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 ...

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.

Portage City Councilman Collin Czilli persuaded the council to amend the budget to include 3.5% raises for elected officials.

Jonathan Nieuwsma will be interim mayor until April 2027, when a special election will name former Mayor Daniel Biss’ ...

Evanston District 65 CFO Miller confirmed a $17 million math error in the budget, but said plan to close schools remains ...

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.

Visitors to the Amstar gas station in Aurora had a chance to fill up with more than just fuel from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The old adage, if it looks too good to be true, it probably is, was never truer than when a book publisher contacted me via ...

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

Hundreds of Evanston/Skokie School District 65 parents and students staged a rally before Monday’s school board meeting, ...