Perspectives

There’s no reason for the City Council to maintain its unspoken power-sharing agreement with the mayor when it comes to committees.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s track record on reform is a mixed bag. A wide-ranging ethics reform proposal could help her follow through on her promises.

From this point forward, online systems — on Zoom or similar platforms — should always be available for the benefit of those who can’t attend public meetings. But that’s as far as it should go.

The state’s history of corruption has the public craving good government, empower the inspector general’s office as a start to restoring confidence.

Every year from 2009 to 2016, lawmakers made a big bipartisan show of voting to freeze their salaries. Now some of them want to claw back those raises, for themselves and all lawmakers who gave them up.

The repeated stalling of the Fair Maps Amendment contradicts the textbook narrative about elected representatives who carry out the will of voters. Civics teachers are going to have some explaining to do.

Ethical violations by Chicago aldermen and city officials ought to carry meaningful consequences. Proposed reforms would do that.

Any conversation about funding road improvements ought to include discussion of how to make the electrics chip in, too.

Chicago is getting closer to running its injured workers program the right way.