The Chicago City Council, long derided as a mayoral puppet, is increasingly operating independent of the wishes of the ...

Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling promised to use the power to expand the city's curfew only preemptively, to prevent large teen gatherings from taking place. That goal is shared by Mayor Brandon ...

Disappointed with the response to their concern that Mayor Brandon Johnson was seeking to oust them from his City Council leadership team, three leaders of the Progressive Caucus are amplifying ...

Andre Vasquez is the new chairperson of the City Council’s Latino Caucus ... raise property taxes, fire Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez and install progressive firebrand Byron Sigcho ...

An alleged City Council leadership shake-up that ... as well as the priorities of the Chicago Progressive Reform Caucus, for which the three of us serve as leaders (Hadden and Vasquez as Co ...

CHICAGO (CN ... the members of the city council who contributed their hard work, ideas and passion to this process," the mayor told reporters. Alderpeople Andre Vasquez and Maria Hadden, co-chairs of ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $17.1 billion budget for next year has passed the city council by a ... s and co-chair of the council’s progressive caucus. She voted “yes” on the budget ...

Amid pushback on his budget plans from City Council and turmoil after the ousting of a top advisor, Mayor Brandon Johnson did not hold back on Tuesday in pitching his vision for next year to ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The Chicago City Council ... Hadden said the majority of the City Council Progressive Caucus, which she co-chairs, would vote in favor of the budget. But she said Mayor Johnson's ...

Chicago’s progressive movement has gotten stronger within government — from Mayor Johnson to a lot of the City Council ... and the creation of the Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators ...

CHICAGO (CN) — The Chicago City Council voted 26-23 Wednesday to approve Mayor Brandon Johnson's $830 million bond proposal. The borrowing plan targets financing for infrastructure projects across the ...