We agree that incorporating granny flats — coachhouses or converted basements, for example — could play a small but ...

The City Council Zoning Committee advanced a proposal to legalize so-called "granny flats" citywide, allowing Chicago ...

The "granny flats" ordinance also prohibits short-term rentals. Because the measure applies to all wards, other City Council ...

Mayor Sam Cummingham said the proposed project could have a similar impact on the city’s downtown as the Genesee Theatre.

The City Council did not vote on a proposal to make it easier to create more accessory dwelling units across the city.

The Chicago City Council will allow residential developments near public transit to build without imposing parking space ...

Supporters of the legislation planned to further amend the ordinance to provide more restrictions to building coach houses in single-family neighborhoods.

Burnett, 61, is the dean of the City Council, having represented the 27th Ward on the West Side since 1995. He's also the ...

CPD has said police did not assist ICE at all during an operation when federal agents arrested 10 people at a South Loop immigration facility.

A new push to legalize coach houses citywide is reviving a long-running zoning fight in Chicago as the proposal returns to the City Council’s agenda next week.

New York, as well as a few other states, has introduced legislation that would ban federal agents from wearing masks or dressing in plain clothes while enforcing immigration law.

The remodel of the Spanish Baroque Revival-style building into a 61-unit affordable housing complex secured its final funding ...