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 Wednesday, Jan 2 Gov.-elect J.B. Pritzker raise a public higher ed system that for years has been losing high school grads to universities in other states. Rather than talking about a centralized system like those in Wisconsin, California and New York, Illinois higher ed officials want a 16.6 percent budget hike. |   | |
| Ron Grossman: Remembering a red-sauce restaurant — Sabatino's — and the many other neighborhood favorites that used to exist in Chicago. |
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| Commentary: Structural reform is necessary in Chicago — from the mayor's office to the city council. |
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| Some 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day. This is the generation that promised in its youth to fix the country's ills. How about giving that another try? |
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| Chicago aldermen tend to do as mayors tell them. Voters, elect a City Council that will function as a legislature — a check on the executive, not his or her puppets. |
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| Heidi Stevens: In the corners of the world we inhabit and influence, let's try these four little things to make 2019 friendlier and fairer for the women we know and the young women we're raising. |
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| Mary Schmich: All the news you need to know about 2018, in one dandy rhyme. |
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