Burnett, who also serves as City Hall's Zoning Committee chair, plans to step down from the City Council, regardless of ...

Southwest Side Ald. Marty Quinn (13th) wants to raise the threshold for approving City Hall borrowing from a simple majority, ...

A new push to legalize coach houses citywide is reviving a long-running zoning fight in Chicago as the proposal returns to the City Council’s agenda next week.

Johnson praised Burnett’s long record and personal history with public housing, calling him “an incredible asset to the ...

Disgraced former Chicago Ald. Ed Burke walked out of Thomson federal penitentiary in northwest Illinois on Tuesday, officials said.

Proposals to allow food trucks to operate in downtown Elgin, on publicly owned property and in Wing Park are headed to the ...

Officials with the federal Bureau of Prisons on Tuesday confirmed that Burke, 81, had been transferred from the Federal ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson said he plans to revive his bid to clear the way for garden apartments, attic-to-housing conversions ...

While approving a controversial payment, divisions deepened among councilors as one tried to oust the two top Democrats and ...

Indianapolis city councilors face several challenges, including a proposal to strengthen the youth curfew, and calls for ...

Members of the Chicago Police Department brass were on the hot seat Tuesday for what some in the City Council called a "first ...

Ald. Walter Burnett Jr. may leave City Hall — eyeing the CHA, Congress or private sector — and pass his seat to one of his ...