Mayor Johnson defends Chicago's diverse leadership as DOJ opens hiring probe — and he’s not mincing words about President Trump.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Mayor Brandon Johnson says he's done everything he can to keep the Bears in Chicago. Recently, the team said it's focusing on Arlington Heights for a new stadium instead of one along ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was confronted by a reporter at a press conference who bluntly asked him why he was a "racist." ...

The ordinance faced a scheduled vote Wednesday, but Alds. Jason Ervin and Andre Vasquez used a procedural maneuver to delay ...

The City Council authorized seven additional settlements that will cost beleaguered Chicago taxpayers much more than the $82 ...

Before its unveiling on May 8 at the library in celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, the mural was on display at Duke University Hospital after it was completed in ...

Jason Lee, Mayor Brandon Johnson's senior mayoral adviser, acknowledged that for the foreseeable future, Arlington Heights ...

House Republicans are getting closer to passing President Donald Trump’s tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security.

The department took issue with comments the mayor made at a public event Sunday, in which he identified six high-level ...

Justin Northwest 800-meter prodigy Cooper Lutkenhaus is just finishing his sophomore year of high school, but he is already ...

Ishan Daya apologized for tearing down the poster in 2023, whose wording he also called “racist and dehumanizing.” ...

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