It's not all investigations, politics and crime news. A good daily newspaper captures the flavor of its city. @zareensyed.bsky.social did that masterfully with her coverage of the craziness at the Wiener Circle yesterday www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/23/w...

With the news this morning that Kraft-Heinz is definitely splitting in two, here's @chicagotribune.com editorial board's take from July on how this is likely bad news for Chicago www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/15/e...

President Trump says Chicagoans are "screaming for" federal troops to fight crime here. @chicagotribune.com edit board begs to differ www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/22/e...

@chicagotribune.com editorial: When your "set it and forget it" 401(k) returns are doing better than the performance being turned in by Chicago's pension-fund managers, that's a problem www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/20/e...

@chicagotribune.com editorial: A 5% Chicago tax on payrolls above $200k would impel corporations to move staff out of the city. Includes news on just how few Citadel workers are left in Chicago following Ken Griffin's HQ move to Miami www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/07/e...

@govpritzker.illinois.gov just signed this bill and in one stroke of his pen transformed Chicago police and fire pension funds from 25% funded to 18% funded www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/29/e...

In @chicagotribune.com op-ed, @govpritzker.illinois.gov, House Speaker Welch and Senate President Harmon accuse State Farm of refusing to share info with state regulators that would justify its 27% homeowners rate hike www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/30/o...

@chicagotribune.com editorial: Illinois' electricity crisis draws nearer, as our ComEd bills are showing. Springfield needs to act — pragmatically, not ideologically www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/24/e...

@chicagotribune.com editorial board: Intense war of words between @govpritzker.illinois.gov and State Farm on the nosebleed cost of insuring homes is serving no one. There should be plenty of room to negotiate www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/16/e...

@chicagotribune.com editorial: Why Kraft Heinz's decision to split in two is probably bad news for Chicago www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/15/e...

Chicago faces one of the grimmest budget years in ages. @adquig.bsky.social with the gory details www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/13/u...

Who better than @pwsullivan.bsky.social to remember the now dearly departed Lee Elia and his rant for the ages on the Bleacher Bums? www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/10/l...

Ken Burns' Civil War captivated the country 35 years ago. He looks set to do it again with the forthcoming "American Revolution." The timing couldn't be better www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

@chicagotribune.com editorial: Independent restaurants are hanging on for dear life. @chicagosmayor.bsky.social needs to backtrack on eliminating the subminimum wage for tipped workers, or many more like Gale Street Inn will close www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/29/e...

@chicagotribune.com editorial: A larger rival wants to buy NorthernTrust. If Bank of New York Mellon is successful, it would be a tremendous blow to Chicago www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/23/e...

@chicagotribune.com editorial on the Madigan verdict www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/13/e...

Provocative @chicagotribune.com op-ed by a Zillow exec on how private listings often are bad for many home sellers but invariably good for the agents www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/09/o...

@chicagotribune.com editorial: Not all the math is in yet, but enough is to know that residential property tax bills in Chicago this fall will be painful www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/29/e...

Outstanding reporting here on U.S. Rep. Jonathan Jackson's highly questionable lease with long-time business partner and connected developer Elzie Higginbottom, using taxpayer money www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/18/j...

Excellent @chicagotribune.com piece on the political standing of @chicagosmayor.bsky.social, two years into his difficult term www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/11/m...

@chicagotribune.com editorial: @chicagosmayor.bsky.social's bid to roll the school board to install Cristina Pacione-Zayas as CPS CEO is a power play a la Machine mayors of old www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/07/e...

From the Editorial Board: It was 2014 when longtime members of the Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange first lodged a class-action lawsuit against CME Group. After the failure of multiple CME attempts to kill the suit, there now is a court date: July 7.

Great concept! Deftly executed. Current north suburban high school students are gathered to watch "The Breakfast Club." Oh, how things have changed. And some aspects of high school life are forever www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/11/t...

@chicagotribune.com editorial: More is at stake than one big law firm's future in Jenner & Block's battle against a bullying Trump. Other firms need to join in the fight www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/10/e...

@chicagotribune.com editorial: Choose Chicago finally hires a new tourism chief. Just as the U.S. increasingly becomes a pariah to large parts of the rest of the world www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/06/e...

