But that hasn’t stopped the buzz about who might step up to the pos that Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton has held since taking ...

The Chicago City Council, long derided as a mayoral puppet, is increasingly operating independent of the wishes of the ...

Get used to it: The blow for blow, tit for tat is an example of the extent that politics has permeated every level of ...

Ald. Raymond Lopez is standing behind comments and social media posts related to the shooting, but Ald. Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez has said they are inaccurate, dangerous, and violate the public trust.

The tension in City Council chambers was palpable when Ald. Anthony Beale and Ald. Brendan Reilly confronted Mayor Brandon ...

MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee is home to one of the oldest Juneteenth celebrations in the nation. Those celebrations kick off ...

Michael Madigan, the country’s longest-serving state House leader, served as speaker of the Illinois House from 1983 until ...

If a Far Northwest Side alderman gets his way, Chicago City Council members could gain the authority to block short-term ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A war of words is heating up over a controversial social media post by Chicago Alderman Ray Lopez. It all stems from the shooting last week of a young couple at the Jewish Museum ...

What that curfew would be used for is deterrence. We would like to have something like that in advance when we know that ...

Michael Madigan, the longest-serving legislative leader in U.S. history, was convicted of trading legislation for the ...

U.S. District Judge John Blakey handed down the sentence Friday, four months after the former Illinois House speaker was ...