Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2024 trip to Springfield was a fiasco as he lobbied for a taxpayer-funded Chicago Bears stadium on Chicago’s lakefront and failed even to ask Gov. JB Pritzker for more money ...

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Mayor Brandon Johnson will return to Springfield next week to ratchet up the pressure on his funding requests for Chicago, but under a local and national political landscape that has shifted starkly ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WLS) -- Mayor Brandon Johnson was in Springfield Wednesday lobbying the governor and leading lawmakers for funding for Chicago. The visit came with just one month left in the ...

SPRINGFIELD – A major airline is reinstating a flight between Illinois’ capital city and the windy city. The Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport earlier this summer made the announcement that American ...

The $1.5 billion transit funding bill is with Gov. Pritzker. The Springfield airport director said it is "imperative" network commercial air service continue. American Airlines contended the market ...

The fiscal hits just keep coming for Chicago, this time courtesy of the city’s representatives and senators in Springfield. The latest fiasco played out in the final hours of the General Assembly’s ...

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State legislators authorized $3.75 million to help keep daily commercial flights operating between Springfield and Chicago. The subsidy was contained in a single paragraph tucked inside the 1,036-page ...

Springfield Public Schools will dedicate the basketball court at Central High School to former NBA player and Central alum ...