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 ...

The year-long debate over who will pay for the pensions of non-teaching Chicago Public Schools employees ended after a tense, hours-long meeting where the Chicago Board of Education voted to agree ...

Rules Chair Michelle Harris (8th), Transportation Chair Greg Mitchell (7th) and Black Caucus Chair Stephanie Coleman (16th) ...

A majority of aldermen signed onto a letter Thursday objecting to reinstating Chicago’s head tax and other components of ...

A Supreme Court ruling, while technically temporary, could set the ground rules for National Guard deployments elsewhere in the country. By Ann E. Marimow Reporting from Washington State and local ...

Members of the Milwaukee Common Council’s Finance & Personnel Committee held a public hearing this morning at the Milwaukee Public Library’s Martin Luther King Jr. Branch to gather community input on ...

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 ...

The Chicago History Museum will explore the heritage and traditions of Latinos, and the National Museum of Mexican Art will trace the role of Mexicans in railway work. A detail from “Ferrocarrileros,” ...