Chicago City Council

The Proactive Rental Initiative would ensure units meet a minimum health and safety standard for tenants and hold landlords more accountable for making timely repairs.

Former Mayor Richard J. Daley talked about extending the Red Line South to 130th Street, today the City Council voted to make it happen.

Zoning for a Bally’s casino in Chicago got the blessing Tuesday of a City Council committee as a key alderperson accepted the company’s promises to hire minorities.

The 3rd ward includes parts of Bronzeville, South Loop and Douglas.

The Chicago City Council's finance committee is shelling out money.

The city’s planning agency Monday approved zoning for the proposed Bally’s casino at Chicago Avenue and Halsted Street, a step in the $1.7 billion project’s journey through government approvals.

The campaign cash came from a series of companies owned in part by Carmen Rossi, a registered lobbyist with contracts at City Hall and extensive financial interests in bars and other businesses regulated by the city.

Business leaders have taken a pass when it comes to fielding their own candidate in the crowded race for mayor of Chicago. But they’re apparently determined to prevent a City Council in transition from turning sharply to the left.

Indicted Chicago Ald. Edward Burke is choosing not to seek reelection to a record 15th term.

Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th) announced Monday he is ending his Chicago mayoral campaign and will instead seek a third term as alderman of the 15th Ward.

Outside of City Hall Thursday, the activist group “United Working Families” announced who it wants to see inside City Hall for City Council.

A Chicago City Council committee has voted in favor of a $5 million settlement in a 2019 police shooting.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot is preventing the Chicago City Council from considering a potential referendum question that residents would vote on in February, asking whether the city should double its tax on property sales where the price tag is over $1 million.