DuPage Chairman Seeks To Halt Pension Abuses
In a bid to control pension costs, the DuPage County Board has created a special committee to look into solving the problem.
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In a bid to control pension costs, the DuPage County Board has created a special committee to look into solving the problem.
Interim Police Supt. Terry Hillard says people in government must do more to keep children safe from the kind of gun violence that wounded two young people in the Washington Park neighborhood over the weekend.
A City Council committee is wrestling with constitutional rights and community concerns, as they near a decision on a requested sign for the controversial hot dog stand known as Felony Franks.
A diagnosis of prostate cancer is forcing the mayor of Gary to suspend his campaign for re-election.
An audit by Chicago's Inspector General suggests the agency that runs the City's 9-1-1 center has wasted money and lost track of electronics equipment.
As he prepares to conclude his 22 years in office, Mayor Richard M. Daley kicked off a kind of "farewell tour" of Chicago's neighborhoods with a stop on the Near West Side Thursday.
Amid all the talk about a new City Council, some aldermen are experiencing a mixture of happy expectation and concern.
After nearly 40 years and plenty of controversies, Bernard Stone is out as alderman of the West Rogers Park neighborhood's 50th Ward.
In suburban elections, there were a number of upsets and incumbents getting the heave-ho.
This week's elections will usher in a new look for the Chicago City Council, even if all the incumbents on the ballot win.
Chicago's Inspector General says old problems persist in the way the City orders, stores and keeps track of prescription drugs for its clinics.
The City Council is taking applications for the job of being the Council's own Inspector General.
The Kane County Board is expected to decide on a proposal to reduce that body by two members, and one commissioner believes it will be a close vote.
State lawmakers and advocates for immigrants' rights are condemning a federal program, which they say is targeting families and not the worst criminals for which it was designed.
The head of the Chicago Urban League says the group is pressing forward with its lawsuit against the state of Illinois over the way public schools are funded across the state.
Several Illinois Senate Republicans say they are ready to sit down and talk with Gov. Pat Quinn about the state budget, but not about more long-term borrowing.
Election officials in Chicago and the suburbs say they are seeing encouraging numbers in the people participating in early voting now underway.
The troubled Block 37 shopping complex has been auctioned off to Bank of America for $100 million.
Cook County is working with 13 local governments to help get tax delinquent properties back on the tax rolls.
North suburban Highland Park is among several communities that will choose a new mayor in the April 5 elections.
Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel says he wants his team to redesign a government that doesn't discourage businesspeople from doing business with the city.
Mayor Richard M. Daley says worries about nuclear plant meltdowns in Japan should not make people oppose building new nuclear power plants here in the United States.
Mayor Richard M. Daley announced Tuesday that the city's summer jobs program will offer 4,000 fewer jobs than last year, due to the loss of funding from the federal stimulus program.
Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel is now all but ruling out relaxing Chicago's residency requirements for police officer, firefighters and other city employees.
More all-male and all-female schools, and an increased focus on college preparatory programs, are all on Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel's education agenda.
