From his first election in 1955 until his death in 1976, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley (Richard I) had a City Council to live for. With virtually no opposition except independent 5th Ward Ald.

Government officials and other stakeholders argued in our section about how we got here and what should be done for Chicago ...

At the center is Mayor Brandon Johnson, a former history teacher and organizer for the Chicago Teachers Union, whose plan to ...

Mayor Johnson sacks the school’s chief for his teachers union funders.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was denied a $300 million property tax hike, then a $150 million property tax hike, then a ...

The last time Chicago passed a spending plan in the year’s final month was in 2009, when Mayor Richard M. Daley held the vote ...

Harden served as deputy chief executive officer for the Chicago Public Schools. He was recruited to the position by then-CPS ...

Decades after a former Chicago mayor pledged to extend transit to the city’s far South Side, the federal government is ...

Instead, the city will "amortize" that debt, costing an additional $2 million in the long-run, according to Crain's Chicago ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Seeking to get a budget deal done on Monday, Mayor Brandon Johnson has dropped plans to seek a $68.5 million ...

I know I’m excited.” A 55-year-old promise Former Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley told residents of Roseland and surrounding areas in 1969 that the L would eventually expand there. Tammy Chase ...