Revenue ideas include taxes on bottled water, liquor, plastic bags and retail deliveries and restoring a $4-a-month employee head tax. Cost-cutting options include flexible furlough days for city ...

The city stepped in with $28 million in short-term loans to a city pension fund amid a computer glitch and budget shortfall.

Chicago is stepping in to lend cash to its underfunded pensions so they have enough money to avoid asset sales to cover ...

The report offers “89 preliminary options to improve operations, generate new revenue, and pursue strategic opportunities, ...

A final vote on both proposals, which would create 786 new homes, including 237 units of affordable housing, is set for the Sept. 25 City Council meeting.

As President Donald Trump has recently threatened to send federal troops to clean up Chicago’s violence, local officials have ...

Chicago, Illinois BEFORE DONALD TRUMP RETURNED to power, the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) ...

In the end, it was Timothy Evans’ peers who decided his time was up as chief judge in Cook County. In a surprise, Evans lost ...

The food and music festival had been bounced from the spot by NASCAR three years ago. But with the race not taking place in ...

The mayor of Chicago pushed back Saturday against what he called the “out-of-control” Trump administration's plan to surge federal officers into the nation’s third-largest city, which could take place ...

Taste of Chicago will return to its long-held July slot in Grant Park next summer, the city’s cultural commissioner told ...