Mike Flannery

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot spoke publicly for the first time since testing positive for COVID-19, and she said she's flying to Washington, D.C. Tuesday night.

Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin posted a video Monday afternoon announcing he will run as a Republican for governor of Illinois.

There are new calls for tougher security after thieves struck a west suburban shopping mall again Friday.

Democratic lawmakers in Springfield are proposing to spend more money to reduce carjackings, which have tripled in number and are more violent than ever.

The union won two demands, but not others. And, in a big departure from past CTU job actions, this time Chicago teachers may not be paid for any of the days that they refused to report to their classrooms.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot appointed the first executive director to a new community commission that will play a role in formulating police and in hiring and firing police superintendents.

Illinois is one of 13 states that allows public employees to strike.

“He was ready to pull the White House and the People's House — this United States Capitol — down around him in order to overturn an election which he had lost,” Sen. Dick Durbin said.

"It’s an unauthorized wildcat strike. It's the employees telling the boss, ‘we're doing what we want! Pay us anyway. And, if you don't succumb to what our terms of employment are, too bad!’ That's exactly what it is. It's a wildcat strike," said labor lawyer Burt Odelson.

After three decades in the U.S. House, South Side Congressman Bobby Rush says he will not run for a 16th term.