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Ald. Scott Waguespack prepares to walk off following a call for adjournment of the City Council at City Hall on Dec. 16, 2025. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)

Editorial: The sausage making in the City Council’s Finance Committee wasn’t pretty. But a budget thankfully is in sight.

The alternative budget an opposition bloc of City Council members has forged isn't perfect. But it is a way to avert disaster.

New neighbors James Williams and Sean Brinker talk outside their new homes as three families receive a new house in Chicago’s Roseland neighborhood, Dec. 18, 2024. The Hope Center Foundation, United Power for Action and Justice and Salem Baptist Church of Chicago were on hand to provide keys and housewarming wishes and gifts to the families. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)

Editorial: This year’s Chicago Prize selection highlights how private investment can build affordable housing

A CTA Brown Line train leaves the Addison station, Dec. 14, 2025, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)

Laura Washington: Chance the Rapper’s CTA campaign is fun but won’t soothe our fears

A manger scene is displayed at the International exhibition "100 Nativity Scenes in the Vatican," in St. Peter's Square, Dec. 8, 2025, which brings together works by numerous artisans depicting the Nativity. (Gregorio Borgia/AP)

Anthony Pahnke: What Las Posadas has taught me about Christmas and community

New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks after pleading not guilty outside the United States District Court on Oct. 24, 2025, in Norfolk, Virginia. (John Clark/AP)

John Soares: The lawfare against New York Attorney General Letitia James isn’t new. Both parties have used it.

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Mourners gather at a memorial on Dec. 15, 2025, near the mass shooting at Bondi Beach, in Sydney. (Saeed Khan/Getty-AFP)

Editorial: Bondi Beach. Brown University. The Reiners. A weekend of hellish violence.

So which example of this weekend's human carnage most deserved an editorial board's focus?

Commentary

Jeremy Nichols, a project manager with the Chicago Department of Family & Support Services, checks on tents of homeless encampment residents at Gompers Park before the park was cleared May 12, 2025, in Chicago. (Audrey Richardson/Chicago Tribune)

Jim O’Connor: Federal policy ignores the most perilous weeks of addiction treatment

The period immediately after discharge from a short-term residential addiction treatment program is where the system often breaks down.

Letters to the Editor

The State/Lake CTA station in Chicago on Dec. 4, 2025. The station will close in January while a new station is built. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)

Letters: The Tribune Editorial Board gets it wrong in its piece about the State/Lake ‘L’ station rebuild

Between mixed comparisons and a seeming lack of awareness, the points the board should’ve made fall by the wayside.

Columnists

Protesters including children gather on May 24, 2025, in London to demand the return of the Ukrainian children abducted by Russia. According to the Ukrainian government, more than 19,500 children have been forcibly taken by Russia since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. To date, only 1,307 of these children have been safely returned to areas under Ukrainian government control. (Alishia Abodunde/Getty)

Elizabeth Shackelford: Normalizing Russia normalizes the mass abduction of Ukrainian children

Since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been kidnapped and taken to Russia.

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Editorial: The sausage making in the City Council’s Finance Committee wasn’t pretty. But a budget thankfully is in sight.

Editorial: This year’s Chicago Prize selection highlights how private investment can build affordable housing

Laura Washington: Chance the Rapper’s CTA campaign is fun but won’t soothe our fears

Anthony Pahnke: What Las Posadas has taught me about Christmas and community

John Soares: The lawfare against New York Attorney General Letitia James isn’t new. Both parties have used it.

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Letters: Cook County tax sale perpetuates historic injustices

Stuart Loren: Chicago’s economy is stagnant. The mayor’s budget will only make the fiscal storm worse

Daniel DePetris: Donald Trump is conducting a secret war

Ald. Debra Silverstein: What the mayor can do to address the rise of anti-Jewish crime in Chicago

Editorial: Indiana puts mid-decade redistricting worries to bed. Good, now we can move on.

Letters: The violence and hatred unleashed on Brown University and Bondi Beach in Australia matter to all

Editorials

Editorial: Bondi Beach. Brown University. The Reiners. A weekend of hellish violence.

Editorial: Guaranteed income requires steady funding. Illinois governments don’t have it.

Editorial: There needs to be an independent probe into Officer Krystal Rivera’s ‘friendly fire’ death

Editorial: Porch piracy is costly and frustrating. And Chicagoland is a hotbed of parcel theft.

Editorial: The chaotic situation involving property taxes, Cook County tax sales and governmental theft

Commentary

Jim O’Connor: Federal policy ignores the most perilous weeks of addiction treatment

Paul Vallas: The CTU’s power grab is hurting Chicago’s other unions

Elliot Richardson and Sam Toia: Chicago must take restaurants and small businesses off the budget’s menu

Richard C. Longworth: Donald Trump wants a resurgence in European nationalism

Edward Keegan: Robert A.M. Stern wrote 7,000 pages about New York architecture. Who can write Chicago’s tome?

Letters to the Editor

Letters: The Tribune Editorial Board gets it wrong in its piece about the State/Lake ‘L’ station rebuild

Letters: Fatal traffic crashes are down in Chicago. Let’s not roll back that progress.

Letters: Christmas offers us joy and belonging

Letters: Federal agents’ ‘reckless’ behavior could have been avoided if Joe Biden had done his job

Letters: The Christmas Tree Ship event was marred by political staging. Please keep it rooted in community.

Columnists

Elizabeth Shackelford: Normalizing Russia normalizes the mass abduction of Ukrainian children

Heidi Stevens: Wrapped in love — and cars — a Christmas tree honors a mom’s promise to her late son

Daniel DePetris: The good and the bad in Donald Trump’s national security strategy

Edward Keegan: Frank Gehry’s generous and democratic architecture

Clarence Page: President Donald Trump’s obsession with Somali immigrants takes a sinister turn

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