Aldermen Seek To Require Banks Holding City's Accounts To Disclose More Information On Lending Practices
Aldermen said the new disclosure requirements are aimed at helping address racial disparities in home lending practices in Chicago.
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Aldermen said the new disclosure requirements are aimed at helping address racial disparities in home lending practices in Chicago.
Jose Montanez and Armando Serrano spent 23 years in prison for the murder of Rodrigo Vargas, but were later cleared when an informant who implicated them said his testimony was coerced by former Det. Reynaldo Guevara.
The heat turned up another notch Thursday on the hot seat for Northwest Side Ald. James Gardiner (45th).
Presta, 70, was indicted last year on bribery, misconduct, and fraud charges, accusing him of accepting a $5,000 cash bribe from a red light camera company operating cameras in the village.
Eric Lurry died in Joliet police custody in January 2020, and CBS 2 Investigator Dave Savini went on to expose accusations of a cover-up. On Wednesday, there was a major new development – as the Illinois Attorney General stepped in with his own investigation.
Stevenson ran for governor of Illinois twice, losing his 1982 run by just 5,074 votes to Republican Gov. Jim Thompson. It is the closest Illinois election for governor in modern state history.
A Logan Square resident is fighting to save a catalpa tree on her street, even though the city says workers need to replace water pipes and thus, the tree has to go.
A former Niles police commander said he blew this whistle on police misconduct and it ended up costing him his career, but the Niles police chief claims the commander caused his own demise.
The Illinois eviction moratorium will be extended until Oct. 3, Gov. JB Pritzker's office told CBS 2 Tuesday.
This first day of school for the Chicago Public Schools, school bus drivers who are upset with COVID-19 vaccination requirements have thrown a wrench into things.
The Supreme Court on Thursday lifted the Biden administration's newest federal ban on evictions, granting a bid from a group of landlords to block the pandemic-related protections for renters in most of the country facing eviction.
The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that Markham Mayor Roger Agpawa may remain in office despite a 1999 federal mail fraud conviction – reversing a lower court ruling.
U.S. senators and representatives from Illinois issued messages of heartbreak and mourning Thursday, after 12 service members were killed and 15 injured in a "complex attack" outside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot had said it would be "virtually impossible" for Austin or any other indicted alderman to do their job "when they have the sword of Damocles hanging over their head."
The governor's school mask mandate covers students, teachers, and staff in preschool through 12th grade throughout the state, including both public and private schools.
