Block Club reporters went into the neighborhoods to talk to voters after the biggest GOP bump in Chicago since 1992.

Desperate to avoid hitting Chicago home and business owners with a $300 million property tax increase, aldermen pelted the ...

Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, both Democrats who served as surrogates for Kamala Harris, waited until she gave her concession speech before issuing their own statements. Pritzker ...

K-12 education was a top political concern for Democrats up until everyone realized how terribly they managed it.

Chicago was a political pincushion for Trump during his first ... You would hope that he would see this expansion in keeping ...

Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling announces charges Wednesday against a man accused of shooting to death Officer Enrique ...

Voters have chosen the first 10 members of their elected Chicago Public Schools board. Amid a chaotic fall, here are answers ...

The CTU had sought to tie opposing candidates to Donald Trump, Republican billionares and Project 2025. Some of the opposing candidates sought to tie the CTU candidates to Johnson. At the end of the ...

Illinoisans are well aware that enjoying a cocktail in Chicago is usually a pricey venture, but if the mayor has his way, it ...

As we write, four school board candidates endorsed by the Chicago Teachers Union appear to have won seats in 10 districts.

Two recent developments highlight Chicago’s struggle. First, on the Shabbat morning of Oct. 26, a 39-year-old man walking to synagogue in the heavily Jewish neighborhood of West Rogers Park was shot ...

Chicago voters have rejected Mayor Brandon Johnson’s education agenda as only four of 10 candidates endorsed by the powerful teacher’s union will hold seats on the city’s new hybrid Board of Education ...