Chicago Tribune Article Rating

Willie Wilson: What should Chicago and Illinois leaders do in 2025?

  • Bias Rating

    58% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    46% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -44% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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Overall Sentiment

4% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : Trump helped Republicans hold the House and retake the Senate.
41% : Perhaps Trump should reconsider pardoning those convicted of assaulting police officers on Jan. 6 -- if he wants to unify the country.
12% : Biden's blanket pardon of his son Hunter and some questionable commutations open the door for Trump to pardon those who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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