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.

Mayor Johnson's new order won't cancel existing deals, but forces firms like AECOM to disclose ICE ties and abuse allegations.

Court filings from Henderson’s 2011 divorce allege corporal punishment against his sons. He says no charges or findings ever resulted.

A suburban pediatrician says 40% of his sick-visit claims got downcoded. A Chicago woman now pays nearly $200 a session to keep her psychiatrist.

Boykin says Pappas's insults about his late Englewood mother crossed a line; Pappas calls it grandstanding.

Dustin Anderson steered Joliet's controversial 800-acre data center deal — now he's gone, and City Hall won't say why.

Chanay Walton says her Maplewood Avenue gatherings are just family parties. The city says otherwise, and wants a judge to make her stop.

Daniel La Spata missed the socialist group’s endorsement by two votes, while a 26-year-old software engineer gets the nod to unseat Ald. Bennett Lawson.