Mayor Johnson’s record-setting $1 billion TIF surplus highlights issues and abuse of Chicago’s Tax Increment Financing ...

Chicago keeps layering on new costs and making it harder to create jobs in the very neighborhoods that need them most.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson describes the 2026 budget as “Protecting Chicago,” but his plan seems to do the opposite. Taxes ...

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Harvey City Council votes to apply for financially distressed status, as Mayor Christopher Clark wars of partial shutdown of ...

The city’s police and fire pension funds will be “technically insolvent.” ...

Five hundred National Guard members have arrived in the Chicago area and are mobilized for an initial period of 60 days, despite an ongoing lawsuit challenging their deployment there, according to a ...

President Trump on Wednesday called for Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) to be jailed as the two leaders push back on the Trump administration’s crime crackdown and ...

FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News there were “110,000 gang members” active in Chicago after a visit to the city on Tuesday. Newsweek contacted the FBI and Chicago Police Department for comment on ...

Chicago was named the Best Big City in the United States by the Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards, marking the city's ninth year in a row of receiving the coveted award, the travel magazine ...

A Chicago alderman and former police officer is blasting the city’s mayor for politicizing the police force in response to recent reporting that the department was ordered not to assist federal ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois leaders went to court Monday to stop President Donald Trump from sending National Guard troops to Chicago, escalating a clash between Democratic-led states and the Republican ...