Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) ran on a campaign pledge to not raise property taxes. He tried anyway, was rejected, and is ...

Others joining the opposition to a booze tax include the Illinois Retail Merchants Association, the Hospitality Business Association of Chicago, the Illinois National Independent Venue Association, ...

Chicago police agreed to judicial oversight in 2019. Since then, a series of mayors and police chiefs let efforts languish ...

Chicago hosts hundreds of street festivals each year, with approximately 1,300 events held between 2021 and 2023. During that period, nearly 2,800 Chicago police officers logged a combined total of 27 ...

The debate among Republicans over whether to punt government funding into the new year is heating up, as lawmakers race ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson is now proposing hiking Chicago property taxes by $150 million, down from his original $300 million ...

Often referred to as the most segregated city in the U.S. by media outlets like WBEZ Chicago and 14East, Chicago, Illinois, ...

A major compromise is in the works to cut in half Mayor Brandon Johnson's proposed $300 million property tax hike.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson laid out his latest 2025 budget proposal for Chicago Tuesday, which includes a $150 million ...

Chicago’s credit rating is threatened as the city mulls using one-time budget-balancing measures to close a gaping shortfall, ...

A group of more than a dozen Chicago-area elected officials and nearly two dozen neighborhood organizations hosted a ...

Aldermen fretted about the Chicago Fire Department’s aging vehicle fleet and sure-to-be-expensive union contract Tuesday as ...