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A controversial resolution calling for an unconditional ceasefire in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas is once again set for a vote in Chicago's...

A controversial resolution calling for an unconditional ceasefire in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas narrowly passed Chicago City Council...

Many of Brandon Johnson’s biggest mistakes so far as mayor of Chicago can be summed up in one sentence: He seems to have decided to speak only to his base. Everyone else? Either a sworn enemy or chopped liver. This is the kind of thinking that can cleave a city. Take the mayor’s ridiculous posturing over the City Council resolution on the conflict in the Middle East. On Wednesday Johnson ...

A growing number of sitting alderpersons are either not running at all, or they’ve been forced to withdraw and perhaps run as write-in candidates after failing to gather the number of signatures needed to get on the ballot.

A controversial resolution calling for an unconditional ceasefire in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas has passed out of the Chicago City...

The settlement goes to the City Council for approval at Wednesday’s meeting. It would go to the children of Michael Craig, 61, who was shot and killed by police in 2021 after Craig called 911, saying his wife had “a knife on me, on the bed, on my throat.”

In July 2022, an annual study of traffic and pedestrian stops concluded Black motorists are 1.7 times more likely to be stopped than white drivers. Hispanic drivers in Chicago were 2.5 times more likely to be stopped.

Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Cole Stallard said Friday his crews have trimmed 53,188 trees since Jan. 1, a vast improvement over the 19,525 trees trimmed during the same period a year ago.

A Chicago City Council committee extended the life of the tax increment financing district by three years — until Dec. 31, 2027 — and granted the latest development team tackling the formidable project a $27 million city subsidy.

Surveillance video from a Bucktown liquor store shows a terrifying scene that unfolded recently when an employee was shot during an armed robbery. The shooting...