By Jim Nowlan Mayor Lori Lightfoot finally put her finger on the fundamental problem about youth violence in her city: “Parents should not let their 10-year-olds go downtown alone late at night, as some are doing!” Duh. I fear the quality of parenting has declined sharply over the past half century, especially in—I’m generalizing here,…

By Ray Hanania When your top employee turns out to be an accused pedophile, and is later convicted and jailed, the last thing you want the public to see is the letter you wrote urging leniency so he can continue doing your work. That’s basically what Cook County Commissioner Sean Morrison did when he learned…

By Rich Miller The long Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer and is perhaps best known in Chicago as the beginning of its long, hot season of gun violence. The morning-after news coverage typically notes that the holiday “was the most violent weekend of the year so far,” or some such thing.…