From Our President

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has proposed important pension reform for the city and Illinois. He should keep up the fight, even after his mayoral term ends.

The community is pushing Mayor Rahm Emanuel to slow down his ambitious plans to work with Sterling Bay on the Lincoln Yards development. He should listen.

Running for mayor is a game of numbers. The date of announcement is a number. The money in the kitty is a number. The cold calculations about constituencies, canvassers, endorsements and timing are all about numbers.

During his successful campaign for governor, J.B. Pritzker revealed little about his tax and spending plans. Now that he’s won, slogans parading as a campaign platform won’t do anymore.

Illinois gubernatorial candidates Gov. Bruce Rauner and J.B. Pritzker had some explaining to do regarding residences, however neither candidate provided voters with strong positions on issues that would send them to the polls.

The story of Sears’ failure is one of corporate hubris, failed financial engineering, an inability to respond to competitors — and even a waste of public money.

Rahm Emanuel has been widely praised for accomplishments in many parts of his job. But despite his many talents, the crime issue has proved beyond his capacity to fix, and those who want to succeed him must prove they’ve got ideas that might work.

Before Emanuel’s surprise announcement to leave office, Chicago probably wasn’t in the game for Amazon’s HQ2. Now unleashed from the constraints of politics, he just might pay whatever it costs to get back in.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. Bruce Rauner’s feuding got in the way of the good they could’ve done for Illinois and Chicago.