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Under Illinois law, older adults have to jump through more hoops than people in other age groups to get their drivers licenses renewed. A proposed bill is a way to fix that.
The Illinois Commerce Commission has to protect customers’ wallets when deciding on Nicor’s $309 million rate hike request, and how to proceed with the over-budget Peoples Gas pipeline replacement project.
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For Meta to abandon fact-checking in the U.S., at a time of great divisiveness over truth and lies, is the height of irresponsibility. Dozens of Meta fact-checking partners sent a letter to Zuckerberg criticizing the move.
The criminal justice system has already made too many mistakes. Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke would be making more if her office will consider charging witnesses who recant their testimonies in post-conviction cases tied to police abuse allegations.
In a city where so many children have to travel across town to find a good school, the PiggyBack Network is a necessity for parents who need to book rides to school for their kids.
In the words of Vice President Kamala Harris after Congress certified the 2024 election, “Democracy must be upheld by the people.”
Much of the public is ignorant about the potential cancer risks tied to alcohol. Shouldn’t they be alerted to them, as U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s plan would do?
A mass shooting in Kankakee, shootings in Chicago, a truck attack in New Orleans. Fighting to curb violence in 2025 will be harder if we allow disinformation to spread.
Con frecuencia, la policía, los bomberos y otros socorristas ven o experimentan traumas que pueden llevar al agotamiento profesional, la depresión y el suicidio. La terapia los ayuda a ellos y al público al que sirven.
Our city can celebrate the decline in violence, but Chicago risks sliding backward without support for successful violence prevention programs.
Police, firefighters and other first responders regularly see or experience trauma, which can lead to career burnout, depression and suicide. Counseling helps them, and the public they serve.
City Council members should ask the city’s Board of Ethics to weigh in on any conflict between the mayor’s duties and his ties to his former employer: Chicago Public Schools.
Proposals to weaken the Affordable Care Act, cut back on Medicaid and undermine Medicare have been floating around Washington as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office.
President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office next month, is using Elon Musk’s wealth and influence to bully Congress. Controlling the levers of government is one of the benefits Musk expects to receive after spending $275 million to help get Trump reelected.
From mid-November to early December, more than two dozen geese were diagnosed with lead poisoning, and 11 died.
Firing CPS CEO Martinez ignores what schools are supposed to be about: educating kids.
Placing the U.S. Postal Service in the hands of private operators, which President-elect Donald Trump has discussed with his commerce secretary nominee Howard Lutnick, is a cure that’s far worse than the ailment.
The 52-bed hospital will occupy 23 acres of the 400-acre former South Works site, sharing the massive parcel with the planned new Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park.
Raed Mansour had earned the respect of community groups. Those folks have good reason to be troubled by his departure.
People are afraid to speak up about substandard care because they fear a facility will retaliate against them. That’s no way to live. Senate President Don Harmon must steer a bill that would help protect residents to the finish line.
To end this budget drama, Johnson has to make hard choices he’s resisted so far on city worker furlough days and other cost efficiencies.
Two federal agencies say delta-8 THC products pose a health risk, and more children are being sickened by ingesting them. Some Chicago-area suburbs have banned delta-8. It’s time for Illinois to act.