Chicago’s proposed transit overhaul leaves key problems intact, critics warn—jeopardizing integration, equity and oversight of multibillion-dollar projects.

Thanks to pushback from “Bungalow Belt” aldermen, a yearslong push to allow coach houses and basement apartments in Chicago will need to wait.

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Mayor Brandon Johnson’s finance team is briefing members of the City Council on potential new or expanded revenue streams.

San Francisco and Chicago offer a split-screen in 2025: one mayor riding optimism, the other facing record-low approval.

The CPD committed to releasing “merit” promotion lists in 2017. Now, the city claims doing so would be an invasion of privacy ...

As Lollapalooza gears up for another high-energy weekend in Grant Park, one longtime festival observer has seen it all.

Ald. Walter Burnett’s resignation from the City Council will be official on Thursday, according to a letter he sent to Mayor ...

Johnson should have been “more proactive in meeting the moment we knew was coming” when $1.9 billion in federal pandemic ...

Chicago’s mental health crisis teams were meant to replace police with clinicians. Bureaucratic dysfunction and fading ...

Despite Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates’ constant demands for “wealthy” taxpayers to pay their “fair share ...

New York City’s Democratic mayoral nominee has idealism and charisma. If he wins, he’ll need someone with a deep understanding of how a city works to translate passion into governance. There’s an ...