Charles Selle

Gurnee

Managing Editor at Lake County News-Sun

Managing Editor Lake County News-Sun covering the area with @reporterbeth @robertkelder @abderholden @annatarkov @newssun

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Column: Before state reform, the RTA needs to heal itself

1 week ago | chicagotribune.com | Charles Selle

Whenever Illinois lawmakers start talking reform, we should start to be wary. Very wary. Some of our legislators want to redesign the region’s mass transit agencies before they adjourn the legislative session at the end of the month. Our elected officials in Springfield can’t reform themselves when it comes to campaign funding, misconduct and budgeting.
Column: Trump’s tariff war spurs Lake County trade crusade

1 week ago | chicagotribune.com | Charles Selle

Lake County is becoming proactive when it comes to economic development in the area. The timing couldn’t be better. Business leaders, along with elected officials, recently became globalists, traveling to Mexico and Japan to tout the laurels of doing business here and in Illinois.
Column: Crimo the latest murderer sent to Stateville

2 weeks ago | chicagotribune.com | Charles Selle

Authorities quickly hustled convicted mass murderer Robert Crimo III out of the Lake County jail last week and to his new home at Stateville Correctional Center. Surely, Lake County corrections officers weren’t sad to see him pack up and go.
Column: Rise of gambling has given way to gaming addictions

2 weeks ago | chicagotribune.com | Charles Selle

Apparently, there’s a cost to turning Illinois into a giant gaming casino, but it isn’t high enough to turn back the clock on the thousands of gambling dens currently in operation. The latest example is what the Lake County Board did the other day. The county’s legislative body approved doubling down on gambling addiction and allocated $800,000 in video gaming revenue to area social services agencies.
Column: Debate rages over names of Illinois school teams

3 weeks ago | chicagotribune.com | Charles Selle

Highland Park High School dropped the adjective “little” from its Giants sports teams decades ago. Which is fortunate, for the school could have found itself outside the law under a bill snaking its way through the state legislature. The long-winded Prohibition of Discriminatory Disability Mascots Act passed the Illinois House of Representatives earlier this month and moves on to the state Senate, where it undoubtedly will be adopted and await Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s signature. Sponsored by state Rep.
Column: Earth Day reminds us of environmental blunders

3 weeks ago | chicagotribune.com | Charles Selle

Current thinking among many Americans is that the federal government is a hindrance to our freedoms. The opposite was true 55 years ago. That’s when President Richard Nixon signed the act creating the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and proclaiming April 22 as Earth Day. The day has since morphed into a month, which is OK because the planet needs all the help it can get. The beginnings of the EPA started with bipartisan support.
Column: Plans being made to celebrate our semiquincentennial

4 weeks ago | chicagotribune.com | Charles Selle

Here’s a word you’ll be hearing more and more next year: Semiquincentennial. Spellcheck will question if it’s a real word. It is. It means a 250th anniversary. Which is what the U.S. will be celebrating next year, marking our daring break from Great Britain and the founding of the nation. Wasn’t it just the other day we had the nation’s bicentennial in 1976, during the Swingin’ Seventies? Time does fly.
Column: To be frank, Illinois residents love their ballpark hot dogs

1 month ago | chicagotribune.com | Charles Selle

With turmoil all around in recent weeks, an escape to big league baseball is one way of calming fears of what the next three years in America may look like. It worked so well on the American psyche in past decades that the game became our national pastime. Along with that ballpark visit comes enjoying an all-American hot dog. Despite many major league teams pushing various sophisticated food offerings, the classic red hot remains the most popular game-day food for sports fans in Illinois.
Library funding faces uncertain future

1 month ago | chicagotribune.com | Charles Selle

Thousands of Lake Countians were on the march over the weekend to protest what’s been happening as the administration of President Donald Trump enters its fourth month. Most were ordinary Americans, not wild-eyed left-wingers as all the president’s men would have us believe. Indeed, many hadn’t ever manned a picket line, but there they were, crowding around the busy intersection of Grand Avenue and Hunt Club Road in Gurnee, which is not exactly a hotbed of revolutionary fervor.
Column: Durbin needs to run again for Senate seat

1 month ago | chicagotribune.com | Charles Selle

As Dick Durbin huddles with his family and allies to determine his political future, one name should be in the mix to convince him to seek re-election to another Senate term: Donald Trump. With chaos abounding in Washington, D.C., and spreading westward, the state’s senior senator is needed more than ever to corral an out-of-control executive branch. In this perilous era, there’s no time for on-the-job training in the nation’s capital.