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As Chicagoans face down a holiday deadline to pay their property tax bills, Ald. Michael Rodriguez has unveiled a proposal to spend $10 million in unallocated…
Mayor Lori Lightfoot cleared a key hurdle to two longtime goals of her first term — delivering Chicago’s first-ever casino and an extension of the CTA…
Weather officials Wednesday said the strongest of the winds expected to hit the area happened Tuesday night as a storm system continued to move from the…
A special taxing district to help fund the long-sought CTA Red Line southern extension got the nod from the Chicago City Council Wednesday.The tax-increment financing district,…
Parents of a special needs student seen pushed to the ground in a video posted on social media have declined a formal police investigation, Elmhurst police…
Chicago police officers are expected to pack a federal courtroom Wednesday for the sentencing of an Indiana man who admitted to straw-purchasing the handgun later used…
Keeping up with economic development wunderkind Morgan Malone is an exercise in pacing. She’s spearheading the Bronzeville Lakefront project for Farpoint Development, which is developing the…
After nine years of construction and hundreds of millions of dollars in cost overruns, the massive rebuild of the Jane Byrne Interchange that connects major expressways…
Eighteen years ago, Chatrivia Kennedy learned she was HIV positive when her partner was hospitalized with an HIV-related illness. She was eight months pregnant.She suffered in…
Chicago police charged a man with murder for allegedly shooting dead three people after being asked to leave a birthday party early Sunday morning at a…