Nearly every alderman in the Chicago City Council plans to take a raise next year, even as the city faces a daunting budget ...

Johnson’s contribution came from an individual who has only been accused of a felony. While it may be a huge public relations ...

I wasn’t exaggerating when I said that the City of Chicago has never had a mayor it despises more universally than Brandon Johnson ... ‘Let’s hope the Dems win the house back.’ ...

Property taxes could be going up soon in Chicago, after Mayor Brandon Johnson proposed a $300 million property tax hike to ...

Despite continued promises not to raise property taxes stemming back to his mayoral campaign, Mayor Brandon Johnson has ...

The race for president tops the list of federal, state and local contests in Illinois, where voters have supported the Democratic presidential nominee for decades but lower-ballot contests are more ...

A closely-watched congressional race in Western Illinois could tilt the balance of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Chicagoans will vote for an elected school board for the first time.

TIF time?: Even after eliminating 743 vacant positions, 400 of them in the Chicago Police Department, the mayor also needed a record tax increment financing surplus of $570 million. That’s $54.1 ...

The Chicago Teachers Union is working to use its newfound political power to win a broad set of “common good” demands while ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson is dropping his plan to veto a City ... 7 takeaways from the Chicago Bulls’ 102-99 win.

Chicago will start its transition this week to merge its two shelter systems, known as the One System Initiative, the mayor ...

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was catapulted into office as ... was a surprise hit to win the Chicago mayor’s race. He came up the ranks as an activist, even leading a hunger strike ...