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Chicago Tribune Opinion

Monday, June 15, 2026

 
 

Good morning.

Yes, your property tax bills are to be late again. No, this is not acceptable from Cook County says the Tribune Editorial Board. We explain why below.

Sunday, Tribune Opinion offered a major package of stories about the Obama Presidential Center, including the editorial board's verdict on who are the biggest winners from the arrival of this new asset to Chicago (not who you might expect). We also published a joint op-ed from both Valerie Jarrett, who is running the OPC and Chevy Humphrey, the head of the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry. And our columnist Laura Washington explained exactly what is going on inside the OPC branch of the Chicago Public Library.

Monday's editorial deals with a very tricky and au courant issue: the new role of ChatGPT in the storied professions, such as law. We take you through a case in which a woman used artificial intelligence to file not one but several lawsuits, meaning that the target of those lawsuits had to spend a small fortune to bat them all away. Big law firms are showing interest in the case because of this question: If ChatGPT is helping with your lawsuit, does that mean ChatGPT is practicing law without a license?

Heck, medicine could be next.

Also today, our Clarence Page writes about Graham Platner, Joe Ferguson, always a must-read, takes on the debt load at Chicago Public Schools and Mark Lewyn looks at a topic that always has fascinated me: unclaimed money. Why in this day and age, Lewyn wonders, does money sit in state coffers (to the tune of billions of dollars) when it surely would not be hard to find the real owners?

Why indeed? This is just the kind of provocative piece we like to bring you.

One final thing: I loved the piece we ran this weekend by a resident of Hammond putting anti-Hoosier Bears fans right on a number of points about the likely new site of a certain football team. It's both funny and, well, totally on the money. Something the Bears understand. 

Have a great Monday. 

— Chris Jones, editorial page editor

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Editorial: About Toni Preckwinkle’s primary election promises on timely property tax bills

Once again, Cook County property tax bills will be mailed late. Cue the buck-passing.

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Editorial: Why Chicagoans should welcome, and care for, the Obama Presidential Center

Even a digital presidency should remain tactile and defined by place.

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Laura Washington: The public library at the Obama Presidential Center rises above it all

The public library at the Obama center will be a gift to the community, where we can seek credibility and substance. A literary sanctuary.

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Chevy Humphrey and Valerie Jarrett: The Griffin MSI and Obama center are creating a new chapter on the South Side

The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry is a place where people come to learn. And now, the Obama center joins in that tradition.

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Editorial: All rise! ChatGPT stands accused of practicing law without a license in Chicago

No case will ever be closed if machines are permitted to do our thinking for us.

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Clarence Page: Graham Platner’s populist challenge excites Dems — cautiously

There’s a lot of populist appeal in Graham Platner’s spiel. And in keeping with these times, he is wrestling with scandal.

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