Ballroom’s pageantry comes to life in the form of balls. Participants and houses compete in various categories for prizes, money and trophies. Some of the categories are: Runway, Vogue Femme, and ...

The Chicago Police Department exceeded its nearly $2 billion budget, approved by the Chicago City Council, by $207 million, according to city data.

In all, Chicago owes $35.9 billion to its four employee pension funds representing police officers, firefighters, municipal ...

Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday approved a bill creating a direct admissions program. Along with it, he approved bills that ...

Enter up to three proposed names via an online form. Representatives from the contest’s sponsoring organizations — Chicago ...

More than 170 EPA employees put their names to the document, with about 100 more signing anonymously out of fear of ...

Chicago’s lakefront is famously open and free. So why is a prime section of Montrose Beach roped off every summer? Because it’s for the birds. Literally. The piping plovers. WTTW News explains.

Without the limits on party spending, large donors would be able to skirt caps on individual contributions to a candidate by ...

The finding from the administration is the latest intensification in the White House’s battle with Harvard, which lost more ...

Chicago officials held the first of four “budget engagement roundtables” designed to gather feedback about the city’s 2026 ...

If he wins a third term, Gov. JB Pritzker will become only the second Illinois governor to serve more than two terms.

Gov. JB Pritzker makes it official — he’s running for a third term. And the interim CPS CEO says Chicago schools face an even higher deficit than had been reported.