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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Sunday delivered the keynote address at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions Roundtable at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties in Scotland.
CBS 2 has learned the son of Ald. Carrie Austin (34th) was recently suspended from the city job she got for him -- and not for the first time.
The Chicago Public Schools has announced there will be no classes on Friday, Nov. 12, for Vaccine Awareness Day.
Gun owners have paid $11.1 million in taxes collectively all the times they have bought guns or ammunition in Cook County since 2013. The Illinois Supreme Court has now struck down the tax as unconstitutional.
An investigation has now been launched less than 24 hours after CBS 2's Jermont Terry exposed ghost businesses taking Paycheck Protection Program loans in south suburban Markham.
The Wild West is how some residents describe parts of the city's North and Northwest sides. They say there is a spike of people shooting guns from speeding cars at one another – and it is getting worse.
The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday advanced Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's nomination as the U.S. ambassador to Japan.
"Chicago Park District needs new leadership that is up to the task of making our parks safe and creating structures of accountability," Ald. Rossana Rodrigeuz-Sanchez said.
Arroyo faces a maximum of 20 years in prison, and a $250,000 fine.
A lot of questionable small businesses that got government PPP loans in Markham, and it's you, the taxpayer that are on the hook. CBS 2's Jermont Terry dug into what is going on.
A woman who fought back when she was preyed upon by nursing home employees paid to take care of her has died at 100.
The Chicago Park District has fired three senior managers following the release of two reports that detail sexual assaults among Park District lifeguards – and claim the former Park District superintendent took no action until six months after he had received a complaint about abuse.
An Illinois state lawmaker says repeated rolling shootouts on local roadways have turned his district in Albany Park into the Wild, Wild West.
Former Chicago Ald. Ed Vrdolyak must report to prison by the end of the month, a court ruled Monday.
"The absence of meaningful arbitration is not just an injury to members, it is also an injury to the union itself. It undermines the unions' collective bargaining power and risks diminishing the union in the eyes of its members," Mitchell wrote.
