Lee says he’s not at all surprised by the extraordinary pressure that both he and the mayor have been under in the shark tank ...

With 2024 in the books and 2025 already here, gulp, our city and state find themselves in precarious places. The city of ...

The risk of bankruptcy increased in Chicago as nearly half of the budget went toward pensions and debt services for public ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson called 2024 a breakthrough year for Chicago, claiming some crime rates are at their lowest in a decade.

Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling and Mayor Brandon Johnson spoke to members of the news media on Dec. 31, 2024, about the ...

Chicagoans in 2025 will start paying more in certain taxes, fines and fees as part of balanced budget OK’d by Mayor Brandon ...

We are fighting on so many fronts in this war, but we are making progress. We are saving lives. What we’re doing here is not ...

At the heart of Chicago’s deficit are decades of increasingly generous retirement benefits offered by Chicago’s leaders to more than 30,000 public employees, a politically powerful constituency. Today ...

Following the passing of former President Jimmy Carter at 100 years old on Sunday, tributes poured in from around the world, including from Illinois elected officials.

Johnson, a former CPS teacher, remains on leave from the school district. A 2023 memo written by CPS’ chief talent officer ...

No name appeared more frequently in Tribune editorials in 2024 than that of Mayor Brandon Johnson. So much so, in fact, that ...

This is the only appropriate descriptor for the obvious political ploy that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and his hand-picked ...