Dolton Mayor Jason House took CBS News Chicago inside the house on Thursday, as he talked about bigger plans for the property ...

Brandon Johnson was sworn in as mayor of the nation's third-largest city Monday at a ceremony attended by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and U.S. Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin. Johnson, 47, a ...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot warned Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s planned rollback of coronavirus reopenings will have a devastating impact on the city’s economy just as it is beginning to ...

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker delivered their opening salvos Monday against Republican President Donald Trump and his second term in the White House, setting a defiant ...

U.S. Census Bureau data show population loss affected more than 85% of Illinois cities in 2022, with Chicago dropping by 32,990 people. Meanwhile, Chicago is facing a budget shortfall in 2024 ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson recently issued the first veto by a Chicago mayor in 19 years. But mayoral vetoes once were common. A ...

Why does Lynwood, Illinois mayor take home so much more pay than her salary? 03:33 A mayor of one of Chicago's southern suburbs is up for reelection next week, and is feeling the heat from her ...

After Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot downplayed her administration’s slow implementation of police reforms during a speech in 2020, a lawyer for the Illinois attorney general responded in court by ...

SCOOP: Chicago Ald. Walter Burnett Jr., who also serves as vice mayor, is considering a run for Congress should U.S. Rep. Danny Davis not seek reelection. Davis, who is 83, has yet to file ...

Dr. Willie Wilson. Wilson, who has owned a series of McDonald’s franchises and various companies, has a long history of running for office in Chicago, with mayoral runs in 2015 and 2019 and a ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s unpopularity has created far more interest in establishing a recall process. Johnson or no Johnson, let’s do it.