Mayor Brandon Johnson defended his 2026 budget proposal Thursday following a rating agency lowering its outlook on the city ...

Allowing CPD to spend unlimited sums of taxpayer money is a “crazy way to run a city,” said Justin Marlowe, a professor in ...

The city paid accounting giant Ernst & Young $3.2 million to pinpoint as much as $1.4 billion in savings and ...

Chicago’s budget has grown by nearly 40% since 2019 with the biggest increased expenditure going toward pensions and debt already incurred.

Despite the opposition from at least half of City Council, Governor JB Pritzker, civic and business groups, Mayor Brandon ...

Federal Reserve Gov. Stephen Miran said Wednesday he thinks it "would still be a reasonable action" for the Fed to continue ...

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Mayor Brandon Johnson spent more than three minutes defending his 2026 budget proposal Thursday, despite warnings that it could lead to another downgrade of Chicago’s credit rating.

Trump said Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker "should be in jail" for their response to immigration officers. (Scott Olson / Getty Images) President Donald Trump said in a ...

Vice President JD Vance slammed Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Sunday, saying he should "suffer some consequences" for his handling of Chicago’s high crime rate. "I think that Governor Pritzker has ...

Zohran Mamdani, after a triumphant campaign built on progressive ideas and a relentless focus on affordability, will become ...

In a Truth Social post on Wednesday, President Trump said Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker "should be in jail." "Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice ...