Ald. Brian Hopkins blinked after his powerful co-sponsors — Budget Chair Jason Ervin and Finance Chair Pat Dowell — asked for ...

The city appears on pace to hit Mayor Johnson’s 2025 goal: fewer than 500 murders for the first time in a decade.

After hours of debate, a vote on a revised youth curfew proposal is on hold for now. The proposal would give the police ...

After more than five hours of debate, the Chicago City Council’s Public Safety Committee took no action on the plan, backed ...

Changes could be coming to Chicago’s curfew rules, despite Mayor Brandon Johnson’s objections, in order to address the so-called teen takeovers downtown that have led to violence. The ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is in Springfield on Tuesday night as he prepares for a series of important budget meetings happening Wednesday with the governor and leading lawmakers. But he's not the ...

Several major blue cities in the U.S. have been marred by a slate of massive budgetary problems in recent years.

Deputy Brandon Sikes was killed and Deputy Gavin White was critically injured in a shootout on I-20 near Exit 194, and the ...

Throughout the campaign French has attacked the concept of diversity, for which many Mansfield residents are proud. Designed, ...

David Holt reminds us that our obligation is to speak and act against the forces of evil and those who would act against ...

The body of a veteran Chicago fire captain was transported from the Cook County morgue to Malec & Sons Funeral Home on the ...

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin announced Wednesday morning he is retiring and will not run for reelection in 2026. "I truly love ...