A new study reveals that a low-income person’s ability to move up in society is worse in Illinois than in any other ...

Wrigleyville is a dynamic neighborhood. It's home to the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field, the second oldest Major League Baseball Park in the U.S., behind Fenway Park in Boston). It's also where you ...

If this and a complementary bill from last year pass, single-family zoning will effectively disappear in municipalities across Illinois.

With budget negotiations around the corner, advocates from across Illinois have written a letter asking Gov. JB Pritzker to include an additional $100 million to the budget for homeless shelter ...

Families — most of them not immigrants — pulled some 450 children from day care and preschool, about 70% of those enrolled in Minnesota alone, where most of the organization’s centers are, Denzer said ...

There’s been some progress, but Chicago has yet to adopt any of the most meaningful housing reforms. That should change.

While changes to the city’s zoning code under Envision Evanston 2045 are shelved until at least late summer, the state legislature will consider adopting ...

Esther Patt asks the candidates for mayor and contested council races in wards 2 and 6: Two-thirds of non-university housing ...

Nestled in the heart of Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood, the Village Discount Outlet is a thrifter’s paradise ...

Former Rockford Public Schools teacher Bill Rose must defeat special education teacher Dawn Granath to win a third term on ...

The mayor is laying out his priorities for the year. But what's not on the list are solutions to the big fiscal cliffs for ...