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

Only 17% of buildings in a Chicago Fire Department bureau database for fire code violations have received required annual ...

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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Appropriation & Staffing Changes from 2025 Budget 2025 Budgeted 2026 Proposed Net Change Percent Change Average Annual Change ...

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.” ...

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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 ...