On Monday morning, the Council’s Finance Committee rejected the mayor’s budget by a vote of 25–10.

A chaotic federal raid left vendors at the longtime South Side flea market shaken. Now they’re demanding stronger protections ...

Co-op members, City officials, and housing organizers weigh in on whether limited-equity housing co-ops can provide affordable and sustainably priced housing Kimberly Turner and her grandmother, ...

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The departments’ policy directives both instruct police officers to keep most property at the precinct but to send essentials ...

Junta del Condado de Cook renueva contrato con empresa de datos vinculados a ICE mientras se realizan redadas en Chicago ...

At its meeting the Metra Board of Directors reviewed budgets and heard from three public commenters. The Board learned from ...

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits—food ...

Cuatro años después de haber sido advertido por primera vez de que un contrato podría exponer datos de inmigrantes al ...

Fact-checking is all the rage these days, as any victim of the Bowling Green Massacre will tell you. One could argue it has never been more important. At the Weekly, we take it seriously: ...

Governor J.B. Pritzker blasted Johnson’s head tax during an Oct. 21 event at the Economic Club of Chicago. It wasn’t the ...