David Greising

It's said that a budget is a moral document: The values that fill each cell of the budget spreadsheet represent the values of the author.

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s borrowing plans, which will have both immediate and yearslong ramifications, have not gotten enough focus.

The online version of betting known as prediction markets has come seemingly out of nowhere to become a multibillion-dollar industry, one that has set off a struggle pitting states' rights to regulate them against federal power.

When it comes to good-government tools, the Freedom of Information Act has always been the sharpest, flashiest one in the kit.

Late last year, just days before a historic transit bill finally passed and went to Gov. JB Pritzker's desk, it was loaded with controversial ideas.

Rarely has a Chicago mayor with so much at stake traveled to Springfield with such little hope of getting what the mayor wants.

Just when we thought we might never need to hear about the city of Chicago's abysmal parking meter deal again, it was the subject of a this week.

If new and improved financing authority is the answer, perhaps it would be best to start with the ISFA, rather than creating two new agencies.

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Potentates and glitterati convened in Woodlawn this week to celebrate the opening of the Obama Presidential Center.