In a social media post last week, Mendoza said hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue left Illinois when Citadel ...

Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza says Chicago is chasing job creators away with crippling policies. Citadel moved 900 ...

Black men in the West Side community face some of the biggest hurdles to getting a degree. Just 1 out of 4 who make it to ...

The Chicago City Council was set to gather Monday for the first of five meetings scheduled before Christmas. City leaders are racing to pass a budget before the end of the year. Mayor Brandon Johnson ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson immediately rejected the proposal to increase the city’s debt collection efforts as a tax “on everyday ...

Chicago's City Council is pressing ahead with an alternative 2026 budget despite warnings from Mayor Brandon Johnson’s team ...

New York proves crime and disorder are not inevitable. Chicago leaders should study what worked and why it mattered.

Policies such as the head tax threaten to make Chicago’s fiscal problems worse by discouraging job creation and economic ...

Three quarters of respondents to a new poll say they’ll hold the Chicago mayor responsible if he vetoes the City Council’s ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson called the plan speculative, infeasible and immoral, but has yet to announce whether he would veto the plan. It would take 34 votes to override that rejection.

Illinois sports betting operators are already paying higher state taxes, but Chicago’s revised budget keeps a city tax on the ...

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 25 basis points at its final meeting of 2025, with investors focusing on the ...