Officials are lobbying aldermen to install a progressive Zoning Committee chair while winning over the council’s powerful ...

Some of the nation’s most prominent Black mayors are celebrating major drops in crime in their cities — and grumbling that ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson challenged Trump's views at the C40 climate conference, detailing the city's environmental ...

The Hazel Johnson ordinance moved to the city’s zoning committee after months of gridlock and opposition from real estate groups and labor unions.

President Donald Trump hinted at stepped-up federal enforcement efforts in Chicago in an Aug. 25 post on Truth Social, following it up with a meme based on a famous character from the movie ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson called President Trump out for politicizing government departments after the indictment of former FBI director James Comey.

I grew up roaming the halls of this building, learning a lot about what it means to be a public servant, and what it really ...

City attorneys have said that taking the lawsuits to trial would have cost the city far more — up to $500 million — to resolve the avalanche of wrongful conviction cases tied to former Sgt. Ronald ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson's plan to reshuffle committee leadership and alliances failed to secure the necessary 26 votes in the ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s City Council revamp became a casualty of his diminished clout Thursday — the Council only voted install Walter Burnett’s son, Walter Redmond Burnett, to replace his father as ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson had hoped to reshuffle the City Council members who hold the reins of the body’s powerful committees.

A proposal to name Ald. Daniel La Spata, 1st, as Zoning chair and Ald. Emma Mitts, 37th, vice-mayor "crashed and burned" ...