Civic Federation President Joe Ferguson is warning Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to be careful about what he wishes for in ...

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

Mayor Johnson’s finance team faced close questioning about taxes and revenues during City Council’s initial budget hearing. Alder Nicole Lee warned the administration that she’s worried the proposed ...

Also in the negative column for Johnson: the fact that Chicago and especially Latino-majority wards moved to the political ...

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 ...

Public funding for a lakefront Bears stadium project was soundly defeated in a non-binding referendum engineered by Pat Quinn for several voting districts.

(Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune) Illinois voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved three advisory questions put on the ballot by Democrats, including one asking whether the highest earners should be ...

Preliminary, unofficial election results show no seats in the state House or Senate have changed party hands, although a few ...

Allen County voters rejected a half-cent sales tax to fund EMS services and picked John Brocker to serve on the county commission. LaHarpe also rejected a sales tax question. Moran voters picked a ...

Illinois voters approved three nonbinding ballot questions, including one asking whether the highest earners should be taxed ...

Madison voters passed a $22 million funding referendum Tuesday, authorizing the city to increase the property tax levy limit by $22 million.  With the extra funding, city officials hope to address the ...

Nearly 24 hours after polls closed Tuesday in the Sioux Falls area, state legislative candidates can finally claim their ...