Growing MKE needs Common Council approval. Its suggested zoning changes would encourage greater density for "neighborhood ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson late last month proposed a $300 million property tax hike in an effort to close a nearly $1B budget gap ...

As early returns in Tuesday’s first school board election signaled an underwhelming performance by the Chicago Teachers Union ...

That included contacting 65 current and former council members and trying repeatedly to get Johnson on board. “Only one of ...

All six board members the mayor selected last month are eligible to remain on the 21-seat board that will take office in ...

Desperate to avoid hitting Chicago home and business owners with a $300 million property tax increase, aldermen pelted the ...

Mayor wants to increase the wholesale transaction prices per gallon of beer by 34%, and by about 35% for other spirits.

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The Editorial Board met with the mayor for the first time since his election and appreciated the opportunity. Here are our ...

No wonder Chicago’s one Jewish alderman, Debra Silverstein, 50th, called upon Mitchell Johnson to resign, saying that these ...

Johnson campaigned on a promise not to raise property taxes, but said he was left with no choice given the city's massive ...

For the first time in Chicago’s history, voters on Tuesday chose 10 people to be on the city’s partially elected, 21-member ...