Only three months into this election year, there are already dozens of LGBTQ+ women candidates for state and local office ...

President Donald Trump hosts NATO secretary general Mark Rutte. The leader of the 32-member transatlantic military alliance meets Trump at a key moment for Europe and NATO, with Trump’s apparent ...

Several Black aldermen and clergy members rallied ahead of the meeting to urge the council to vote down a proposal from Ald.

The fur ban ordinance was an effort to fight animal cruelty, but opponents say it would have closed historic Chicago ...

The chair of City Council’s budget committee and the city’s chief financial officer told school board members they could ...

Alderpeople rejected Ald. Ray Lopez's proposal to ban the sale of new fur products by a 19-26 vote. Local fur shop owners ...

Furriers will be sticking around Chicago after City Council voted against a fur ban. Many who opposed the ban said it would have impacted Black-owned businesses.

The City Council is expected to vote on a $280,000 settlement to an activist who was struck and injured by a CPD officer in 2020.

The Portage City Council gave its blessing Tuesday for the 80-acre subdivision on the northwest corner of Swanson Road and County Road 700 North. Council members Ferdinand Alvarez and Melissa ...

who the mayor has tapped to head the Chicago Park District. Now, Quezada is having to explain the now-deleted tweet, in which he used a racial slur, to members of the City Council's Black Caucus.

Stack is a contributing Opinion writer, reporting from Chicago. The two men burst from ... Andre Vasquez, an alderman who is chair of the City Council’s committee on immigrant and refugee ...