Quinn Pleased With 'Positive' Framework From Pension Committee
Gov. Pat Quinn appears happy about the progress state lawmakers have been making on pension reforms.
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Gov. Pat Quinn appears happy about the progress state lawmakers have been making on pension reforms.
You may be surprised to hear that Illinois doesn't require kids to be in school until age seven, but, as WBBM's Nancy Harty reports, that's about to change.
Gov. Pat Quinn says the outline of a pension reform proposal from a bipartisan panel is "positive indeed."
The job of Illinois lieutenant governor has often been ridiculed as a do-nothing office. But in 2014 the position will take on a new significance.
An $800 million project meant to improve rental car service at O'Hare International Airport is getting under way after the city of Chicago finalized a $288 million federal loan.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is appointing an advisory committee to decide what to do with nearly 50 shuttered Chicago Public Schools that residents fear could be turned into charter schools, or sit vacant and become magnets for crime.
Upset with school closings and budget cuts, some grassroots community groups are calling for a one-day boycott of the Chicago Public Schools.
A lawyer representing former Metra CEO Alex Clifford says his client would like to return to work at the embattled suburban Chicago transit agency.
A husband and wife are suing the city of Chicago as well as their alderman, requesting the removal of a Divvy bike station that they say will bring an "invasion" of people, trash and noise to the doorstep of their Lakeview condominium.
Some questions being raised over a benefit provided to some people using the city's popular new bike-rental program.
People who rent apartments now have more protections if the owners of their buildings face foreclosure. That's thanks to a new state law, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
Mayor Emanuel, Schools CEO Barbara Byrd Bennett and Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy addressed adult Safe Passage trainees at Chicago State University. WBBM's Bob Roberts reports that they delivered a message that sounded more like an old-fashioned political rally than a class visit.
Regional Transportation Authority board member William Coulson said former Metra chair Brad O'Halloran and director Larry Huggins sparked a clash with former CEO Alex Clifford over political hires at the agency.
The representative from Oswego is informing House Republicans of his future plans Wednesday morning in a call.
The Regional Transportation Authority is putting the finishing touches on a sharply critical audit of former Metra CEO Alex Clifford's severance agreement – and says the commuter rail agency could have gotten out of the contract for a fraction of the potential $718,000 cost.
