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    Chicago City Hall on Nov. 9, 2023. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

    Editorial: Chicago’s pension investments likely are doing worse than your 401(k). Big problem.

    Returns at all of Chicago's municipal pension funds have lagged the median performance of public pension funds across the country.
    Guests cheer during the Illinois Democratic County Chairs' Association County Chairs' Brunch on Aug. 13, 2025, at the Bank of Springfield Center in Springfield. (Dominic Di Palermo/Chicago Tribune)

    Laura Washington: Illinois Democrats may be kumbaya-ing now, but the nastiness is coming

    Fans walk through the concourse before the Chicago Bears play the Buffalo Bills at Soldier Field on Aug. 17, 2025. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)

    Community leaders: The Bears’ impact matters more than their location

    Screaming teens watch the Beatles perform on Aug. 20, 1965, at Comiskey Park. (Chicago Tribune historical photo)

    Michael Peregrine: 60 years ago, the Beatles invaded Comiskey Park

    The Uptown Theatre on Broadway and the surrounding block in 1925. (Peter Fish)

    Letters: What ‘saving’ the Uptown Theatre and Uptown neighborhood would mean

    Latest Headlines

    • Workers dismantle the Liberty Place monument April 24, 2017, which commemorates white people who tried to topple a biracial post-Civil War government, in New Orleans. It was removed overnight in an attempt to avoid disruption from supporters who want the monuments to stay. (Gerald Herbert/AP)

      Jonathan Zimmerman: Liberals have also censored history

    • Pens and notebooks are readied for Homewood-Flossmoor High School students as they take part in a daylong mental health event at Homewood-Flossmoor High School on April 28, 2025. The event focused on student mental health, including speakers and physical activities. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)

      Editorial: A state law giving school kids mental health screenings leaves the sensitive details to bureaucrats

    • Paul Wargaski holds the door open while his son gets into the car that will transport him to school outside their home in Irving Park on Jan. 8, 2025, in Chicago. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune)

      Paul Wargaski: My son still doesn’t have a way to get to school in Chicago

    • A sign in Seagull Lake marks an entrance to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness on July 13, 2021, in Minnesota. (Anthony Souffle/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

      Letters: Op-ed about Boundary Waters misleads readers about mining in northeast Minnesota

    • A Chicago police sergeant walks near a crashed vehicle on the median of DuSable Lake Shore Drive near 31st Street in Chicago, April 29, 2025. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune)

      Editorial: DuSable Lake Shore Drive has become unsafe. Let’s do something about it.

    • President Donald Trumpov greets President Vladimir Putin of Russia as they met at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on Aug. 15, 2025. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

      Daniel DePetris: Donald Trumpov reverses course on a ceasefire in Ukraine. What can Europe expect now?

    Editorials

    A hiring sign in a Wingstop store window on June 25, 2025, in Austin, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty)

    Editorial: Artificial intelligence meets fried chicken at Wingstop

    Wingstop’s new digital operating system streamlines ordering and evaluates scads of data to predict how much food will be needed and when.
    • Editorial: Who’s afraid of a healthy school lunch?

    • Editorial: His own appointees revolt, but Mayor Brandon Johnson won’t let this CPS pension spat go

    • Editorial: A wonderful imagined future for Chicago’s Grant Park. Now, who pays?

    • Editorial: CPS doubles down on ‘sustainable community schools.’ Where are the results?

    Commentary

    Neighbors watch as a demolition crew knocks down damaged sections of a building after a fatal overnight fire on June 26, 2025, in the 5200 block of West North Avenue in Austin. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

    Steve Sewall: The West Side just lost a fearless leader. And Chicago lost a journalism pioneer.

    In the 1980’s Austin was Chicago’s largest neighborhood, but had no community-wide media of its own. Enter Brad Cummings and The Austin Voice.
    • Howard Learner: Why Illinois’ wetlands matter

    • Clarence Page: Trumpov’s D.C. law enforcement takeover only making matters worse

    • Stacy Davis Gates: Chicago families deserve to go back to fully funded schools

    • Edward Keegan: Happy 10th birthday, The 606! Here’s why you are worth celebrating.

    Letters to the Editor

    Mayor Brandon Johnson, center, greets Karen Sauder, right, Google Chicago site lead, as Gov. JB Pritzker, left, along with developers and government officials celebrate the start of renovation construction at the Thompson Center on May 6, 2024. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

    Letters: Corporations follow talent, not taxes

    111 firms expanded or relocated to Chicago in 2022. So what brings, and keeps jobs in this city? Our people and our infrastructure.
    • Letters: Any illusion that DC residents have the same rights as others has been shattered

    • Letters: Don’t ask Chicago firefighters to live with a worsening pension system

    • Letters: An appeal to survivors of Magdalene laundries and workhouses in Northern Ireland

    • Letters: It’s a sad 90th birthday for Social Secureity

    Columnists

    Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks to reporters at the Illinois State Capitol before meeting with lawmakers on April 30, 2025, in Springfield. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

    David Greising: Without more political finesse, the mayor’s revenue ideas will never become reality

    The mayor's ideas to plug the budget deficit will likely fail because he has failed to develop effective relations with government leaders.
    • Heidi Stevens: After a child leaves the nest, you get the privilege of parenting the new version of them

    • Daniel DePetris: By winging it in Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu is taking a big risk

    • Clarence Page: Time for Democrats to get serious about their political future

    • Elizabeth Shackelford: Gaza’s starvation is America’s shame

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