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Pritzker, facing a costly reelection campaign, plans to tackle another foe — inflation approaching 7% — in a state budget proposal that would lift or freeze taxes on groceries and gasoline and give homeowners a one-year rebate of up to $300.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot has now been added to a lawsuit over the removal of a Christopher Columbus statue in the Little Italy neighborhood.
He heads the department mandated to care for the state's most vulnerable children, and on Friday, Illinois Department of Children and Family Services Director Marc Smith was on the legislative hot seat.
Deciding which suspects stay locked up as they await trial and which do not is a growing controversy in Chicago – with alarming crime rates and repeat offenders fueling the debate.
People trying to stop drownings in Lake Michigan scored a partial victory in Springfield on Wednesday.
A news conference on charges in the shooting death of 8-year-old Melissa Ortega was also a rare appearance in the same room for Mayor Lightfoot, police Supt. David Brown, and Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx.
Chicago aldermen for years have talked about the need to hire their own attorney to advise the City Council, rather than relying on the mayor's hand-picked Corporation Counsel for legal advice, but a bid to end the logjam hit another roadblock on Wednesday.
"I wanted to thank all of my colleagues for their love and tender care," Austin said at Wednesday's council meeting.
Justice Stephen Breyer, the senior member of the Supreme Court's liberal wing, plans to retire after nearly 28 years on the bench, giving President Biden the opportunity to make his first appointment to the nation's highest court, one that is poised to be historic.
Student mask exemptions at St. John's Lutheran School in Lombard began this week and have pushed about a sixth of the school's staff members out the door in protest.
Thousands of abandoned and vacant properties are costing Cook County taxpayers over $1 billion in lost property tax revenue.
The chair of the Public Safety Committee called off a vote on Andrea Kersten's nomination to be the permanent leader of COPA, after several aldermen voiced strong opposition.
"This is not an effort to try to take grandma's house, as a lot of people I think expressed concerns about," Lightfoot said on Thursday.
Verizon said its technology, which is intended to increase speed, reliability and power for more than 90 million Americans, will launch Wednesday as planned, but with the temporary limit around airports.
Monday marks the 36th annual national celebration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and many may not know there are Chicagoans who helped make the holiday happen.
