Homeowners face skyrocketing property taxes in Chicago as downtown vacancy rates climb and commercial tax burden shifts to ...

Inside the 2026 City of Chicago budget: four aldermen, real tradeoffs, and fresh updates. With a welcome from Alderman Brian ...

The proposed budget is built around controversial proposals such as a new tax on hemp products and an employee head tax.

More than half of Illinois voters and one-third of Chicago voters said high taxes were their No. 1 concern. Despite that, Springfield and Chicago politicians both are hiking taxes again to spend more.

Ahead of the second anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson Whole Women’s Health Organization, the case that eliminated the federal right to abortion, hear from Illinois abortion advocates, providers, and ...

President Trump’s Justice Department sued the state of Illinois, the city of Chicago and local officials Thursday over laws creating a sanctuary city. Accusing the officials of impeding federal ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WBEZ and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. It takes approximately 700,000 megawatt hours of electricity to power Chicago ...

The City of Chicago has sued the U.S. Department of Justice, challenging unlawful DEI conditions on a $6.25 million community ...

The State of Illinois and the City of Chicago have launched a joint lawsuit against the Trump administration over its deployment of the National Guard in Broadview, Illinois, a suburb just outside of ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was confronted by a reporter at a press conference who bluntly asked him why he was a “racist.” On Monday, the Department of Justice announced it had launched an ...

On Monday afternoon, the Trump administration and lawyers for the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago filed additional ...