The $22 million settlement, if approved, would continue the trend of big spending on lawsuits in recent years.

Chicago’s city council is considering a new assessment on hotel stays that supporters say would raise about $40 million. The ...

Chicago faces a projected $1.17 billion budget gap for 2027. There is work to be done now, before politics make the challenge ...

The silver lining in the budget wars of the Johnson term is the emergence of legitimate political talent on the City Council.

Aldermen offered resounding support for a new Tourism Improvement District, a self-tax on downtown hotel stays that would ...

It has been months since the Chicago City Council approved a plan to update the way a roughly two-mile stretch of Broadway in ...

Chicago's public safety committee is expected to take up a revised ordinance to give police the authority to impose specific ...

On Wednesday, the Chicago City Council’s Public Safety Committee passed by a 10-4 vote the revised proposal that would expand ...

The Chicago City Council’s Public Safety Committee has passed a revised teen curfew ordinance as a way to control large teen ...

The city of Chicago spent $250.8 million on overtime for members of the Chicago Police Department during 2025 — 151% more ...