It only cost $2 to take the Chicago Skyway toll road from Northwest Indiana into the city in 2004. Now it costs nearly four times as much to take the shortcut between Northwest Indiana and Chicago.

Former President Jimmy Carter’s ties to the Chicago area ran deep. He visited multiple times during his campaigning years, usually staying in the homes of local politicians or supporters from Chicago ...

Jimmy Carter was the perfect candidate for 1976, columnist George Skelton writes, and he was an exceptional ex-president. In ...

Carter visited Chicago numerous times during his campaign for president in 1976, as president between 1977 and 1981, and ...

Jimmy Carter’s 1976 presidential bid got a big boost from Mayor Richard J. Daley. But when he ran for a second term in 1980, ...

The nation's 39th president, who died Sunday at 100, was in Chicago many times over the years, as he rose from relative ...

At least two new people will join the City Council after April's election, and either Kerry Mundy or Parielle Davis will be ...

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

No name appeared more frequently in Tribune editorials in 2024 than that of Mayor Brandon Johnson. So much so, in fact, that ...

The Biden administration notified Congress last week that it would commit $1.9 billion toward a nearly $5.7 billion project ...