In the hours following Pope Francis’ death Monday, leaders from Illinois — including former President Barack Obama and Gov.

The Vatican said Francis, the first pope from Latin America, had died after a stroke, and revealed that his will requested a simple tomb in Rome.

Billionaire Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois is one of the top Democrats being watched as the party searches for a way out of the ...

The Chicago Teachers Union has long taken on neoliberal Democrats and won. Their latest contract is a victory against the new ...

Organizers need about 328,000 signatures to get on the state ballot and 52,000 for Chicago. A signature-gathering kickoff ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said he would be willing to meet with President Donald Trump but offered some of his strongest ...

There’s a long history of Black political leaders talking to people who may not see us as first class,” Johnson ...

Good morning, Exactly 40 years after they first met in Saturday morning detention, every member of the original Breakfast Club — the popular girl (Molly Ringwald), the ...

And that the city’s lakefront protection ... of the lakefront to say no. That’s how Chicago wound up with Lakeside Center at 23rd and the lake, the revamped (and publicly funded) Soldier Field in 2003 ...

As part of the nationwide push from Republicans to tighten immigration laws, the North Dakota Legislature approved a bill Wednesday to punish communities that enact “sanctuary city” policies ...

There are currently no communities in North Dakota with sanctuary city policies. The 2023 Legislature approved legislation banning all state entities, including the Board of Higher Education ...