Month: May 2026

Federal agents deployed tear gas on the Far South Side — sickening protesters and more than a dozen cops — despite a deputy Chicago police […]

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has launched a probe into the conduct of one of U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s aides, who is accused of […]

Chicago homeowners are being walloped with a record property tax hike, with some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods absorbing the steepest increases even as downtown […]

Chicago-area housing advocates are bracing for many of the 8,500 formerly unhoused people whose residences are subsidized by the federal government to lose their homes […]

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed head tax on companies with more than 200 employees appeared dead after the City Council’s Finance Committee on Monday rejected the […]

Last fall, when an anxious patron rushed into the Addison Public Library asking how to file a court document, Sara Lock felt prepared. She’d grown […]

As city leaders scramble to close a $1.2 billion budget gap, Mayor Brandon Johnson wants to preserve multiple city programs that were created by or […]

The mother of Chicago police Officer Krystal Rivera filed a wrongful death lawsuit Wednesday in which she says her daughter’s partner Officer Carlos Baker was […]

Her voice trembling, the mother of Chicago police Officer Krystal Rivera asked a question Thursday as she announced a wrongful death lawsuit against the Chicago […]

MARION, Ill.  — One of three developers entrusted by state and city of Marion officials to oversee a multimillion redevelopment project — a key to […]