@chicagotribune.com editorial: A United-American Airlines merger ordinarily would be deemed ludicrous. But for the man sitting in the Oval Office www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/15/e...

Really well done @andrew-carter.bsky.social story (with lots of sly movie references) answering why Bill Murray is such a rabid UConn fan www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/04/b...

New, worrying details emerge in @chicagosmayor.bsky.social plan to borrow to pay firefighters and cover ballooning legal settlements. @chicagotribune.com editorial explains and decries www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/27/e...

For all you legions of Stones fans out there, the legendary Double Door show of (gulp) nearly three decades ago in all its glory. RIP Double Door www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cnv...

In @chicagotribune.com op-ed, elected school board members Jessica Biggs and Che Rhymefest Smith say there should be no permanent @chipubschools.bsky.social CEO hired until there's a fully elected board in 2027 www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/13/o...

Novel arrangement in Monterey County, CA, has one of the town's largest companies investing millions in the last local bank left standing in order to preserve community banking www.wsj.com/finance/bank...

Now that President Trump once again is lobbing tariff threats at specific nations over social media (this time, a 100% tariff on all Canadian goods), it's worth reposting this @chicagotribune.com editorial from last week www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/21/e...

I have done my part to welcome the LA Rams into the watershed 🌊🌊

Great @wsj.com deep dive on what's afflicting Chicago-based Kraft Heinz's signature mac and cheese www.wsj.com/business/ret...

One of the finest Paul Sullivan columns, and that's saying something. On the Bears' NW Indiana dreams www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/18/c...

@chicagotribune.com editorial: Handling of Christkindlmarket is yet another self-inflicted error by the current powers that be in our city www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/e...

Fulton Market is the "hottest" neighborhood economically in Chicago, but developers are sitting on more than 20 fully approved projects and can't get financing to build them. @chicagotribune.com edit board explains why www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/07/e...

Great @wsj.com story on Amazon's move to sell Pepsi and Doritos out of Whole Foods stores. Is it a surprise they're test-marketing this concept in Chicago rather than, say, Seattle? Nope www.wsj.com/business/ret...

McDonald's reacts to @mayorofchicago.bsky.social's business tax proposals. "Ultimately, corporations have a choice where they are headquartered" www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/22/o...

@chicagotribune.com editorial board: It's time for the business community to make clear to aldermen — in ways that may not be comfortable for either side — what's at stake in the budget battle to come www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/19/e...

When you mix family and business, what can go wrong? Plenty, as this wild @robertchannick.bsky.social piece on the Smithe brothers (of furniture retailing fame) demonstrates www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/b...

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...