The year-long debate over who will pay for the pensions of non-teaching Chicago Public Schools employees ended after a tense, hours-long meeting where the Chicago Board of Education voted to agree ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson's 31% job approval rating — up from 26% last summer — follows months of mayoral attacks on budget cuts ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson laid out his proposal on how to close a projected nearly $1.2 billion budget deficit in 2026.

It’s all on quicksand — the very quicksand that has us really up against it financially… when there is no help coming from ...

Budget negotiations between members of the Chicago City Council have accelerated following Mayor Brandon Johnson’s initial proposal, which he unveiled last week.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Mayor Brandon Johnson on Thursday tried to diffuse concern that he might be planning to raise property taxes in order to deal with the looming budget crisis, offering a major budget ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson spoke with CBS News Chicago Monday morning to defend his 2026 budget proposal, which aims to close a ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s spending plan for Chicago Public Schools heavily relies on the prospective TIF revenue from the city.

Fifteen years ago, Dan Montgomery and Karen Lewis set out on a road trip to Springfield determined to force changes to a bill they saw as an attack on teacher unions, particularly the one in Chicago.

The city’s police and fire pension funds will be “technically insolvent.” ...

AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) – The Amarillo Police Department updated its call for information Tuesday morning, after a child was found near the Civic Center. The child was identified and reunited with ...

A September protest against federal immigration raids in Chicago. Protests can run up police overtime costs, one of myriad ways Immigration and Customs Enforcement and National Guard deployments may ...