Fencing has been installed at Ogden Plaza in Chicago's Streeeterville section to help deter potential teen takeovers. Ald.

1983: Harold Washington was elected Chicago’s first Black mayor. Washington, a U.S. representative who also served in the ...

With the next Chicago mayoral race still two years away, Mayor Brandon Johnson has $1.16 million in the bank. But some ...

After more than 40 years of public service, Skokie Mayor George Van Dusen is packing up his office and embarking on a new adventure: retirement.

"Trying to force your will to break the spirit of working people in order to have a conversation? That's terrorism. We're not ...

CBS News Chicago spent months trying to get a simple answer from Lynwood Mayor Jada Curry about her salary, after hearing from residents that Curry was taking home nearly triple the amount in the ...

Chicago’s public school teachers have overwhelmingly approved a four-year labor contract to raise their average salary to ...

Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson ripped border czar Tom Homan after the Trump official threatened to prosecute him if he impeded ICE's efforts to deport illegal immigrants.

A Chicago alderman has changed his proposal to impose an earlier teen curfew in the downtown area. Alderman Brian Hopkins’ ...

Just two years into Brandon Johnson’s first term as mayor of Chicago, challengers are already quietly testing the waters ...

A transportation nightmare is looming over Chicago, where a $730 million hole in the regional mass transit budget could force ...

Some officers were directed to inform the Department of Homeland Security about arrests involving suspected associates of the ...