Ald. Walter Burnett Jr. may leave City Hall — eyeing the CHA, Congress or private sector — and pass his seat to one of his ...

Felony charges have been filed against six people accused of conspiring to traffic drugs in Chicago last year. According to ...

The North Lawndale Chamber of Commerce is demanding an apology and accountability from the Chicago Park District, after a ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s inner circle worked with outside lobbyists who were not registered to lobby on behalf of the city in the Illinois General Assembly, a practice his office defended after ...

1986: Hard Rock Cafe opened in Chicago. Mayor Harold Washington and Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon were among its first guests. TV host Oprah Winfrey attended the opening with Stedman Graham, ...

The tenth anniversary of the 2015 Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage holds meaning for those who paved ...

Forty feet underground, the city's once-bustling system of freight tunnels remains. Social media videos show adventurers and ...

HE’s DOING IT: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is set to announce on Thursday that he’ll seek a third term in 2026, leaving open ...

Record-breaking heat indices — a combination of temperatures and humidity to determine how heat really feels to the body — are possible from Kansas City to Maine.

Michael Madigan will follow Ed Burke to federal prison, arguably ending Irish political leadership stretching back 150 years ...

Chicagoans can expect intense heat compounded by muggy humidity for the next several days. The National Weather Service has ...

A judge has denied singer R. Kelly’s request for furlough from prison after the convicted sex offender accused federal prison officials of plotting to murder him. U.S.