CHICAGO — Summer has officially come to an end and City Council was back in session Thursday afternoon and evening, ...

Thursday's Chicago City Council meeting brought a new alderman with a familiar name, a failed plan to reshuffle council ...

The Chicago City Council has approved a $90 million settlement for nearly 200 civil rights violations involving a former ...

The Chicago City Council voted to approve several plans on Thursday, including an Obama Center deal, plans to build a new ...

With no discussion, Chicago City Council passed a far-reaching anti-gentrification ordinance for Chicago’s South Shore and ...

City Council members on Thursday approved the $650 million, 22,000-seat soccer stadium that Fire owner Joe Mansueto envisions ...

I grew up roaming the halls of this building, learning a lot about what it means to be a public servant, and what it really ...

Chicago taxpayers will foot the $90 million bill to settle hundreds of wrongful conviction lawsuits tied to disgraced former Chicago Police Sgt. Ronald Watts. The settlement was just one of many ...

Granny flats, the Obama Center, and a new stadium for the Chicago fire are the big ticket items Chicago lawmakers are weighing at Thursday's city council meeting.

Mayor Brandon Johnson had hoped to reshuffle the City Council members who hold the reins of the body’s powerful committees.

A proposal to name Ald. Daniel La Spata, 1st, as Zoning chair and Ald. Emma Mitts, 37th, vice-mayor "crashed and burned" ...

A $6 million Jackson Park housing pilot to be voted on Thursday by the City Council would offer Obama campus neighbors property tax relief and begin the transformation of vacant city lots into ...