Aspira wants to sell its $27 million Avondale campus for $11 million, but a federal judge — not the charter operator — will decide who gets the money.

Zoe Ma launched her bid in Bronzeville, aiming to be Chicago's first Chinese American and first Muslim mayor.

A new survey of 475 Chicago public employees shows Johnson ahead of his 2027 rivals, yet deeply unpopular even among union rank and file.

The village board voted 4-0 to move the long-stalled monument to the park where a WWII tank already sits at Toft and Orchard.

CPS now lets unaccompanied youth enroll themselves and drops parent-signature rules for transportation consent.

Elyse Hoffenberg says the footage was a friendly peck, not a scandal — but her GOP rival wants the tape and won't drop it.

Trustees voted unanimously to advance design work on a new headquarters in the old U.S. Bank building, even as the bank battles the takeover in court.

A Centralia father and his teenage son were removed to Mexico after a Marion County prosecutor tipped off federal agents, records show.

A Rhymefest corruption remark got a fellow board member censured as Chicago Arts High School's funding fight rolled into September.

Armando Saleh, 56, claimed he was 71 on a passport to keep senior tax breaks on his Gage Park and Lawndale two-flats — and the county renewed them anyway in 2025.

Daniel Bovey won the mayor's office over his own greenhouse fine. Now his refusal to stay quiet is holding up a settlement.

The Far Northwest Side board member says she won't drag supporters into a fight against big union and self-funded spending.

Merchants pressed officials over rising costs as Aurora eyes a new downtown tax district to replace one expiring this year.