I know very well what the picture was to Englishmen and women 50-odd years ago when Chicago had its last Republican mayor. His name was William Hale Thompson, known as 'Big Bill, the Builder ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson, who campaigned for Kamala Harris this past weekend in North Carolina, is reflecting on the election, ...

J.B. Pritzker has joined Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson in blaming Republicans for violent crime in the city. A Chicago Republican says ... study published last year that found that individuals ...

I’ve never taken a Republican ballot.” Roderick Sawyer currently serves as the alderman for Chicago’s Sixth Ward, which spans from South Loop to Fuller Park. He was first elected to the city council ...

From a prosecutor's standpoint, he thinks getting rid of the gunshot detection system ShotSpotter in Chicago was a mistake by ...

Control of the House has yet to be determined, as a number of critical races remain too close to call, leaving lawmakers — ...

Among the scheduled speakers for day two of the DNC in Chicago is Mesa’s Republican Mayor ... Giles, who has been Mesa mayor ...

Aldermen expressed frustration and disappointment that school board members didn't show up to discuss the mayor's shakeup of ... 5,000 migrant shelter beds in Chicago are empty.

For the first time in Chicago’s history, voters on Tuesday chose 10 people to be on the city’s partially elected, 21-member ...

The last Republican mayor of Las Vegas was Oran Gragson, who served from 1959 until 1975. You can forget about substantive lectures or rigorous debates. Enrique Martinez would’ve celebrated his ...

City Council narrowly passed a resolution last year calling for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza, after Mayor Johnson cast a ...

By Julie Bosman Mayor Shawn Reilly of Waukesha, Wis., an independent who was a Republican for most of ... Julie Bosman is the Chicago bureau chief for The Times, writing and reporting stories ...