The City of Chicago is searching for financial solutions amidst hundreds of pending police misconduct cases, spending more ...

Wilson spent 36 years in prison before a judge determined he was tortured into a false confession by disgraced former CPD ...

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 ...

Ald. Walter Burnett, 27th, the most veteran sitting member of the City Council, chuckled recently when he heard the quote. “Isn’t that something? This is real talk in Chicago.” ...

”For me, the relationship with City Council has been one of more space to have dissent and to express some level of independence. That doesn’t intimidate me because I’m confident in the position that ...

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. U.S. fires head of military base in ...

River City was heightened reality, but gently heightened. It was about real people’s lives, taking the essence of kitchen sink dramas onto the screen. We loved the Tall Ship stories of crushed ...

- 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 ...

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 ...