprise zones serve as investment bait for communities left behind.

Come for the masterpieces, stay for the struggle session.

Mass shootings in Chicago can be prevented if we can return to proactive policing.

Crack down on gangs.

Gun seizures, brawls, and drunkenness at Pride after parties says Chicago should consider intervening.

How duty of obedience and care collapsed in Chicago’s nonprofits — letting DEI dogma eclipse mission, law, and accountability.

The mayor continues to fib on affordable housing.

To save the CTA, the transit system should shrink the size of its workforce.

Superintendent of Police Larry Snelling and State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke have made the difference.

Funding to violence interruption groups is subsidizing gang activity on Chicago's streets.

Arresting and citing teens for violations of public order is more effective than letters home to mom and dad.

A verdict has been rendered: Studies show a police presence is a deterrent to crime.

A nuisance ordinance is a good place to start in the effort to restore public order in Chicago.

Hopefully, the new boss of Choose Chicago is up to the job.

How does Johnson plan to end the insanity downtown if he refuses to admit what it is?

Rep. Will Guzzardi gets clever titling a bill legalizing prostitution.

Lawlessness downtown and Mayor Brandon Johnson’s dangerous delusions.

Chicago is a sick city.

If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always got.

Affordable housing can be built without raising taxes.

It will fall on the Trump White House to stabilize the Windy City.

ICE is here and the press is playing it as if everyone in Chicago has something to fear.

Removal of criminal illegals, not mass deportations, is the aim of federal agents in Chicago.

Breach of non-profit board duties puts board members at personal financial risk.

Lessons from the parental trenches in admissions questions and school tours.

Alderman William Hall talks too much.

A student transformation from behind grade level to scholar-athlete.

The Trump administration decides to adopt the motto that it can change the world here in our hometown of Chicago.

What Englewood residents need most is officers on the street.

CPS and city finances have Mayor Brandon Johnson submerged in debt crises. A third financial crisis at the CTA is imminent and could sink the mayor.

Crime has overwhelmed the 12th Ward and its alderman.

Meet the useless alderman of Chicago's 46th Ward.

How progressive lawfare created a moral vacuum in our schools that destroyed the character of our most vulnerable.

Illinois is first in tax burden and last in equity and has residents of all demographics leaving in record numbers.

Honoring the life and death of ShotSpotter.

Five reasons why Chicago condo and coop values are dropping off a cliff.

With the right steps taken and a sufficient budget, Chicago can have a fire department residents deserve.

Moving custody of the Cook County EM program to the court system invites disaster.

The single, greatest obstacle to more affordable housing is Democratic Socialist aldermen.

Perhaps Alderman Maria Hadden should move to Wisconsin.

Yes, the speed limit ordinance is about imposing new taxes, higher fines, and penalties.

“Sanctuary City” blank check spending largely to blame for the tax increase as condo market spirals further down.

Preventing the CORE caucus from exercising complete control over CPS hovers over Board of Education elections far more than anything else.

What is happening in Humboldt Park under fringe progressive Jessie Fuentes?

There is a reason Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez is the patron saint of Chicago's gangs.

What's really going on with mail-in voting in Chicago?

Jack Lucey visited the epicenter of the DNC protests. This is what he learned.

When will Chicago residents receive the same consideration as Democratic elite?

If common sense is so common, why does Alderman Andre Vasquez have none?

The congestion tax is a ploy to indulge the CTU.

Espousing conservative ideals, speaking at GOP convention triggers powerful backlash against South Side pastor.

In an interview with Brandon Pope discussing gunshot technology, Johnson told whopper after whopper.

The time for Chicagoans to grumble is long overdue.

Instead of growing government, Brandon Johnson should revive volunteerism.

Is Mayor Johnson's ideological fixation with the false promise of progressivism hindering a South Side group's fight against poverty?

The first step to solving part of homelessness begins with treatment.

The cost of a Chicago-owned grocery store will be borne by taxpayers.

White Sox ownership should pay for new stadium or leave.

Award winning Jewish musician reports that despite “no threats of violence,” an “opaque decision” outside of his control was made to call off event in a city marked by increasing anti-Semitism.

Chicago is not a safe city.

Chicago requires more than a marketing strategy.

Bucktown, Wicker Park, Logan Square and Ukrainian Village crime numbers spiral out of control, causing residents to flee and boutiques to close as high-end property values start to decline.

The letter of the day is B: Bureaucracy, benefits, and billions.

Chicago's most prosperous have made the most special and meaningful contributions to the city.

Black History Month to take a back seat to Chi-town's contribution to the Final Solution.

Taking Chicago's pulse on crime in the Windy City.

