Newly unionized PAs on Chicago Fire and Chicago Med say NBCUniversal slashed their hours right after they organized.

No more mailing forms to Springfield: caregivers driving disabled loved ones can now get meter-exempt placards at local DMV counters.

Pritzker gave oil CEOs until August 21 to answer for a $2 billion hit on Illinois drivers since February.

A city working group says Chicago's roughly 39 data centers should lose their exemption from public energy and water disclosure rules.

Cook County prosecutors say abusers filmed survivors leaving protective-order hearings to scare them off testifying.

At Uptown's Bezazian branch, workers stacked backlogged returns in a community room while waiting weeks for delivery trucks.

Park Ridge approved a public mural program in a split vote, but new rules draw a hard line between civic art and advertising.

Chicago’s budget director is out after just days of upheaval on the city’s finance team, leaving Mayor Brandon Johnson to defend City Hall’s stability.

Evanston is choosing regulation over a sweepstakes-machine ban, with strict limits and a final vote ahead.

Ald. Byron Sigcho-López is suing after Illinois officials removed him from the 4th District ballot over challenged petition signatures. The case takes aim at the state’s independent-candidate rules.

Francesca Hong’s South Milwaukee rally paired a polling frontrunner with Ilhan Omar and Hasan Piker as Wisconsin Democrats head toward a chaotic primary.

Chicago’s immigration court issued 6,012 in-absentia removal orders in June as mega hearings crowded dockets and advocates warned of missed notices.

Connie Anderson will temporarily fill a Far South Side school board seat she is already seeking in November.