When Evanstonian Mike Petroshus heard late last month that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had ordered the Navy to strip the ...

Former Chicago alderman Carrie Austin, indicted in 2021 for allegedly receiving home improvements from contractors seeking ...

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

The U.S. Department of Justice sued the city of Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass and City Council members Monday, calling its sanctuary city law “illegal” and asking ...

‘Our people hire our people’: Long before DOJ probe into Chicago mayor, racial politics coursed through City Hall hiring ...

There were the infamous Council Wars under Mayor Harold Washington. Under Lightfoot, the City Council voted to give themselves greater independence and autonomy from mayoral control. Johnson said he ...

The Chicago City Council's Finance Committee said no to approving a million-dollar settlement for a man killed last year during a West Side traffic stop.

Paradoxically, however, as audience figures dropped, producers doubled down with the gangster storylines, chasing the ratings with sensationalist tales of human trafficking, gun threats and drug wars.

- Mayor Brandon Johnson's plan to issue $830 million in bonds to fund various infrastructure projects – scheduled for a final vote by the Chicago City Council on Wednesday – is facing pushback ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The Chicago City Council on Monday narrowly approved Mayor Brandon Johnson's fourth budget proposal—after yet another contentious hearing that involved lengthy speeches by ...

The Chicago City Council on Friday handed Mayor Brandon Johnson a defeat in his quest to pass a $17.3 billion budget package that includes a $68.5 million increase to the property tax levy.

Amid ongoing talks to close Chicago’s projected $982.4 million budget deficit in fiscal year 2025, City Council batted back Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed $300 million property tax increase to help ...