Jessica Gutierrez, Ruth Cruz face off in runoff in Northwest Side's 30th Ward
We will know for sure on Wednesday how many wards will be involved in aldermanic races, but it is expected to be more than a dozen.
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We will know for sure on Wednesday how many wards will be involved in aldermanic races, but it is expected to be more than a dozen.
CBS 2 Investigator Megan Hickey sat down with Kersten, who said transparency is the agency's number one goal.
The end to cash bail in Illinois was supposed to go into effect on Jan. 1, but the state's highest court has put that provision of a state law on hold for now.
The executive order seeks to ensure U.S. law enforcement agencies are getting the most out of a bipartisan gun control law enacted last summer.
Over the next three weeks, CBS 2 Political Investigator Dana Kozlov will be examining where both candidates for mayor stand on the big issues.
While the results from the Feb. 28 election are not 100 percent complete, we now know what Chicago decided.
The U.S. government took extraordinary steps Sunday to stop a potential banking crisis after the historic failure of Silicon Valley Bank, assuring depositors at the failed financial institution that they would be able to access all of their money.
The senator said the federal funding will go toward trauma-informed care and additional mental health personnel in public schools through the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act passed by Congress last year.
The bill requires the declassification of information about possible links between the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The city is seeking a total of $2.2 billion from the feds, but it's unclear when any further federal funding might come through.
The candidates also went negative on each other several times, with Johnson in particular accusing Vallas of supporting the political right wing.
CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot asked political expert Stephen Maynard Caliendo to weigh in on what the endorsements mean for both candidates.
Prosecutors say he siphoned off millions of dollars from Illinois' $9 billion settlement with tobacco companies in the 1990's, but he did no legal work on the case.
The legislation, House Bill 3768, passed the State Government Administration Committee.
Vallas and Johnson were each endorsed Monday by leaders in Chicago's Black community. There were also endorsements announced over the weekend.
