To address the breadth and depth of the need to remediate outdated schools at a time of worsening weather extremes, Chicago needs an estimated $30 billion, two educators write.

Live theater in Chicago is in trouble. But the show must go on — and all of us have a role to play in making sure it does.

I’ve always lived in Chicago and have felt comfortable going just about anywhere, but now that criminals are emboldened, I’m afraid to go out, a reader from Irving Park writes.

It’s not illegal for hate groups to spread their message via leaflets or protests, and that’s happening far more often these days, an Anti-Defamation League report found. It’s important to stop their rhetoric before it leads to harm.

Here are Wednesday's editorials: "Seen any good theater lately? Now is the time" https://t.co/HRoxtg6X6G "We must fight back against the propaganda that fuels hate crimes" https://t.co/0x96Q4k0HJ

From @CSTOpinion: "How come the same parents who shrug off the very real prospect of their kids being murdered at school line up at board meetings to scream about 'Gender Queer'?" @NeilSteinberg writes. "It’s a puzzlement."

An ordinance to be introduced this month would set Chicago on a managed transition away from the use of expensive, unhealthy natural gas, City Council members William Hall and Timmy Knudsen write.

The correct action here would be a “yes” vote from the Commission on Chicago Landmarks, an important prelude to the factory’s redevelopment.

Traffic stops of Black drivers don’t prove police are guilty of racial profiling

Striking UAW members see the fear-mongering of the auto industry. Americans are being told we have a Hobson’s choice on electric vehicles: We can have them, but only at a cost to our neighbors who build them.

African Americans are the only racial or ethnic group in Cook County whose suicide rates are now higher than they were at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The city should maintain its policy of non-cooperation with federal immigration authorities, Ald. Anthony Beale writes, but needs federal help to afford the rising cost of resettling asylum seekers.

Let’s create a curriculum on Fred Hampton’s life. In contrast to the myth of the “gun-toting” Black Panthers, they laid the groundwork for many of the social service programs we know today, such as school breakfasts, day care and sickle cell testing.

Tent pitched across from Chicago’s Ritz-Carlton causes a stir

Women make up 70% of the wait staff in Chicago, and of 746 occupations analyzed recently, wait staff had the lowest median annual earnings, just $21,000.

Here are Tuesday's editorials: "Sweet move: Chicago seeks to landmark West Side’s historic Mars candy factory" https://t.co/mD8Oxryahm "Rising Black suicide rate demands attention" https://t.co/sfZ6GGETub

Somebody — probably Congress or the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission — has to figure out how to get these projects up and running.

Goals should be accompanied by concrete ideas — not vague intended actions.

Republicans urge the ignorant to ‘just say no’ to science

If some critical mass of Republicans had demonstrated the requisite political courage in 2016, it would never have come to this — that in the U.S., political and other figures must think about their physical safety before deciding how to speak or vote.