Good morning.

The editorial board has two items to offer today. First is our take on the growing dispute between aldermen and the mayor's office over whether a $3 million-plus Ernst & Young study on cost-cutting opportunities within city government should be shared with the City Council and the public without City Hall first "filtering" the subject matter. It probably won't be a surprise where the board lands on that.

Secondly, the board ponders the Chicago Bears' demand for "certainty" on its property taxes over the coming decades before beginning construction of a new stadium in Arlington Heights. To which we respond, we should all be so lucky.

Chicago attorney Michael Peregrine, who's written for our section before, has a remembrance of 9/11, focusing on Chicago's experience that day.

Willie Wilson, a regular contributor, mourns the growing belief among his fellow citizens that the American Dream is dead.

And a young woman who has connected via TikTok with fellow "previvors" — women with a genetic predisposition to develop breast and ovarian cancer — writes of the dramatic steps she took to protect herself.

As always, we have readers' letters as well. Have a great day, and we'll be here again tomorrow.

— Steve Daniels, editorial board member

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