Money owed on student loans has more than tripled, growing to $1.73 trillion from $520 billion since 2006. Ms. Koch graduated ...

Gun violence is highest in Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods, where organizers say tackling poverty is the only way to create ...

Mayor John Horhn was sworn in as Jackson’s new mayor Tuesday, calling for unity, urgency and "the delivery of hope." ...

County data show that Chicago could be on track to record fewer than 500 homicides this year, which would be the lowest total ...

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Zohran Mamdani, the presumptive winner of yesterday’s New York City mayoral primary, might provide some of the answers—to a ...

The future of a "snap curfew" for Chicago teens will come down to a vote on whether to overturn Mayor Brandon Johnson's veto ...

Many kids are dealing with trauma and poverty. They need guidance, protection and boundaries, not chaos. A veto doesn’t ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Friday vetoed an expanded curfew ordinance that passed at Wednesday's City Council meeting. "At a time when violent crime continues to trend down across the City of ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed a veto of a teen curfew ordinance Friday that had narrowly passed City Council earlier this week, his office confirmed.

Mayor Brandon Johnson blasted the ordinance approved by a clear majority of aldermen and said he planned to issue a rare mayoral veto (the first since 2006, the Richard M. Daley era) in coming days.