Growing occasionally emotional, former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday testified during a bench trial that she was disturbed and traumatized by a profane and racist death threat sent to her ...

Several Chicago school board members requested that outside experts opine on the school district’s budget woes at the first ...

Cameras mounted on six CTA buses will begin issuing warnings and tickets in July or August, the transit agency said.

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration keeps pushing Chicago Public Schools to maintain payments to a pension fund for ...

The Chicago Board of Education is poised to vote on an amendment to the district’s 2024-25 budget that accounts for $139 ...

Ald. Brian Hopkins said he plans to revive his ordinance for an earlier curfew after a tourist was shot last weekend near the ...

Heeding opposition from Black clergy and the Black Caucus, the City Council voted 26 to 19 not to impose a ban on the sale of ...

Over the last decade, The Foilies have called out officials at all levels of government and in every part of the country (and ...

When Gavin Newsom said this week that allowing transgender athletes to play women’s sports was “deeply unfair,” many reacted ...

Wednesday to pay $280,000 to activist Miracle Boyd, who was struck by a Chicago police officer during a protest in Grant Park ...

The money will compensate Boyd for being roughed up and having her front tooth knocked out during a 2020 protest at the ...

Many Chicagoans were anxious when Mayor Brandon Johnson accepted an invitation to testify Wednesday before U.S. Congress on the city’s sanctuary policy.