From Our President Greising: Arne Duncan Has Done Violence Prevention Work for 5 Years. Would He Make a Difference As Mayor? Mayor Lori Lightfoot has come up mostly empty on crime. Arne Duncan, a co-founder of the Chicago anti-violence group CRED, is the one who’s full of bright-sounding ideas now. Would his ideas make a difference if he became mayor? Feb 4, 2022 9:30 AM
From Our President A Message about BGA Community Forums: Navigating the Story of Cabrini-Green Read a message from President and CEO David Greising on the disturbing incident during our recent community forum. Jan 29, 2022 5:56 PM
From Our President Greising: What’s Awry With Lightfoot and Evans’ Fight Over Electronic Monitoring? Use of Distorted Data. The messy use of data by Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Cook County Chief Judge Evans over electronic monitoring is particularly painful in a dispute where lives are at stake. Jan 21, 2022 9:30 AM
From Our President Fighting Crime? Maybe Our Crime-Fighters Should Stop Fighting First. The odds of solving Chicago's tragic crime problems are undermined by the fact that the city’s chief public-safety officials simply can’t get along. That has to stop—now. Jan 11, 2022 9:57 AM
From Our President Greising: Jan. 6 Showed Us the Power of Voting Is Fragile. There Must Be Safeguards. Even in the face of an anti-democratic movement, there are some signs that the commitment to truly representative government is still at work. Jan 7, 2022 9:30 AM
From Our President Greising: Does Mayor Lightfoot Have Fresh Solutions for Chicago’s Violence? With surging crime rates to close out 2021, Lightfoot hopes to execute a plan to curb the violence by summer 2022; however, the mayor should take her proposal back to the drawing board. Dec 27, 2021 3:30 PM
From Our President Greising: Chicago Remap Battles Endure, As Always. But This Time, It's Black vs. Latino The struggle for dominance in City Council this time is between Blacks and Latinos, not Blacks and whites like in the 1980s. Dec 10, 2021 3:45 PM
From Our President Chicago Has One Chance To Get Its Gambling Mix Right. And Sportsbooks Are a Factor. The mayor should not just shrug off casino bidder Neil Bluhm’s warnings about the effects of stadium sportsbooks. If her administration gets this wrong, the economic and reputational damage could be substantial. Dec 7, 2021 9:57 AM
From Our President Greising: At Two-Year Mark, Invest South/West Shows Promise At the heart of the Invest South/West effort is a notion that the destructive powers of crime, disinvestment and other ills can be tackled with government and private resources. Nov 29, 2021 10:45 AM
From Our President Greising: Believe It or Not, Billionaires Make Illinois Politics Better Illinois is a case study in why plenty of good can come with the big bucks from billionaires. Nov 15, 2021 12:57 PM
