Peter Chico News Today

Chicago Transit Authority President Dorval Carter will keep his job for now, thanks to several Black aldermen.

On this Memorial Day weekend, residents of the South Chicago neighborhood are remembering members of their community lost during the Vietnam War.

Sixteen Black aldermen are not supporting a resolution to fire embattled Chicago Transit Authority President Dorval Carter, as he faces heavy criticism about

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wants to construct a 25-foot-high toxic waste dump on the Southeast Side, reneging on a deal struck 40 years ago to restore the site to parkland.

Around 50 opponents of the Invert, a massive underground development plan, disrupted a town hall after Ald. Peter Chico proposed reversing a city law to allow mining.

A Chicago mom is calling on police to help find her son who has been missing for almost two weeks. 

Inside the Garfield Park field house’s cavernous basement, Mayor Brandon Johnson and other city officials spoke bullishly about their mission to tackle Chicago’s crime. Titled the “People’s Plan for Community Safety,” the strategy outlined by the progressive mayor last Wednesday evening at a community working group event encompassed his signature mantra of “investing in people” rather than ...

CHICAGO — On Monday afternoon, Chicago’s City Council convened with just one item on the agenda: Byron Sigcho-Lopez. A group of Sigcho-Lopez’s colleagues called the meeting to stip the two-term alderman of his chairmanship of the Housing Committee. They wanted the Democratic Socialist punished because he spoke at a rally where a veteran burned a […]

The Chicago Police Department is making it their mission to get out in the community and get to know their neighbors better.

CHICAGO (WGN) — Mayor Brandon Johnson announced Tuesday that Chicago is not renewing the city’s ShotSpotter contract. The mayor said the contract with ShotSpotter’s owner, “SoundThinking,” ends on Friday — but the technology itself will work until Sept. 22. Officers will have access to SpotShotter throughout the summer and during the Democratic National Convention in…