Today we examine racial representation on the Chicago City Council. After decades of so-called "plantation wards" occupied by non-white residents but led by white alders, today's Chicago City ...

Homes like D’Agostino’s, typically called coach houses, carriage houses or “granny flats,” are illegal to build in most of ...

Ald. Bennett Lawson says Mayor Brandon Johnson doesn't have the votes for his all-or-nothing-approach to give single-family homeowners carte blanche to turn attics and basements into so-called "granny ...

But the 64-year-old says she can be out of the house for hours when catching the bus - with the same car journey taking just ...

The mayor has accomplished almost half of an initiative to speed up the approval process at City Hall, but difficult tasks ...

Sanchez/Chicago Tribune) A September 2024 agreement with the city states the ... rally so many supporters to council meetings, and called on residents in the other wards to come show their support ...

Costs to house the poor are approaching, and sometimes exceeding, $1 million per unit in cities across the country, including ...

Taylor has served in Chicago City Council since 2019 ... By running ballot referendum campaigns in three wards that fall, they demonstrated strong support for reopening closed mental health ...

By all accounts, the Danville community has lost a rare man in Bob Iverson. Alderman for Ward 7, Iverson died at the age of 74 Thursday, May 22, at OSF Medical Center in Peoria after months of illness ...

Activists say they are not surprised the Trump administration pulled out of a consent decree covering Minneapolis police, but are frustrated the city didn't finalize it sooner.

Chicago’s Department of Planning and Development is eying improvements to the South Branch of the Chicago River as far west ...