Chicago ended 2024 with a $161 million deficit. And a state bill boosting benefits for police and fire pensioners through ...

Conservative Chicago residents ripped Mayor Brandon Johnson to his face at a Chicago City Council meeting this week, blasting him for raising taxes and catering to illegal immigrants.

Burnett, who also serves as City Hall's Zoning Committee chair, plans to step down from the City Council, regardless of ...

Dr. Willie Wilson. Wilson, who has owned a series of McDonald’s franchises and various companies, has a long history of running for office in Chicago, with mayoral runs in 2015 and 2019 and a ...

Chicago Decides: Q&A with mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot 29:47. Ald. Roderick Sawyer (6th) 's bid to be Chicago's next mayor is facing some steep odds. Sawyer does not have a big campaign war ...

Aldermen advanced an ordinance Monday that restricts when the city’s Law Department can attend investigative interviews.

Here's a look at some of the biggest stories to make headlines in 2024, including Mayor Brandon Johnson's clashes with the City Council to the end of the more than five-year-long Jussie Smollett saga.