Readers from around the world asked about Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s surprising primary win, its effect on national ...

The top Democrat in the House, Hakeem Jeffries, has compared ICE to the Gestapo and says its agents should not be able to wear masks while they are arresting illegal immigrants. Some Democrats think ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Extreme temperatures during the summer of 1995 caught Chicago off guard. A relentless heat wave settled over the city, and with no clear emergency plan, the response fell dangerously ...

Chicago heat wave, which took place 30 years ago this week, remains the Chicago area's deadliest weather disaster.

The measure unanimously endorsed by the Ethics and Government Oversight Committee had the support of both Inspector General Deborah Witzburg and Corporation Counsel Mary Richardson-Lowry after ...

The grants are funded by a multi-billion dollar Volkswagen settlement and will be distributed by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.

The Chicago City Council could vote to override Mayor Brandon Johnson's veto of a snap curfew measure for teenagers.

In a unanimous vote at a special board meeting held on July 1, the village council of Dolton, Illinois, voted to purchase the ...

A City Council push to wrest power away from Mayor Brandon Johnson and his successors by requiring more aldermanic support to issue debt narrowly failed to advance Monday.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Chicago office will now oversee 65 public housing authorities ...

The city will use Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o, for employees like nurses and social workers to ...

Like Chicago's first Black mayor, New York City's Zohran Mamdani rise has unsettled Wall Street, the political elite and media gatekeepers. The attacks haven't dissuaded voters.