Soldier Field Hosts Annual Veterans Day Ceremony
In addition to the many active and veteran service members in attendance, people of all ages from as far away as California came out to celebrate those who serve in the military.
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In addition to the many active and veteran service members in attendance, people of all ages from as far away as California came out to celebrate those who serve in the military.
The man in charge of shaping the Barack Obama Presidential Library and Museum said Tuesday that initial planning might take longer than many expected.
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle has said she has enough votes to approve a new countywide tax on ammunition for handguns and rifles.
Governor Bruce Rauner has backed down on restrictions imposed this summer for state child care assistance.
The hospitality industry and some commissioners are predicting a calamity, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
A survey of Chicago Public School Principals says most of them are leaving the school system early and not necessarily in search of better pay, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is joining the Federal Trade Commission and other local law enforcement agencies in a crackdown on illegally aggressive debt collection services, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
Some Cook County commissioners are raising their voices against plans to impose a county amusement tax on top of Chicago's existing tax, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
Some Cook County commissioners want to amend the county budget to boost funding for programs to keep young people off the streets and out of prison, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
Drastic cuts leading to teacher layoffs and dramatically higher class sizes could hit Chicago classrooms in the first week of February.
The political feud between Chicago's mayor and the state's governor blew up even further on Friday in theatrical fashion.
Rahm Emanuel and Bruce Rauner were friends at one point. Maybe not anymore, amid the continuing state budget stalemate.
A Chicago-based transportation logistics company has announced plans to double its workforce in the city, after recently acquiring a Skokie-based operation. Echo Global Logistics CEO Douglas Waggoner said his transportation and technology company is absorbing a firm it acquired.
The City Council has approved the largest property tax hike in modern Chicago history, with the vast majority of the new revenue going to shore up police and fire pension funds.
It's been barely a month since the City Council opened the door for food carts to operate legally in Chicago, and already aldermen have begun carving out some parts of the city where they won't be welcome.
A freshman alderman has joined community groups in predicting Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposed property tax increase would create a crisis in affordable rental housing.
In a compromise worked out today, drivers for ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft will be allowed to serve Chicago's airports and the city might be able to hire a few more police officers, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
A news conference turned into a shouting match ahead of the City Council hearing on allowing ride-sharing services to pick up passengers at O'Hare and Midway airports, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
Illinois State Comptroller urged Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democratic leaders in the General Assembly to resolve their difference over the still-stalled state budget, as she tried to call attention to domestic violence programs that have been suffering without state funding.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel tried to shrug off the delay in the vote on the $400 million privately-funded Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, but sources told the Sun-Times negotiations with the Chicago Bears have stalled final approval.
Even as the Chicago City Council advanced Mayor Emanuel's budget towards next week's final vote, several aldermen are trying to win agreement on a tightening of the requirements for ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
Most aldermen seemed to worry if the city workers who man the 311 city services call center are replaced by people unfamiliar with the city, requests for neighborhood services could be mishandled, and aldermen would be blamed.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposal for the City's largest ever Property Tax increase won key committee approval Tuesday afternoon, but the vote was far from unanimous.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel says officials are ready for activists who want to thwart the city's gun buyback program, reports WBBM's Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
Every classroom at the Chicago Public Schools should have broadband wireless Internet access by next school year, thanks to a $38 million federal grant announced Tuesday.
