Rauner, Pritzker Trade Jabs Over Leadership, Taxes At Debate
Republican Governor Bruce Rauner and Democratic challenger J.B. Pritzker both tried to deflect attention from questions about their integrity.
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Republican Governor Bruce Rauner and Democratic challenger J.B. Pritzker both tried to deflect attention from questions about their integrity.
The Chicago Police Board has cleared a white police officer in the controversial shooting death of an unarmed black teenager six years ago.
A story we brought you last week about cars and trucks parked in no stopping zones touched a nerve with the president of a local messenger service.
"This hat, it gives me power in a way," West said. "It was something about when I put this hat on. It made me feel like Superman. You made a Superman."
The Obama Foundation is launching an initiative aimed at boosting educational opportunities for girls around the world.
Metra says it won't increase fares next year. But the suburban Chicago commuter rail agency is warning it needs more money to improve its deteriorating system, or service will have to be cut.
Kanye West will meet with President Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner at the White House on Thursday.
Workers rallied near a downtown Chicago post office, with signs reading "U.S. Mail, Not For Sale" and "We Belong To The People, Not Corporate America."
"Overall gun violence is down about 20 percent in the city."
He's encouraging the city to use the controversial "stop and frisk" policing strategy.
Demonstrators held signs calling Kavanaugh a bad nominee because of sexual assault allegations against him and saying the selection process seemed to be biased against women.
"They have not held the police accountable and hundreds of millions of dollars have been paid out in police lawsuits and police misconduct."
The final vote was 50-48 and interrupted several times by protesters as senators sat silent at their desks for the formal roll call vote.
He is accused of using campaign money and his congressional allotment for personal expenses and extravagant redecorating of his Capitol Hill office in the style of the TV series "Downton Abbey."
Judge Brett Kavanaugh will get a final floor vote, after enough senators voted 51-49 to advance his nomination Friday.
