Letters to the editor | Opinion

Feeling valued is the key this season

Letter to the editor

12/19/2012

The holiday season is here and the New Year beckons. The best part of this season is our special chance to help people to feel valued. Feeling valued is the single most important wish that all people in the world share.
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One-of-a-kind experience

12/12/2012

Hope is among the most important feelings that people might experience at this holiday time.
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The forecast for Lathrop

11/21/2012

When storms like Sandy and the Nor’easter come through, they destroy homes and communities, scattering many residents and leaving others behind to fight to be heard and hope to rebuild.
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Don’t close Kenmore

10/17/2012

If they go forward in face of continued community opposition, Alderman Waguespack should have an easy decision to not support the closing of Kenmore between Fullerton and Belden. Read more...

Pay attention to South Loop schools

Letter to the editor

07/11/2012

It happens about once or twice a week: someone in my South Loop neighborhood is helping a stranger with directions to the Soldier Field bridge, parking tips for Grant Park activities or delicious eats south of Roosevelt. We do this without question. We love the South Loop. What may appear as large concrete slabs to the passersby, we know there are crevices of communities and parks that would make anyone’s mouth water.
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This Fourth, remember your freedoms

Letter to the editor

07/03/2012

The Fourth of July reminds me of the significance of the “Four Freedoms” that President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed in his January 6, 1941, State of the Union address and to which he suggested that everyone is entitled. They are: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
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Teachers won't take it

Letter to the editor

05/30/2012

More than 7,500 proud members of the Chicago Teachers Union held a rally at the historic Auditorium Theater and marched downtown on Wednesday, May 23. Teachers, paraprofessionals, clerks and clinicians are tired of being scapegoated and disrespected by politicians and business-types who are not educators, many of which refuse to send their own children to our schools despite their clout and connections.
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Lincoln Park counts

Letter to the editor

01/04/2012

Lincoln Park is a valuable part of our city and residents here pay significant property taxes to support the City of Chicago. It's very disappointing that recent developments concerning the remapping of Chicago's Ward boundaries place an unfair burden on the people of Lincoln Park. New Ward boundaries could tear apart the fabric of well-established neighborhoods, all a result of old-style political jockeying.

Lincoln Park remap looks like chewed-up gum

Letter to the editor

01/04/2012

I am concerned that the two proposed remaps will divide the Lincoln Park community into three or five wards for the first time in history and do not respect our community's long time heritage.

Don't carve up Lincoln Park

Letter to the editor

01/04/2012

I am completely opposed to the proposed remap of the 43rd Ward. It is a cynical attempt to scramble the cohesion of a community that has chosen to elect an independent alderman and would break us up into four separate wards, making community planning a chaos.