Letters to the Editor

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. —- FIX DCFS Watching our politicians play political football and the blame game with DCFS is disgusting (“DCFS keeps teenager locked in psych ward,” May 19). The ones hurt by this are our most vulnerable […]

CHABAD IS NEW The idea that Chabad is traditional worship in Judaism is flawed (“Teaching Jewish traditions,” May 12). Chabad as a movement is really young in terms of Judaism’s thousands of years of history. Not a great take on Judaism as a whole. Amichai Graves Via Facebook.com/illinoistimes GOOD WORK Thank you for the great […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. —- OFFENSIVE BILLBOARD On May 4, we walked into work at the Family Guidance Center to see this billboard directly outside our facility. Personally, I have witnessed how it has affected my colleagues and the work […]

WRONG TENANTS I don’t support having the Myers Brothers Building turned into below-market rental units (“Downtown redevelopment project gets dicey,” April 28). This would not bring in the type of tenants we need to revitalize downtown. Kudos to the city for objecting to this kind of development. Dennis Canaday Via Facebook.com/illinoistimes NO ONE WANTS OFFICES […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. —- GOOD MEMORIES I grew up on a farm near Loami and New Berlin. My parents would take my sister and me to Town & Country in the 1960s to shop for clothes at Goldblatt’s […]

GOOD NEWS Glad to see this (“Progress for Pillsbury site,” April 14). There needs to be some attention paid to that end of town, and perhaps this is a steppingstone. Julie Bartlett Benson Via Facebook.com/illinoistimes WHO’S RESPONSIBLE? I just can’t comprehend that one of the mega-corporations that used the site isn’t responsible for the cleanup. […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. —- WRONG IMPRESSION In the last month, I sat with my husband as he called Gateway to get help with his substance-abuse disorder. I watched him cry and look scared as they told him he […]

REJECT PRIVILEGE I read with interest Scott Reeder’s article regarding white privilege (“Leading a privileged life,” March 31). I am sure at some points I, too, have been privileged in this way, but I don’t want to perpetuate this social imbalance, either. I think one way we can end this treatment is by not accepting […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. —- CORPORATE GREED Price gouging for profit is a fundamental underlying cause of the growing consumer price inflation we are experiencing today (“Buy now, save later,” March 24). Many of the markets in our economy, […]

We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. —- RACIST TOWN Tracey Meares’ experience is appalling (“The Black valedictorian who never received the title,” March 17). I came from the Chicago area to go to graduate school here and immediately moved to Southern […]

WORTH THE COST UIS’s Engaged Citizenship Common Experience curriculum is a very small requirement and I found it to be a valuable experience (“Diversity curriculum still debated,” March 10). I think the perspectives and information you are exposed to make people think beyond themselves as well as challenging ideas about the world. I don’t always […]