City leaders back a five-pillar energy vision as staff dig into a new joint agency or buying power straight off the wholesale market.

Roughly 9,300 to 10,000 lawfully present immigrants in Illinois lose Medicaid coverage this week, with Cook County hit hardest.

Sendhil Revuluri says he won't back any of the three remaining candidates until he sees proof they can govern well.

Union members authorized a walkout with 96% approval. A strike could hit all seven City Colleges campuses within weeks.

The steakhouse chain would get half its city sales tax back for a decade to help pay for sewer and sidewalk work.

Darren Bailey renewed his repeal pledge in Norridge, calling Chicago a hellhole even as homicides and shootings dropped sharply.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth says fewer than 3% of police killings ever lead to charges. Her bill would tie federal funds to independent probes.

New rules target coercive campaign emails and fake city seals — but a push to limit donations from city contractors' executives didn't make the cut.

No quorum, no vote: three empty trustee seats left Hazel Crest residents asking what's really going on at village hall.

Chicago finally gets a cut of its parking meter profits — but only after two decades of pain from the 2008 deal.

City Council rejected growing the district's footprint, but a long-stalled Western Avenue bridge fix can finally move forward.

Peirce parents say a group tied to a $10 million megadonor worked their back-to-school fair — now CPS ethics officials are digging in.

A federal jury sided with a former Lynwood village worker who says he was fired for flagging his mayor's misuse of a police database.