Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson launches campaign for Chicago mayor
The race is getting bigger as another candidate is jumping into the race for Chicago mayor.
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The race is getting bigger as another candidate is jumping into the race for Chicago mayor.
The news conference will happen in City Hall at 2:30 p.m.
Chicago's mayors haven't had any pay raises since 2006, but a proposal from Mayor Lori Lightfoot could change that starting in 2024.
"We believe that CPS is unable to separate our former CEO and founder from what's currently going on at Urban Prep, the current leadership that exist. And that's problematic."
Chicago Public Schools leadership has recommended the Chicago Board of Education revoke the charters from Urban Prep's campuses in Englewood and Bronzeville
Young, an innocent social worker, was handcuffed naked as officers swarmed her home in a botched raid in 2019.
The group is calling on the city to raise the real estate transfer tax on high-end property sales, using that money to invest in affordable housing and services for the homeless.
The takeaway, for the most part, is that the city is in a good fiscal spot. But not everyone agrees.
The mayor is foregoing her original plan for a 2.5% property tax increase, which officials estimated would have cost the average owner of a $250,000 home approximately $34 next year.
The city's partnership with Mexico City dates back 30 years.
Owners of buildings on LaSalle Street between Washington Street and Jackson Boulevard are eligible to respond to the invitation for proposals in order possibly to receive city support.
Chicago city and Illinois state leaders are hoping their announcement of two new building projects will lure Chicago workers back downtown in person.
As a rise in book bans is happening nationwide, Mayor Lori Lightfoot is declaring Chicago a book sanctuary city.
Knudsen has already filed paperwork organizing a campaign committee to run for a full term in 2023.
Lightfoot is testifying Thursday along with other Great Lakes mayors at a federal field hearing on the Infrastructure Act.
The mayor's office said the advisory council includes residents and community groups from the neighborhoods surrounding the permanent casino site in River West, as well as experts on a range of topics related to the casino.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot's office confirmed the latest group of 103 migrants arrived at Union Station around 3 p.m. Wednesday
Garcia would almost certainly become the instant favorite to unseat Lightfoot, after forcing then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel into a runoff election in 2015.
The activists are having a hard time keeping up, as they are not really given a heads-up of when the migrants will arrive in Chicago from Texas – until it has already happened.
The bus of families brings the total of people bused here to 125.
The migrants arrived on a bus that let them off outside Union Station Wednesday night.
More than a fifth of the City Council is now either leaving or has already left mid-term.
In the years following the shooting death of Laquan McDonald by Chicago Police, an effort has been made to bring the community into the decision-making process around police policy.
Businesses found out about contracting opportunities in fields including construction, information tech and transportation.
It will include more than 70 units and the project is expected to finish in 2024.
Chicago (50-45) swept the three-game series by outscoring the A's 24-2 after getting swept in three games against Boston.
The victim was taken to Silver Cross Hospital with life-threatening injuries before later being transferred to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood for further treatment.
Sen. Mitch McConnell released a statement on his health on Sunday along with a photo of himself and his wife, Elaine Chao, after questions swirled about his condition.
Chicago took two of three from the Reds and entered the All-Star break at 54-42, in position for an NL wild card and five games back of NL Central-leading Milwaukee.
A woman has been charged after a burglary and standoff in Aurora, Illinois, this weekend.
Sen. Mitch McConnell released a statement on his health on Sunday along with a photo of himself and his wife, Elaine Chao, after questions swirled about his condition.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) issued a statement honoring the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), who died this weekend.
President Trump paid tribute to the late senator, who was reportedly scheduled to do an interview on Sunday.
A landmark housing bill automatically became law overnight after President Trump declined to sign it.
Graham Platner had until 5 p.m. on Monday to formally suspend his campaign or he would remain on the ballot in November.
Chicago remained the most bed bug-treated city in the country, according to Orkin's latest annual rankings covering a full year of residential and commercial treatment data.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul this week warned residents cleaning up from last month's storms to be on the lookout for scams.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday signed several new consumer protections into law, including a ban on junk fees.
CBS News Chicago has learned that Illinois home insurance premiums are not only higher than the nation's average, but going up faster too.
As an alternative to legalizing video gambling terminals citywide, Bally's offered to open slot machine lounges at O'Hare and Midway, saying the move would replace the $6.8 million the city budgeted from VGTs.
In a major turnaround in the opioid crisis, overdose deaths are falling across Chicago and Cook County.
The north Chicago suburb of Glenview became the latest Illinois municipality this week to confirm mosquitoes testing positive for the West Nile virus this year.
Environmental and community groups are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to act on a petition challenging U.S. Steel Gary Works operating permit renewal.
In the four years since Roe v. Wade was overturned and Illinois became a destination for abortion care, Illinois providers and advocates have rebuilt the state's infrastructure to support the tens of thousands of people who travel to the state for abortion services every year.
