Arlington Heights residents' Netflix bills may cost more soon. The city is considering a streaming tax to help cover the cost of staffing another ambulance. If any of this sounds familiar, it's because Chicago implemented a digital amusement tax in 2015.

“Suburbanites should take notice of this trend. As Chicago has demonstrated repeatedly, once a new tax is adopted, it only goes up,” the Tribune Editorial Board writes.

The board also turns its attention to a Chicago nepo baby in the making. Ald. Walter Burnett Jr. announced that he will step down from City Council, and naturally, he wants his son to take his place. Walter Burnett III may want to give back to his community, but the board says that he needs to run for the seat. Don’t miss editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis’ take below on Burnett’s “family business.”

Another alderman, Brian Hopkins, is in our section today calling for Chicago to get its act together and regulate synthetic hemp.

Clarence Page weighs in this week on the Jeffrey Epstein drama. Is it over? Nope, he says. Our architecture columnist Edward Keegan writes about a new museum dedicated to the history of public housing in Chicago. And Dr. Cory Franklin reflects on how the 1995 heat wave caused the city to change its emergency response.

The University of Chicago is hosting a conference about nuclear war this week. Terrifying, but necessary, the board says. Clifford Ando is back in our section examining how prepared the university on the South Side is for the Trump age.

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