Editorials

		Daily Herald opinion: Crisis Recovery Center in DuPage provides blueprint for making behavioral health care more accessible This Daily Herald editorial applauds DuPage County officials for building a Crisis Recovery Center that will serve as a model for how other communities across the state and nation could make behavioral health care more accessible.

		Daily Herald opinion: Untied but apparently unconcerned: Given new authority, Mundelein seems uninterested in settling development flap On Friday, Gov. JB Pritzker signed legislation that was intended to enable Mundelein village leaders to impose impact fees on a development that could place heavy new dem...

		Daily Herald opinion: Vaccines a key part of the back-to-school checklist Daily Herald opinion: Setting politics aside, vaccination offers important protections, as well as valuable health and history lessons.

Letters to the Editor

Columns

		For America, it’s time to count what really counts Syndicated columnist Keith Raffel: There's more to making the United States the kind of country we want to live in than can be found in economic indicators alone. But there are other vitally important numbers that should also affect our national policies.

		Newsom’s ambition and gerrymandering Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders:

		The silence of the whales Syndicated columnist Marc Munroe Dion: Normally, whale life is a kind of homelessness. They drift around, not caring where they'll be tomorrow, and they eat whatever they can find. There used to be three or four people in the brush at the end of my street who lived pretty much the same way.

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