Mayor Brandon Johnson moves to oust the head of the Chicago Housing Authority’s board. And the U.S. Supreme Court casts a skeptical eye on the president’s plan to curtail birthright citizenship.

After years of litigation, the state of Illinois faces one final lawsuit over how it rolled out licenses to “social equity ...

It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare — all these individual things,” President Donald Trump ...

NASA released the crew’s first downlinked images Friday, 1 1/2 days into the first astronaut moonshot in more than half a ...

Chicago recorded an increase in both the number of homicides and people shot throughout March 2026 compared to the same month ...

To address “long-standing registration frustrations,” the district announced the first wave of improvements to the process, ...

The man charged in the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman now faces additional firearms charges in federal court.

The Responsible Gun Manufacturers Act, versions of which have been introduced into both the Illinois House and Senate, would ...

The announcement follows months of scrutiny over the Justice Department’s handling of files related to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex ...

The Chicago Palestine Film Festival runs April 11-25 at the Gene Siskel Film Center. This year, the festival has more than 50 ...

Over the past five years, 59 petitions have been filed with the Illinois Department of Corrections from those incarcerated in ...

Every Thursday, WTTW News newsletter producer Josh Terry highlights his picks for the week’s must-see cultural events.