Many Charlotte-area residents are familiar with some of the more notable figures in local Black history, people like Harvey Gantt, the first Black student accepted to enroll at Clemson University who ...

With his help, the bustling community Hodge once knew is starting to come back, and he said his 10 years as mayor have flown by.

Queens council member Joann Ariola took the helm of the council’s small GOP contingent after a prior vote to name Staten ...

Dorri McWhorter, who was the first Black woman to serve as CEO of the nonprofit, will depart at the end of this month. She ...

Chicago’s path to being a sanctuary city began more than 40 years ago. Here’s a look at the leaders and laws that have shaped Chicago’s involvement with the sanctuary movement.

Around a quarter of the department’s staff has resigned or been fired since Mayor Brandon Johnson appointed Hedspeth in March.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's office is under fire for allegedly trying to censor video of a contentious City Council ...

Josh Kraft, a political newcomer who is running as a Democrat, said his top priority was addressing the city’s housing crisis ...

As President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown grips the Chicago area in fear, a burgeoning resistance movement has also ...

After an 11th-hour lobbying effort by Chicago Mayor Brandon ... did not reach out to them before lobbying against the legislation, though he suspected that the mayor did not have as much to ...

Emanuel’s successor, Lori Lightfoot, went with political theater when she sought to upstage Trump’s new Chicago director of U ...

After nine months of ham-fisted stabs at power politics ... The prospect of the former CTU organizer taking the side of striking teachers even as he holds the office of mayor of Chicago isn’t ...