Good morning, Chicago.

Domestic violence in Chicago and surrounding municipalities is on the rise. Several heartbreaking incidents over the past year have put this issue into the spotlight, but the Tribune Editorial Board still doesn’t think it is getting enough attention.

In its other piece today, the board critiques the new contract deal struck between the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools. The deal avoids layoffs and cuts at CPS, but will cost the district an estimated $1.5 billion over four years. “The average CPS teacher will surpass $110,000 in salary by the end of the contract. Can CPS really afford that? We’ll find out,” the board writes.

Columnist Laura Washington writes about Sen. Bernie Sanders seemingly passing the progressive leadership torch to U.S. Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez. Washington asks: What about Sen. Elizabeth Warren?

Steve Chapman is back this week with a piece comparing the recent red-state crackdown on out-of-state abortion providers to the Fugitive Slave Act during the Civil War. A former Illinois politician writes about the recent lawsuit that state Republicans filed over gerrymandering and why he thinks Democrats on the Supreme Court should recuse themselves from weighing in on this issue.

Thanks for reading. We will be back tomorrow.

— Grace Miserocchi, opinion editor

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