CPS must be more transparent

09/08/2010

Chicago Public Schools and Chief Executive Officer Ron Huberman must be more open with parents and neighborhood leaders seeking solutions at their neighborhood schools.
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Support Chicago's dance floor

Help rebuild it

09/01/2010

After 14 seasons of Summer Dance, the large public outdoor dance floor in Grant Park, near the corner of Michigan Avenue and Harrison Street, is in need of replacement.
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Don't leave Smyth School out of the fix for University Village

Two sides, one coin

08/25/2010

The issues surrounding parental and neighborhood school choice complaints in the 2nd and 25th Wards are complex and not exactly new. As middle to upper income families moved into University Village they outpaced neighborhood access to two magnet schools offering the quality of education desired.
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Miarka decision is a mistake

CPS jettisons decades of experience at Galileo

08/18/2010

Chicago Public Schools' refusal to add acting Galileo Scholastic Academy of Math and Science principal Blanca Miarka to an eligibility list to compete for the job permanently should be reconsidered.
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Target tries harder

New designs show improvement

08/11/2010

Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin recently contrasted Target’s new Wilson Yards outlet with the company’s “standard suburban model — a one-level store surrounded by parking.” The Wilson Yards store, however, as Kamin wrote, is a “compact two stories, with roughly 400 parking spaces tucked underneath.”
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Passing the buck

08/11/2010

The University of Illinois-Chicago recently sent employees notice that a rush-hour bus service providing medical center employees and some students quick and affordable access to Union and Ogilivie Stations would be cut this fall.

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Debt, the killer

Hall of fame's distress a warning to other small institutions

08/04/2010

Regular readers of this editorial page will recall that we’re big fans of the city’s smaller museums and cultural centers. An opinion piece we ran here in April 2009 prodded readers to not forget about institutions like the Blues Heaven Foundation near 21st and Michigan, the Hellenic Museum in Greektown and the A. Phillip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum on the Far South Side.
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Thoughts on two West Loop projects

What about the design?

07/28/2010

Recent editorials we’ve written about current West Loop developments - The Gateway at Madison and Halsted, the Target at the Fannie May site - have neglected an important aspect of each project: architecture and design. Let’s examine that now.
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Shut it down

Aldermen — Solis especially — need to step up on coal plant issue

07/21/2010

Been a hot summer, no? We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: City council needs to pass the ordinance drafted by Ald. Moore and supported by 12 aldermen to start the process of closing down the Fisk and Crawford coal-fired power stations in Pilsen and Little Village.
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West Loop scores with foodies

07/21/2010

In spite of the wearied economy, sluggish like a daisy wilting in 90-degree sun, the West Loop is proving that it remains a highly desirable location for the city’s most ambitious and innovative restaurateurs.
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