The committee has been without a full-time chair since August. The acting chair, Ald. Bennett Lawson, wants a resolution by ...

A showdown could be brewing at City Hall over council committee chairmanships as an alderman is already trying to force the mayor to name him to the Zoning Committee, one of the city's most ...

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The budget counterproposal crafted by opponents of Mayor Brandon Johnson won a critical first full City Council vote Friday, setting up the mayor to soon concede their remarkable weekslong fight — or ...

It has been months since the Chicago City Council approved a plan to update the way a roughly two-mile stretch of Broadway in ...

After a deadly teen takeover last year, a new “time and place" curfew proposal goes before a City Councill panel.

The silver lining in the budget wars of the Johnson term is the emergence of legitimate political talent on the City Council.

Chicago's public safety committee is expected to take up a revised ordinance to give police the authority to impose specific ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — The Chicago City Council passed a 2026 city budget during a rare and tension-filled Saturday session, a budget that does not include Mayor Brandon Johnson’s controversial corporate ...

The alternative budget proposal championed by a group of Chicago aldermen won a crucial first full City Council vote on Friday, even as Mayor Brandon Johnson made a last-ditch effort to reintroduce ...