Mayor Brandon Johnson claims he 'inherited' the city's spiraling migrant crisis at press conference announcing new initiative to tackle the problem Johnson criticized Lightfoot's administration ...

CBS News Chicago’s political analysts—former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and former Illinois Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady—discuss the performance of former President Donald Trump and ...

The proposed budget cuts would be a step backward for the CPD reform process at a pivotal point — just when progress is ...

Darion McMillian, 23, was charged last week with killing Martinez using a handgun modified with an extended magazine and ...

San Francisco’s London Breed is the latest is a string of Democratic mayors who’ve faced fierce reelection headwinds due to voters’ concerns over crime and street conditions.

After Abbott sent just a few buses of these migrants to Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot held a hysterical press conference in which she charged, “He is manufacturing a human crisis, and it makes ...

Henyard was elected mayor of the village in 2021 and appointed Thornton Township supervisor in 2022. Lightfoot was not the only one looking into the village. CBS News reported that the FBI is also ...

Mayor Johnson’s second spending plan has already faced a series of hurdles that mark this as one of the most contentious fall budget seasons in recent years.

Mayors and CEOs come and go, but litigation lives on long after they’re gone. Grubhub co-founder Matt Maloney, who stepped down as CEO nearly three years ago, says he’s about to be deposed in a ...

This comes amid tension between Johnson and Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez, who was appointed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot in 2021. A Sun-Times report last month said, according to sources ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has named members of a new school board, days after all seven members resigned amid an escalating fight over control of the public schools in the nation’s third-largest c ...