Good morning, Chicago. Our state lawmakers are back in Springfield for the fall veto session, and they’ve got a long to-do list. One item that did not make the cut, though, is a megaprojects bill the Bears say is a must for them to build a new stadium in Arlington Heights.

The Tribune Editorial Board thinks the delay in consideration of the measure is a good thing. The board weighs the merits of the bill and believes the initial draft needs tinkering, especially the threshold for which projects would qualify. “We can’t see how any project worth less than $500 million could be considered ‘mega,’” the board writes.

In its other piece, the board acknowledges that while we don’t know for certain what will unfold in Gaza, there is virtue in President Donald Trump declaring that the war is over and a new day has come in the Middle East. Our foreign affairs columnist Daniel DePetris, on the other hand, presents a persuasive case as to why Trump’s triumphant words are premature and misleading.

Also in Tribune Opinion, a University of Chicago professor and a lawyer argue in an op-ed that masking by ICE agents is not defensible in the courts. And two professors report that many Jewish Americans find Trump’s targeting of universities over antisemitism to be disingenuous at best.

In our letters, the head of a utility consumer advocacy group urges state lawmakers to pass a bill that would add battery storage to the power grid, leading to lower power bills, and a former Chicago housing commissioner argues that preserving residential buildings in Edgewater — and not ambitiously upzoning Broadway — is the best way to help residents.

We’ll see you tomorrow.

— Colleen Kujawa, opinion editor

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