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Chicago 2050: Stacy Davis Gates writes on how CPS will be rooted in sustainability in 25 years
Stacy Davis Gates is president of the Chicago Teachers Union and the Illinois Federation of Teachers. In imagining our city’s future, there’s one institution at the heart of…
Read MoreChicago 2050: Poet Leslé Honoré envisions an ‘Emerald City’ in our future
Leslé Honoré is a poet and the author of “Fist and Fire,” “Brown Girl Brown Girl” and “My Brown Boy.” She is CEO of Urban Gateways and the mother of…
Read MoreChicago 2050: Ashish Sharma on how the city will learn to live with weather
Ashish Sharma leads the Climate Hub at the Discovery Partners Institute, part of the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has a joint appointment at…
Read MoreChicago 2050: IDOT’s secretary writes about the future of transportation in ‘The City that Works’
Gia Biagi is secretary of the Illinois Department of Transportation. Chicago might have too many nicknames. We’re the Windy City. The City of the Big Shoulders. City in…
Read MoreChicago 2050: Daniel Holz writes about pursuing progress and avoiding doomsday
Daniel Holz is a professor of physics at the University of Chicago, studying black holes. He is also chair of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the…
Read MoreChicago 2050: Laura Washington wants to bring glittering downtown institutions to the city’s neighborhoods
Laura Washington is a political commentator and longtime Chicago journalist. Her columns appear in the Tribune every other Wednesday. Write to her at LauraLauraWashington@gmail.com. The future of Chicago resides…
Read MoreChicago 2050: Tracy Baim writes about the city’s next transformational ‘Great Migration’
Tracy Baim is executive director of Press Forward Chicago, a pooled fund for local journalism based at The Chicago Community Trust. She co-founded Windy City Times in 1985 and was…
Read MoreChicago 2050: Tonika Lewis Johnson imagines a city skyline that bridges racial dividing lines
Tonika Lewis Johnson is a Chicago-based photographer and social justice artist. She was the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” in 2025. Imagine discovering that someone else…
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