Chicago must begin the process of true zero-based budgeting requiring that all city activities and programs be closely ...

Many Notre Dame football fans had gone to New Orleans to see the Sugar Bowl. Now they're coming home with heavy hearts after the deadly vehicle attack on Bourbon Street.

Lee says he’s not at all surprised by the extraordinary pressure that he and the mayor have been under in the shark tank ...

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

Fifteen people were killed and dozens injured when a pickup truck plowed into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.

CHICAGO - Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. said he and his wife are okay following a deadly attack on a crowd of New Year's revelers in New Orleans early Wednesday morning.

Illinois and Chicago-area leaders reacted Sunday to the death of 100-year-old former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

At the heart of Chicago’s deficit are decades of increasingly generous retirement benefits offered by Chicago’s leaders to more than 30,000 public employees, a politically powerful constituency. Today ...