Susana Mendoza vowed in a City Club of Chicago speech Wednesday to make fixing the city’s credit ratings one of her top priorities as mayor.

The Democratic campaign for Alaska’s U.S. Senate seat was involved in efforts to place on the ballot a candidate with the ...

The Chicago school board campaign has become typical rough-and-tumble politics and candidates are throwing punches.

The first two seats on the Lake County Council won’t be filled by an incumbent this election cycle. In District 1, Democrat ...

The Federal Reserve kept its key rate unchanged Wednesday at about 3.9% despite stubbornly high inflation, while providing ...

Police officials had few answers Wednesday as aldermen questioned them about the gunshot detection technology Mayor Brandon Johnson plans to start testing.

CTA Green and Pink Line commuters are in for a little more pain as the completion of major construction work on the Lake ...

Orland Township voters are asked whether residents should be able to propose laws by citizen petition and OK them by ...

Jurors convicted Stuart Roane, 60, of Marion, Ind. late Tuesday of Level 6 felony criminal recklessness — a low-level felony ...

Providence is the only ranked team that needed to come through with an opening-round win in the expanded IHSA playoffs.

A 2027 Chicago bride is searching for her mom’s wedding dress, lost more than a decade ago. Along the way, she made another family’s dream come true.

Students at Aurora University have continued the longstanding tradition on campus of erecting a personalized Day of the Dead ofrenda in the library of the school.