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Paul Vallas is an adviser for the Illinois Policy Institute. He ran against Brandon Johnson for Chicago mayor in 2023 and was ...

Sixty-nine City of Harvey employees have been furloughed due to what officials describe as a "severe financial emergency." ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson spoke with CBS News Chicago Monday morning to defend his 2026 budget proposal, which aims to close a ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $16.6 billion 2026 budget proposal won early praise from progressives and disdain from ...

Trimming city spending faces at least as many logistical and political hurdles as any push to hike taxes, the Illinois ...

The largest payout before the City Council’s Finance Committee, $8 million, would go to the family of a man who stopped ...

Explore the Chicago police budget and learn how the department consistently overspends its budget from 2022 to 2024.

FIRST ON FOX: The University of Chicago exclusively told Fox News Digital that it condemns violence after a professor at the school was charged with violent felonies during an anti-ICE riot in the ...

President Donald Trump called for the arrest of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, escalating political tensions as he attempts to send federal troops to Chicago amid ...

Chicago has been named the Best Big City in the U.S. for the ninth straight year by Condé Nast Traveler readers. The city was also recognized as one of the friendliest in the world by the magazine’s U ...