Perspective

As the clock ticks, lawmakers must find the courage to fix their own broken ethics systems.

Water reclamation district commissioners are on the right track in creating an inspector general.

Gerrymandering steals your vote and your voice. Fight for fair maps now.

Three proposals for community input into policing currently sit in the City Council. Finding the middle ground will be difficult but critical.

Police and fire pension fund consolidation will create efficiencies and significantly reduce costs, improving many towns’ ability to finance the retirements promised to public safety workers.

Why should you have to tell an election judge you’re a Democrat or Republican?

We’re lamenting the system’s failure to give candidates and voters the election they deserve in a healthy democracy, and promoting reforms to consider in the run-up to November.

The Grassroots Alliance for Police Accountability has thrown another major proposal into the mix of Chicago police reform efforts. What is the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability and might it bring some stability to a volatile period for Chicago police oversight?

Illinois lawmakers could easily vote to give us a chance to end corrupt gerrymandering, but will they? And will we demand it?