Nora Vargas was nowhere to be found on her last day in public office. In her final months as county supervisor, she had a costly security detail and was accused of racism by a top county employee.

In a sit-down interview with Chalkbeat Tuesday, the mayor talked about contract negotiations with his allies at CTU, his ...

You may never have heard of Brooklyn, Illinois. You might not be aware it’s one of the country’s first Black settlements, or ...

Is it significant? Yes. Is it historical? Yes. Is it neglected? Yes. So, these things should be saved, not paved over and ...

One of Chicago’s largest developers will invoke a little-known and untested provision of city law in an attempt to win ...

Chicago’s kids are ending up in hospitals after ingesting synthetic THC in the form of gummies. Their mayor just kept that ...

Coming on the heels of Antioch coming to an agreement with the Department of Justice to put its police department under ...

The Minneapolis City Council is expected to decide Monday whether to approve an agreement with the federal government in response to the murder of George Floyd that would ...

systemic racism and capitalism keep the injustices going. All of this is based on categorically false assumptions about the past. We need only look at how the modern idea of our common humanity ...

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration passed on applying for state funding for a city-owned grocery store, raising questions about the future of the bold proposal the mayor first ...

The chairman of the Met’s Black Police Association swapped racist comments and sick jokes with a colleague in a WhatsApp group, a misconduct hearing has been told. Inspector Charles Ehikioya ...

Hundreds turned out to witness history as Renard Johnson was sworn in as El Paso's first Black mayor. "Today marks a new chapter for our city," Johnson said at the end of the night. "A day to ...