A.D. Quig

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2025 budget plan for Chicago police slashes several offices that are critical to the ongoing federal consent decree, sparking alarm from policing experts who say

Voters on Tuesday will choose the new Cook County state’s attorney, either Democrat Eileen O’Neill Burke or Republican Bob Fioretti.

Desperate to avoid hitting Chicago home and business owners with , aldermen pelted the mayor's finance team Wednesday with questions about alternatives to plug the 2025 budget hole.

Samantha Steele, a first-term Democratic commissioner on the county's Board of Review, was arrested Sunday on a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence of alcohol, the Chicago Police Department confirmed.

Mayor Brandon Johnson is all but giving up on his proposed $300 million property tax hike before aldermen kill it, and pushing them to find other revenue in its place to avert layoffs. Johnson’s administration is combing over alternatives to the tax jump after members of the City Council scheduled a special meeting in the hopes of voting it down. The mayor’s team has presented an array of ...

With less than 20 days to go until her swearing in, Democratic State's Attorney-elect Eileen O'Neill Burke has started tapping outsiders for her transition team.

Some at City Hall are rallying around the idea of plugging the budget hole with money set aside to keep the city’s pension funds afloat.

Elected in 2016, Foxx has been in the middle of nearly every conversation about safety and justice in Cook County, often with a polarizing fervor.

Some summer campers, golfers and bowlers would see fee hikes next year under the Chicago Park District's proposed 2025 budget — but property taxpayers will be spared.

Cook County commissioners approved amendments to President Toni Preckwinkle’s $9.94 billion 2025 budget and took their final 17-0 vote in the span of about an hour.