CTU officials on Monday morning announced that 97% of its members who voted last week cast ballots in favor of the contract ...

Ald. Gilbert Villegas plans to invoke a rarely used rule at Wednesday’s Chicago City Council meeting to force representatives ...

Chicago’s own Matt Schulien took magic from the street corner to an actual bar in the twentieth century, and the tradition continues in some spots today.

Ted Aliotta was a Chicago-area musician for 60 years, performing in bands including the Maybes, the Fabtones and the Cave ...

Many ways to improve treatment are expensive and could be in peril if Medicaid funding is slashed by the Trump administration ...

Last night’s elections caused some shakeups in the suburbs. Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin, facing his first hometown election since losing his 2022 gubernatorial bid, conceded to challenger Ald. John ...

This year's festival contains a handful of Chicago-area productions, including short films from nonprofit theater company ...

At an April 5 meeting of the Seventh Police District Council, member Dion McGill called on the state’s attorney’s office to immediately suspend the program, conduct a comprehensive racial equity ...

People with mental illnesses are far likelier to be victims than to commit crimes. But a small number of unprovoked, midday ...

Turnout will matter, which is why Illinois Democrats have for weeks been traveling by bus each weekend to knock on doors. And ...

The real estate trade group’s political action committee spent $76,000 on Illinois municipal races where candidates lost.

“Our students are basically the hometown reporters for most of the lawmakers from around the state,” said Drew, a New Orleans native who spent 22 years as an investigative reporter and editor at The ...