Wednesday marks the beginning of Chicago City Council’s budget hearings, with alderpersons and their residents upset with ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson, who campaigned for Kamala Harris this past weekend in North Carolina, is reflecting on the election, ...

In the nation’s biggest cities, meanwhile, voters will determine the fate of mayors, sheriffs, criminal justice reform, ...

A closely-watched congressional race in Western Illinois could tilt the balance of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Chicagoans will vote for an elected school board for the first time.

CBS News Chicago asked candidates to share their views on four key issues facing the next board when all members are sworn in ...

Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi argued that many office buildings in Chicago’s Loop are worth more now than before the ...

In the final phase of his reassessment of all city property, the Cook County Assessor contends remote work and elevated interest rates have weakened some, but not all, of the vacancy-plagued downtown ...

By 1980, financial mismanagement led Chicago Public Schools to lose its ability to borrow money, to miss multiple payrolls ...

Occasionally the actual price is omitted from filed deeds. Because of this, some prices listed here are based on the 1 percent tax paid when the property was ...

ILLINOIS IS A SLEEPER in the highly contested presidential race, but there are still races that matter on the local level. Here’s what we’re watching: ...

While we wait to learn who the next president will be, we’re also following school choice ballot measures, local school board ...

Only a handful of counties in South Carolina were reporting partial results at around 8 p.m. on Tuesday night. Even with ...