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The BriefThrough the first six months of this year, Chicago saw about a 33% decrease in homicides compared to the same period ...
The Chicago Housing Authority has cycled through eight top executives in the past year; Brandon Johnson is expected to ...
The masters of the universe were in a lather last week after New York City Democrats nominated Zohran Mamdani — an honest-to-God, dyed-in-the-wool socialist — to be mayor of the finance capital of the ...
Chicago officials held the first of four “budget engagement roundtables” designed to gather feedback about the city’s 2026 ...
Chicago officials have begun a series of public budget discussions as the city grapples with a deficit of more than $1 ...
Lakeisha Purchase, a Springfield alderwoman, coordinated with officials in Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's administration to lobby on behalf of the city in the Illinois General Assembly, but her state ...
Democrat Karen Bass is the mayor of Los Angeles who praised Castro upon his death. Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson, of Chicago, recently had a 6.6% approval rating. Now, an avowed socialist, Zohran ...
Mayor Brandon Johnson announces 2026 Budget Engagement Roundtable events for Chicagoans' input on city budget priorities.
President  Donald  Trump is planning Immigration and Customs Enforcements (ICE) operations in some of the nation’s largest ...
House Speaker Mike Johnson criticized Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson for opposing immigration enforcement, saying he was "on ...
We’ve seen this movie before, and the ending isn’t pretty,” the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune warned New York voters ...
The first murdered mayor was Carter Harrison. On October 28, 1893, two days before the closing of the World’s Columbian ...