June is National Aphasia Awareness Month, raising awareness of a disorder that affects a person's ability to speak, write, and understand both spoken and written language.
Illinois American Water and Aqua Illinois are both seeking rate increases that would raise monthly bills by as much as $28, while their parent companies seek regulatory approval to merge — a deal a consumer watchdog says would give one company control of nearly all regulated water customers in the state.
The Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general from several states secured a right-to-repair settlement Wednesday with agriculture equipment giant Deere & Co. — commonly known as John Deere — that requires the company to let farmers and independent shops fix their own equipment.
Chicago Soul Café opened Monday at 6248 S. St. Lawrence Ave.
The Chicago Bears this weekend said they are assessing land at Wolf Lake Terminals in Hammond, Indiana, for a possible new stadium.
As an alternative to legalizing video gambling terminals citywide, Bally's offered to open slot machine lounges at O'Hare and Midway, saying the move would replace the $6.8 million the city budgeted from VGTs.
The 46th Taste of Chicago is cashless for the first time, accepting only credit cards, with a drone and fireworks show scheduled for approximately 9:15 p.m. Friday near Buckingham Fountain.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra's summer home in Highland Park reopened after a $70 million gut renovation that redesigned the stage to reduce sound levels harmful to musicians.
Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh pop star best known for singing the chart-topping power ballad "Total Eclipse of the Heart" in 1983, has died. She was 75.
The nominations for the 78th annual Primetime Emmy Awards were announced Wednesday morning in Los Angeles, with the final season of HBO Max's "Hacks" setting a new record for the most nominations in a single year for a comedy series.
Nikki Glaser, Michelle Wolf, Ali Siddiq and Bert Kreischer are among the comedians coming to the city to perform from Nov. 5 to Nov. 15.
At 9:45 p.m. Saturday, Munster police were called to the 9300 block of Chestnut Lane, where they found a woman with a facial gunshot wound. She was taken to an area hospital for treatment, police said.
She will support victims and witnesses at the domestic violence courthouse.
McConnell said he was "briefly unconscious" after he took a fall last month and he had been dealing with a "mild case of pneumonia."
When officers arrived, they found that a home had been broken into and found a woman inside. The woman refused to come out, prompting a response from the Aurora police Crisis Negotiations and Special Response Team.
Sunday marks 60 years since Dr. Martin Luther King junior spoke at First Immanuel Lutheran Church, located near Ashland and Roosevelt.
Chicago police fired shots during a confrontation with a large group in Grant Park in downtown Chicago early Sunday morning.
President Trump paid tribute to the late senator, who was reportedly scheduled to do an interview on Sunday.
The victim was taken to Silver Cross Hospital with life-threatening injuries before later being transferred to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood for further treatment.
Due to the allegation, Father Pfleger will step aside from ministry and live away from the parish during the investigation, the archdiocese said.
Sen. Mitch McConnell released a statement on his health on Sunday along with a photo of himself and his wife, Elaine Chao, after questions swirled about his condition.
The university released what it's called a strategy statement about the impact it's already seeing artificial intelligence make on higher education and the legal profession.
New Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke is fighting innocence claims more often than her predecessor, Kim Foxx, and hiring outside counsel to help.
On Tuesday evening, CBS News Chicago reported on wild weeds taking over a property in the South Side's Washington Heights neighborhood, and neighbors who said they spent months trying to get help.
Kevin Jackson was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent 22 years in prison before he was freed. Now he has realized his dream by starting a landscaping business. But his quest to be declared innocent continues.
The weeds keep growing, and the complaints keep piling up, but neighbors on one street in the Washington Heights community on Chicago's South Side say nothing is changing.
Chicago (50-45) swept the three-game series by outscoring the A's 24-2 after getting swept in three games against Boston.
Chicago took two of three from the Reds and entered the All-Star break at 54-42, in position for an NL wild card and five games back of NL Central-leading Milwaukee.
Michael Busch had three hits and Carson Kelly also went deep for the Cubs, who improved to 3-2 on their six-game trip before the All-Star break.
Los Angeles shot 51% from the field, including 14 of 31 from 3-point range, while Chicago was just 6 of 25 behind the arc.
Chicago clinched winning a home series for the 11th time in its last 12.
A woman has been charged after a burglary and standoff in Aurora, Illinois, this weekend.
A suspected shooter held police in a standoff in Munster, Indiana, this weekend woman was shot in the face in a domestic incident, police said Sunday.
One man was killed and another was wounded in a shooting at the edge of Chicago's Logan Square community Saturday night.
Three people were wounded early Sunday morning in a shooting on Chicago's Near West Side.
Chicago police fired shots during a confrontation with a large group in Grant Park in downtown Chicago early Sunday morning.