@chicagotribune.com editorial: Trump applies some 17th and 18th century economics to the modern world. Not likely to end well. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/03/e...

@chicagotribune.com editorial: Donald Trump's tariff hand isn't nearly as strong as he thinks it is. Other nations have choices of who to make their trading partners www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/04/e...

@chicagotribune.com editorial: Trump applies some 17th and 18th century economics to the modern world. Not likely to end well. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/03/e...

@chicagotribune.com editorial: @chicagosmayor.bsky.social, @ctulocal1.bsky.social win the most pyrrhic of "victories" with four-year contract agreement www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/e...

@chicagotribune.com editorial: The man in charge of 10 schools serving 2,000 students in Dolton and Riverside is making $100k more per year than the man running Chicago Public Schools, serving 325,000 students www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/28/d...

@chicagotribune.com editorial: Chicago School Board should say no to @chicagosmayor.bsky.social's pension-payment demand www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/19/e...

Great @jmetr22b.bsky.social profile of Amar Bhachu, top federal prosecutor on organized crime and public corruption whose last day in the U.S. attorney's office is today. Bhachu's cross-examination of Mike Madigan will live on in legend www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/14/t...

If Kamala Harris had gotten the same margins with Latinos as Joe Biden, she would be president. Great @wsj.com op-ed boils it down www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

@chicagotribune.com editorial: Stop this ride, I want to get off! The market is screaming at President Trump to stop the tariff gyrations. Will he listen? www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/10/e...

@chicagotribune.com editorial: It's sad this day has come for Walgreens, a Chicago corporate giant through and through www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/07/e...

@chicagotribune.com editorial: Aldermen must insist on major changes to @chicagosmayor.bsky.social's wildly irresponsible bond sale www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/23/e...

State regulators order Peoples Gas to finish pipeline replacement by 2035 www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/20/p...

Yeah, OK, it helps to be a certain age to dig #Tributosaurus. But this, er, tribute gets their charm (and chops) exactly right www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/15/r...

@aldconway.bsky.social raises the alarms on the Johnson admin's plans to float $830m in new debt and leave any repayment for after his term ends www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/14/o...

@chicagotribune.com editorial: Mayor Brandon Johnson is sounding more and more like a hard-left version of Donald Trump every day www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/14/e...

Fantastic @chicagotribune.com reporting on how the Madigan jurors worked. As I've seen from both being on a jury and covering them, people take that duty seriously. If you're worried about the future of America, jury performance should reassure www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/12/w...

Update: City Council's Finance Committee has pulled the proposed Dexter Reed settlement from its agenda. Votes aren't there, apparently. Tribune's Edit Board urged a no vote on Friday

@chicagotribune.com editorial: The message @chicagosmayor.bsky.social should deliver to Republicans in DC when he goes www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/09/e...

@chicagotribune.com editorial: A line must be drawn somewhere on police settlements. Chicago City Council should reject the proposed $1.25m payout to the family of Dexter Reed www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/07/e...

@chicagotribune.com editorial: Assessor Kaegi's reassessment of Chicago property is done, and there seems to be not enough appreciation for the historic collapse of office-building values www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/31/e...

NEW — Our comments have been bussin’ about the Bally’s Chicago Casino offering equity shares to minority and women investors. One reader, who holds an MBA from NYU, did the math and wrote about it. thetriibe.com/2025/01/opin...

@chicagotribune.com editorial: Now that @ctulocal1.bsky.social is openly threatening to strike, @chicagosmayor.bsky.social is on the spot. If teachers walk off the job, what will he do? Join them? www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/24/e...

With so much focus on Chicago Public Schools, it's easy to forget that concerns about what our kids are being taught (and what they're not being taught) aren't confined to public schools. Jens Ludwig with a bracing @chicagotribune.com op-ed www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/22/o...

RIP to the great Garth Hudson, until yesterday the last surviving member of The Band. Such a moving video of his revisiting the legendary Big Pink www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBc_...

@chicagotribune.com editorial: Mayor Johnson's $830 million borrowing plan needs at the very least to be scaled back substantially and can't be allowed to pay for legal settlements www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/21/e...