Chicagoans in 2025 will start paying more in certain taxes, fines and fees as part of balanced budget OK’d by Mayor Brandon ...

Completing their 51st and final full calendar year at the Robert O. Atcher Municipal Center today, Schaumburg officials ...

At the heart of Chicago’s deficit are decades of increasingly generous retirement benefits offered by Chicago’s leaders to more than 30,000 public employees, a politically powerful constituency. Today ...

From an organizational shift in focus to the Chicago lakefront, to the end of a long-running tax battle in Arlington Heights, ...

W. Bush is on President Biden’s federal death row commutation list. While 53-year-old Maine man Charles Hall is on the commutation list, Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was left off the list ...

Passage this week was no sure thing, and after lots of scrambling Johnson at least was able to avoid the worst-case scenario of entering the new year with no budget at all. Congrats. But that’s about ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a mysterious floor of bones during investigations in the center of a city in the Netherlands ... Researchers plan to continue investigating the floor in order ...

The budget proposal, now in its third draft, includes increased property taxes, as well as increased costs to park in a Chicago garage, buy a grocery checkout bag and use streaming services.

One day before a scheduled City Council vote on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $17.3 billion 2025 budget, the Fifth Floor wouldn't answer ... voted "yes" on the budget plan in committee after publicly ...

Shortly after 5 p.m. Council President Kenyatta Johnson arrived on the floor and once again moved ... Therefore, the council will be back at it again at city hall Thursday morning at 8:30.

A fire broke out at City Hall Wednesday afternoon ... campuses — monthly costs can then exceed $10K and health care plans can reach $7M The 11 Rudest Things You Can Do In Someone Else’s ...