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

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.

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 ...

As attorneys face off in courtrooms and federal agents on the ground clash with protesters, Chicago is being cemented as the epicenter of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown after a ...

CHICAGO — Aldermen on the city’s Finance Committee approved $15.5 million in taxpayer-funded legal settlements Wednesday to two families whose loved ones died, lawyers said, after police and Fire ...

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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 ...

The nation has been given a split screen view of Chicago. On one side, President Donald Trump declares the city a war-torn “hellhole” requiring deployment of National Guard troops to help enforce his ...

Gov. JB Pritzker called out the Trump administration on Sunday for defending its decision to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago as necessary to fight violent crime in the city, even though the ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Chicago city leaders gathered in Pilsen on Saturday to distribute “ICE-free zone” signs to local businesses that want to signal support for immigrant communities and push back against ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson claimed on Saturday that it’s “clear” President Donald Trump has “declared war” on his city and others. Velshi argued that Trump and others in his administration are ...