By June 1983, the Council Wars had so effectively entered Chicago’s political vocabulary that comedian Aaron Freeman could make a successful cabaret show of the City Hall squabbles.

There was no way the white-dominated Chicago City Council would concede power to a black man, mayor or not. So, the infamous Council Wars were on, as an all-white majority of 29 aldermen ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Mayor Lori Lightfoot has it easy with the Chicago City Council compared to what Harold Washington inherited when he took office in 1983, but as aldermen continue to flex their ...

Officials with the federal Bureau of Prisons on Tuesday confirmed that Burke, 81, had been transferred from the Federal ...

CHICAGO — A former prominent member of the Chicago City Council has pleaded guilty to tax evasion in a scheme to help a lawyer foil the Internal Revenue Service. Edward Vrdolyak (ver-DOH’-lee ...

Lori Lightfoot denounced the City Council as corrupt, then turned around and shamed all 50 members, who were seated behind her, into joining the cheering crowd in a standing ovation for reform.

And Johnson is not entirely wrong. Since 1995, Chicago’s mayor has had the sole authority to appoint board members, who then vote on the school district’s CEO, without City Council input.

WE SPENT THE DAY in the Chicago City Council meeting, where there was a lot of drama. ... “Maybe the acrimony didn’t rival the ‘Council Wars’ power struggle of the 1980s, ...