This story was originally published by Grist with the headline A Chicago law could shift where heavy industry operates — and ...

Members of the Chicago Teachers Union voted to ratify a new contract with Chicago Public Schools last week, the first time in ...

A third-party study commissioned by Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration ... searches and seizures while (the union) and ...

HE’S BACK: Former President Joe Biden gave his first major public speech since leaving the White House at the Sofitel Hotel ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said he won't negotiate with the Trump administration as it threatens to pull federal funding from cities that don't follow its immigration crackdown ...

A review by Illinois Answers Project of publicly available payroll data for 259 ward and committee staffers found that 65 ...

Mayor Eric Adams said the city would sue ... The Department of Justice also sued Chicago and the state of Illinois over their sanctuary laws in February and, in March, opened a criminal ...

According to Baltimore Mayor ... as Chicago sued the firearms titan on similar grounds last year. Democratic attorneys general in New Jersey and Minnesota also filed a joint suit in December.

Massachusetts joined Vermont and a growing group of Democrat-led states in supporting school DEI programs, while officials in ...

It amounts to some of the most forceful opposition yet as the Education Department uses federal funding as leverage to enact Trump’s agenda on issues from DEI to transgender athletes.

Chicago’s mayor promised to sue over any cuts ... “Every state that wants to continue receiving federal funds should follow ...