Coronavirus

Greising: New $10M Fund for Rebuilding Chicago Businesses Is Just a Start

The mayor is seeking systemic approaches to address the violence and poverty that plague the city. It's the right way to frame the problem. It also reveals the difficulty of the task she faces: Systemic change will be difficult, and cost a lot.

What the Gov: Cook County Property Taxpayers Have Two Extra Months to Pay Their Bills

Property owners may still get their August bills in the mail soon but the county won’t penalize late payments until after Oct. 1.

What the Gov: Will Illinois Implement Program Aimed at Avoiding Layoffs Amid COVID-19?

The federal government is offering funds to states with programs that encourage employers to temporarily cut staff hours instead of resorting to layoffs. But the agency charged with launching the program in Illinois says the state likely won’t be able to take advantage of a major piece of that support.

Greising: FOIA Access Was Protected During a Hectic General Assembly Session. That’s a Good Thing During This Pandemic.

This year, perhaps the worst bad idea was a proposal to suspend the Freedom of Information Act and block access to public records during the height of the COVID-19 crisis.

Tell Lawmakers to Protect Our Nov. 3 Election

Greising: Some Want the Economy Flung Open. Wake Up. COVID-19’s No Hoax.

COVID-19 is all too real. Each day brings a new revelation about its ability to avoid detection, its easy travel from carrier to victim, the way it teases the stricken with a brief bout of apparent recovery — before it goes in for the kill.

Greising: Next on the COVID Hit List: Free and Fair Elections

It's time to start drawing up plans to broadly expand mail-in voting across Illinois.