David Greising

ShotSpotter brought about an unusual harmony between aldermen from the Northwest and Southwest sides and aldermen from the South and West sides.

The Chicago Police Department has a problem with racist, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim and anti-democratic police officers on the force.

Within a few years Chicago's Board of Education will be fully elected.

Merging the Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund into the state fund is a political longshot but deserves serious discussion.

The rhetoric about the Chicago police’s readiness for the DNC is encouraging. But there’s a big prove-it facing Superintendent Larry Snelling, too.

It's a long-standing Chicago tradition that the Chicago Teachers Union president, in the heat of contract negotiations, begins demonizing Chicago's mayor.

It seems almost a foregone conclusion that a property tax hike will be in the plan. Mayor Brandon Johnson likely has no choice.

Stacy Davis Gates' scheming to oust Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez has marked another step in the power portfolio she has built since engineering Brandon Johnson's election as mayor.

A new day in Illinois' fiscal future may be on the horizon. Responsible stewardship of the state's budget over the past few years and the elimination

With pension reform possibly within reach, there's a Goldilocks problem for the state lawmakers setting plans to tackle Illinois' worst-in-the-nation pension problem.