Comment: Better late than never for the Tribune to wake up to this. We detailed the suicidal, impossible situation for the south suburbs three years ago here. Crain’s, too, covered it long ago. The disaster long preceded the tax break backfire discussed in this article.

For every dollar DuPage County taxpayers send to Springfield, the state returns 31 cents.

Despite a real estate market with really short market times that leaves homebuyers scrambling for opportunities the Chicago area’s home prices continue to struggle to rise in line with the rest of the nation.

A metaphor for Chicago government.

Get this: “Chief Financial Officer Carole Brown told aldermen the city may sell even more than $10 billion in pension obligation bonds if there’s enough available city revenue to support it.”

Chicago will no longer be exempted from a state law barring Illinois municipalities from imposing ticket quotas on local police departments.