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.

Mayor Brandon Johnson recently issued the first veto by a Chicago mayor in 19 years. But mayoral vetoes once were common. A look at the history of the mayor’s veto power to the 1850s reveals ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson at a recent Chicago City Council meeting. The veto hasn’t always been such a novelty.

Gastonia’s mayor and a city council member urged the nixing of the city’s contract with its homelessness agency at a tense emergency meeting Thursday afternoon. Mayor Richard Franks called the ...

South Korea’s president ordered officials to find ways to prevent abuses of migrant workers after a video showing a Sri Lankan worker being moved by a forklift ...

Three grieving families' lawsuits against the city of South Haven may finally bring lifeguards back to the deadliest lake in ...

What do a sausage maker and an insurance giant have in common? A growing concern about the divisions fracturing American ...

Outrage as 1,500 sign petition to block north-west London council’s plan to twin with Palestinian city - Brent Council has faced a backlash after approving plans to twin the borough with the ...

Three Republicans on the panel voted with Democrats for the subpoena, sending it through on an 8-2 vote tally.

The Chicago Department of Buildings issued a permit Thursday for the demolition of the iconic Damen Silos, a relic of the Lower West Side’s once-prominent grain processing industry.

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