Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2024 trip to Springfield was a fiasco as he lobbied for a taxpayer-funded Chicago Bears stadium on Chicago ...

On Sept. 22, the heart of downtown Chicago pulsed with the powerful call to end Haitian hate. Proudly draped in blue and red, Haitian-American organizations gathered outside the Kluczynski Federal ...

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The fiscal hits just keep coming for Chicago, this time courtesy of the city’s representatives and senators in Springfield. The latest fiasco played out in the final hours of the General Assembly’s ...

CTA, Metra, and Pace officials are preparing "doomsday budgets" after Illinois state lawmakers didn't address the Chicago area mass transit system's massive budget shortfall during the spring ...