The United States Postal Service is on the brink of a self-induced collapse. The failed policies of the Delivering for America Plan have driven away customers through a combination of sky-high rate increases and degraded service. David Steiner, who will take over as Postmaster General on July 14, has a tough job to do and […]
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Editors note 6/26/25
This week Illinois Times welcomes our summer intern, Maggie Dougherty, of Charlottesville, Virginia. A master’s degree student with Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Maggie is particularly interested in investigative journalism and local news reporting. Earlier this year she was a reporting fellow with Capitol News Illinois in Springfield. Her undergraduate degree, from The College […]
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Letters to the editor 6/25/26
We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. — NO THIRD STREET GREENWAY What are our leaders thinking? For over a decade, successive administrations have focused on turning the Third Street rail corridor into a multi-use trail, the Third Street greenway. Current estimates […]
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Legislators react to Madigan sentencing, assassinations in Minnesota
I reached out last week to several members of the “19” – the Democratic House members who refused to vote to reelect House Speaker Michael Madigan in 2021, thereby forcing him into retirement. I asked for their reaction to Madigan’s 90-month federal prison sentence handed down a few days earlier. In talking with several members […]
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The rule of law is king
The hundreds of thousands of Americans who took part in the “No Kings” protests across the country on Saturday, June 14, were asserting a demand that the current president and his minions comply with the rule of law. Elections do have consequences. It is the American way to oppose policies and programs of a president […]
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Suddenly the antiwar president is threatening to take the U.S. into war with Iran. He may have thought threats would be enough to get Iran to give in to his demand for “unconditional surrender,” but it only brought a return threat from Iran to inflict “irreparable damage” if the U.S. intervenes. President Trump thought blocking […]
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Letter to the editor 06-19-25
TRY SOMETHING NEW How many times are you going to rehash the huge vacancy of downtown offices (“A plan to save downtown,” June 5)? This city government has been talking about repairing the downtown since the 1970s. Remember Time – not Illinois Times, but the major Time magazine – had our Hilton hotel towering over […]
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Chicago on list for ICE raids
As I write this, multiple news outlets have reported that the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is preparing to deploy its Special Response Teams to five major U.S. cities, including Chicago, in the very near future. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s chief of staff Cristina Pacione-Zayas told reporters last week: “There will be tactical teams, […]
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Editors note 6/12/25
In the Broadway production Good Night, and Good Luck, it was after Edward R. Murrow used his 1950s TV program to show clips of U.S. Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy making a fool of himself in his own words that Murrow got in trouble with news executives at CBS for practicing “advocacy” journalism. As one of […]
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Letters to the editor 6/12/25
We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. — A GOOD CHANGE I will assume that nuns do not lie but unfortunately do fall prey to media and Democrat lies. The proposed reforms to Medicaid and food stamps would, horror of all horrors, […]
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Why the omnibus energy bill failed to pass
I asked Illinois House Speaker Chris Welch last week about the failure to pass an omnibus energy bill (the Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act) during the just-ended spring legislative session. “I think the same thing that happened on energy happened on all the things, you know. Big bills take time,” Welch said. “And I […]
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State officials eye Chicago mayor’s race
For quite a while now, most folks in politics have assumed that Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias and Comptroller Susana Mendoza will probably run for mayor of Chicago in 2027. The incumbent Brandon Johnson is spectacularly unpopular, and a real hunger is developing in the city (again) for new leadership. Anyway, some wags have […]
