By a surprisingly lopsided vote of 30 to 18, the City Council approved Johnson’s “green social housing” plan to create a city ...

Chicago faces an affordable housing shortfall of more than 119,000 units, and more than half of Chicagoans spend more than 30 ...

The plan would set up a city-owned nonprofit developer to oversee a $135 million fund to provide loans to developers to build ...

The policy to use city cash to help finance housing construction could set an example for other locales seeking to build ...

Unions, nonprofits and local governments allege the staff reductions threaten vital services and public safety.

What do you do if your city promises to pay you, but fails to do so? That’s precisely what happened to the owners of a vacant lot in Brighton Park, a neighborhood in Chicago. NBC 5 reports that ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson asks Springfield for funding as Trump-era cuts threaten $3.5 billion in federal aid and strain ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is likely to face some resistance from elected officials when he leads a delegation to ...

Finance Committee Chair Pat Dowell said the plan would simply benefit affluent communities and do little to uplift ...

The Chicago City Council Finance Committee voted on two major settlements Friday. In a narrow 12-15 vote, the committee voted down a $1.25 million payment for the family of Dexter Reed ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago City Council's Finance Committee rejected a $1.25 million settlement Friday in the civil rights lawsuit over the controversial fatal police shooting of Dexter Reed ...