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 ...

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.

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

Fox 32’s political reporter Paris Schutz has more on how a trip to Chicago helped boost the fortunes of Habitat for Humanity.

Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez, left, sits beside Mayor Brandon Johnson during an event at Wintrust Arena in the South Loop in 2023. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share Mayor Richard Daley ...

I met a young man with a dream. His name was Earl Hardy and his dream was to make a film about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr ...

SACRAMENTO — Jimmy Carter was the right presidential candidate for his time in 1976 — a smiling, homespun, anti-Washington outsider promising truth and decency. He was a natural populist, but ...

Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter and Mayor Richard J. Daley at the Illinois State Democratic Convention in Chicago on Sept. 9, 1976. (Thomas O'Halloran / PhotoQuest/Getty Images) Later in the ...

Later in the Illinois primary, Carter also showed that he could schmooze with powerful machine bosses, namely Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley. In Iowa and New Hampshire, Carter had attacked political ...

Former Cook County state’s attorney candidate Clayton Harris III on Thursday will take over as chief of staff to House ...