From Our President 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. Jun 12, 2020 3:00 PM
From Our President Greising: Defund CPD. A Popular Slogan but an Idea in Search of a Plan. The call has gone out all across the land: “Defund the police.” It’s a popular slogan, even if the details are far from clear. Jun 12, 2020 9:45 AM
From Our President 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. May 29, 2020 10:18 AM
From Our President 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. May 15, 2020 9:00 AM
From Our President 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. May 11, 2020 11:00 AM
From Our President Greising: Zoom-zoom, Illinois — Legislative Deadlines Call for a Virtual General Assembly Meeting The “no meetings” option is what the Illinois legislature has embraced so far. It’s a high-risk, high-cost choice that abdicates the General Assembly’s obligation to do the people’s business. May 1, 2020 9:00 AM
From Our President Greising: Without FOIA Powers, Facts Around Little Village Smokestack Debacle Will Remain in a Cloud The Crawford dust cloud is no less disastrous just because COVID-19 is upon us. And the people in Little Village, and across the city, have an urgent right to know who protected them, who did not and whom to hold accountable for what went wrong. Apr 17, 2020 12:00 PM
From Our President Greising: Trying to Measure Depth of COVID Hole With No Yardsticks The data is murky enough, and the course of the disease so unknowable, that no one quite yet knows what exactly we're looking at. Apr 10, 2020 3:00 PM
From Our President Greising: Behind the Race to Fight COVID-19, Can Illinois Keep Its Finances in Order? As Pritzker reworks his budget, the state has precious little flexibility. With $7.4 billion in unpaid bills, a credit rating that’s just one notch above junk and a pension system that eats up more than 20% of the state’s operating budget, it faces a trifecta of trouble. Apr 3, 2020 9:00 AM
From Our President Greising: Gov. Pritzker Steps up in Face of Coronavirus Crisis. Similarly Bold Leadership Would Help Solve Illinois’ Other Problems. Pritzker’s stand on elections was an act of leadership. Some disagreed, others agreed. And that’s when leaders step up and make a judgment call. Mar 20, 2020 9:00 AM