How new laws will affect children and parenting.

The Innovations shooting should raise questions about where charter schools are located.

Condominiums and houses are down 25 percent or more since previous transactions.

Lawlessness will continue under Clayton Harris.

Mayor Brandon Johnson's 21st century Hooverville.

Does that gun have to go off and kill me, you, my daughter or wife?

Guns are not the problem, Mr. Mayor.

Alone in the big City of Chicago.

With rising anti-Semitism in the Windy City, does the urban equation still add up for the 85,000 Jews in Chicago?

With CPD relieved of a vital mechanism to fight crime, gangs will march across Chicago.

Mayor Brandon Johnson aims to turn fiction into reality.

43rd Ward alderman's proposal is driven by the immature impulses of a utopian fantasist.

"The Soul of Chicago is in all of us. That's why I made it my life's purpose to serve the greatest city in the world"

Chicago Business Barometer issues another warning, and not a hollow one.

It's time to simplify Chicago's property tax system.

Head tax will only add to the uncertainty in Chicago's shaky economy.

The affluent and corporations are fleeing Chicago.

With Democrats unable to contain their impulse to raise taxes, Chicago should be prepared for Delgado's tax plan to return.

It’s hard to imagine a more mind-boggling confession of the mayor's ignorance of basic economics.

Personnel is Policy

Why Chicago shouldn't finance a new stadium for Reinsdorf or Ishbia.

Job loss, restaurant closures are the hallmarks of the end of tipped wages, and it's going to become worse.

What Chicago can learn from Utah.

Pritzker joins Mayor Johnson regarding economically illiterate and strategically unsound budgets.

Illinois is first in tax burden and last in equity and has residents of all demographics leaving in record numbers.

Five reasons why Chicago condo and coop values are dropping off a cliff.

The single, greatest obstacle to more affordable housing is Democratic Socialist aldermen.

White Sox ownership should pay for new stadium or leave.

Chicago should brace itself for a raft of onerous new taxes.

Mayor Johnson, progressive allies are always looking for revenue.

Chicago requires more than a marketing strategy.

Bucktown, Wicker Park, Logan Square and Ukrainian Village crime numbers spiral out of control, causing residents to flee and boutiques to close as high-end property values start to decline.

Condominiums and houses are down 25 percent or more since previous transactions.

Mayor Brandon Johnson's 21st century Hooverville.

Mayor, City Council hand another victory to organized labor.

Mayor Brandon Johnson aims to turn fiction into reality.

The Cloud Tax is doubly averse for Chicago businesses.

Who will have the final say on Chicago's budget?

There are perils to empowering the state to pick economic winners and losers.

Three separate shooting incidents in three days might be the last straw for a rising number of Boystown, East Lakeview, and Wrigleyville residents.

Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson's reckless plan to asphyxiate Chicago.

A business guy does “win/loss” analysis for why he left Chicago starting with a decline of the lakefront.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot holds a clearance sale.

Alderman is depriving the 35th Ward of its vitality.

Looting a special TIF district to pay for equity.

Chicago area executives shun downtown as violent crime climbs 37 percent year-over-year.

It's not just large corporations leaving the Windy City.

A critique of Mayor Lightfoot’s “We Will Chicago.”

Mayor Lightfoot ignored hedge fund manager's pleas for reconciliation.

Chicago's 6th Ward alderman abhors capitalism, unless it’s crony capitalism.

Lori Lightfoot’s appearance at Management Conference triggers cognitive dissonance.

It’s time to put the brakes on shakedown settlements in Chicago.

With vote of support for scandal-ridden head of police oversight agency, Aldermen Osterman and Smith ensure decline of their wards and Chicago.

Northside business executives plot their strategies for escape and evasion in 2022.

Few aldermen are as disconnected from constituents or reality than Democratic Socialist Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez.

Though noble, UBI is part of a problem rather than a solution.

Families and retirees are leaving Chicago with empty, unlisted homes behind.

Silence on destructive behavior and the bullying of city employees into compliance.

A recall election is the emergency break Chicago requires.

Chicago must stop the bleed, stabilize itself and implement a growth strategy.

“Being the mayor of the third largest city in the country, that's humbling, but it also gives me incredible hope.”

What will fill McCormick Place's space?

Changing office routines and crime are two of the major headwinds for the commercial real estate market in Chicago, even with fully lifted state and city restrictions.

Evolving civility: an opportunity to contribute to the global challenge of building better cities, right here in Chicago.

It's not white flight. It's more complex than the last time and it's just beginning.

Executives are worried about the legality and business impacts of “woke” discrimination in hiring and promotion.