As of now, the city estimates the interest payments on the proposed $285 million, five-year debt for the legal settlements ...

The City of Chicago has been paying out record-breaking number of legal settlements — many of them police-involved. Before the halfway point of the calendar year 2025, the city blew past the $90 ...

Inside the 2026 City of Chicago budget: four aldermen, real tradeoffs, and fresh updates. With a welcome from Alderman Brian ...

Chicago’s finances were already on life support. Now, with a single piece of legislation, the state of Illinois has pushed the city closer to fiscal collapse—and put every American taxpayer at risk of ...

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(AP) - The mayor of Chicago pushed back Saturday against what he called the “out-of-control” Trump administration’s plan to surge federal officers into the nation’s third-largest city, which could ...

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CHICAGO — We here in this "City of the Big Shoulders," this diverse, beautiful, complicated Midwestern metropolis, are preparing for a likely Donald Trump-ordered invasion of federal immigration ...

President Donald Trump has been declaring Chicago "the most dangerous city in the world" for months, but the data doesn't back up those claims, especially when put in context. Mr. Trump said again ...

The author and Tribune literary award winner has written a collection of short fiction reflecting on many different sides of life in Chicago.