Growing occasionally emotional, former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday testified during a bench trial that she was disturbed and traumatized by a profane and racist death threat sent in to ...

Cameras mounted on six CTA buses will begin issuing warnings and tickets in July or August, the transit agency said.

CPS school board set to debate a proposed budget amendment covering teacher and principal contracts, pension costs.

Ald. Brian Hopkins said he plans to revive his ordinance for an earlier curfew after a tourist was shot last weekend near the ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration keeps pushing Chicago Public Schools to maintain payments to a pension fund for ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing backlash after speaking out against allowing transgender athletes to compete in female ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson joined mayors from Boston, Denver, and New York to testify before Congress on Wednesday about the city’s sanctuary policies, sparking reactions from local officials.

Johnson faced numerous GOP attacks — including digs at his low approval rating — during Wednesday's hearing as both ...

Mayor Johnson traveled to Washington this week to take questions in a Republican-led House Oversight and Government Reform Committee investigation of sanctuary cities. Johnson was ...

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Illinois), the only Illinois congressman on the panel, said the hearing could turn into "an ...

The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is expected to question four U.S. mayors about their cities’ immigration policies Wednesday.

Spielman has been reporting and breaking news for the Sun-Times since the Harold Washington administration, and she’s not ...