Welcome to the first day of the year. Here’s a look back at what happened on January 1, according to the Tribune’s archives.

Chicagoans in 2025 will start paying more in certain taxes, fines and fees as part of balanced budget OK’d by Mayor Brandon ...

Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson is one of them. On the morning after the election, after he had campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris in North Carolina, Johnson released an official statement ...

Residents of Chicago are blasting Mayor Brandon Johnson over the city spending more than half a billion dollars on sheltering migrants, with one telling the Democrat to his face during a City Council ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A bullet was found lodged in the garage at former Mayor Lori Lightfoot's house in the Logan Square neighborhood Thursday evening. Joanna Klonsky, a spokeswoman for the former mayor, ...

Several City Council members have called the school board's vote to fire Martinez without cause reckless and irresponsible.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson booted members of the public from a city meeting on his proposed 2025 budget on Monday after residents vocally protested against extensive funding for migrants.

"[Johnson] should be convicted of treason. We are dealing with a mayor who is a democratic socialist, and he's bringing an agenda to Chicago that's just not going to work. And it is an agenda of ...

On the weekend before Christmas, when you might expect a Chicago mayor to be riding a snowplow or be out shopping or eating in the Loop, kids and cameras in tow, all hearty good cheer and exhortations ...

but people have sold the people of Chicago out for too long, and they have kowtowed to the interests of the ultrarich.” The mayor has time and again asserted the ball is in Springfield’s court ...

Residents of Chicago are blasting Mayor Brandon Johnson over the city spending more than half a billion dollars on sheltering migrants, with one telling the Democrat to his face during a City ...