The big punch-line: “I’ll take on the biggest bully of them all. Because underdogs? We fight harder,” the congressman ...

The program is called Scaling Community Violence Intervention for a safer Chicago or SC2. Tuesday, local leaders and advocates mark the one-year anniversary of the effort they say so far has been a ...

It is unclear whether Mayor Brandon Johnson has enough political muscle to convince at least 25 alderpeople to buck the ...

Chicago is in another cycle of losing too many corporate headquarters. So it’s bad news for the city that Kraft-Heinz is ...

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 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.

Newly elected Dolton Mayor Jason House said on July 10 that a steering committee would be formed in order to plan how to ...

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.