Good morning, Chicago.

Chicago has finished its negotiations with the teachers union, but other school districts in the state are about to see contract negotiations with their teachers ramp up. Fifty-two school districts across Illinois are going to see contracts with unions affiliated with the Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT) expire this year. The Chicago Teachers Union is affiliated with IFT, and the Tribune Editorial Board is worried that other unions may try to adopt its aggressive bargaining tactics.

“Teachers unions once could count on majority support from the public,” the board writes, but now that is not the case. And CTU President Stacy Davis Gates’ sometimes-controversial approach may not work in more red-tinged counties downstate.

The board also writes today that Chicago must move on from petty beefs over who is to blame for the Lincoln Yards development disaster. Instead, the city must look to the future.

Speaking of the future, our architecture columnist Edward Keegan wrote an extra column for us giving his first take on the Chicago Fire stadium plan, which is expected to break ground in 2026. Despite claiming to follow the “Chicago School” of architecture, Keegan writes that the current plans need something more unique to help the future stadium feel “distinctive and genuinely grounded in Chicago’s unique architectural culture.”

Also in commentary today, a Chicago-area high school student laments the Trump administration’s recent changes to the national suicide hotline in getting rid of a specific option for LGBTQ+ youths to connect with counselors. Also, an Iranian legal scholar delves deeply into the possibility of regime change in Iran, which she believes may bring about more chaos than stability.

Thanks for reading. We will be back tomorrow.

— Grace Miserocchi, opinion editor

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