Congresswoman Kelly: 'Trump Has Emboldened Racists'
Congresswoman Robin Kelly says President Trump needs to look in a mirror when searching for reasons behind the Virginia violence.
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Congresswoman Robin Kelly says President Trump needs to look in a mirror when searching for reasons behind the Virginia violence.
Mayor Emanuel took President Trump to task for not singling out neo-Nazis in his initial remarks.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says student loan debt is now the largest unsecured consumer debt in the nation.
The Chicago Democrat is part of the 43-member House Problem Solvers Caucus.
The governor said he'd accept a compromise that restores some of the $250 million in state funding he vetoed for Chicago Public Schools.
Cook County advocates are pushing for an ongoing fund to help low-income people who might lose their homes because of unpaid property tax bills.
Ending weeks of speculation, Mayor Emanuel said he would reappoint an occasional critic, Lori Lightfoot, as head of the Chicago Police Board
Students may eventually miss classes if the battle over a new school funding formula isn't resolved, one top official tells WBBM's Craig Dellimore.
The mayor said the governor's veto will hurt minority and poor students in less-affluent school districts more than it will hurt CPS.
Cook County officials are calling for statewide bail reform, in line with a report authored by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
The majority of people on the waiting list for organs are minorities, yet they are much less likely to donate their organs. CBS 2's Mai Martinez reports.
Johnson said his officers are not going to be distracted by President Trump encouraging police to be tough with suspects.
The city's online universal preschool application process has been given an upgrade to help parents looking for programs for their kids.
Democratic candidate for Governor JB Pritzker is outlining a plan he says that would be the strongest resistance to harmful policies of Republican President Donald Trump
Riverside Police Chief, Tom Weitzel, said some of the policies State's Attorney Kim Foxx is putting in place is helping to dismantle the criminal justice system, not reform it.
The head of the Group "Friends of the Parks" is complaining that plans for the Obama Presidential Library and Museum in Jackson Park seem to be moving too quickly for true community input.
Civil Rights Leader Reverend Jesse Jackson says that while President Trump has a panel looking into alleged "voter fraud" his group is taking a closer look at Republican efforts to make voting harder in minority communities.
"They made those choices," Emanuel says. "Now, they want to change the consequences of the choices they made."
The Chicago City Council gave final approval on Wednesday to a $39-million settlement over the city's red light camera program.
Members of the public for the first time lined up to speak at the beginning of a full Chicago City Council meeting on Wednesday.
A proposed ordinance would require sellers or dealers of used phones to check a database of stolen phones before they could make a sale.
The rezoning would make it easier for new apartments, condos, and office buildings to be built along the North Branch of the Chicago River.
The aldermen demand aviation department stop stripping its police force of power and title before the City Council can hold hearings.
DCFS officials will testify at a joint House and Senate committee hearing about what could have been done to prevent Semaj Crosby's death.
The City Council's Finance Committee has given its approval for a nearly $39-million settlement of a lawsuit over the city's red light and speed camera programs.
