Gotion's $2 billion plant in Manteno will employ about 2,600 workers.

If your job is to expect—to demand—that people follow the law, it’s generally a good idea to do so yourself. That includes vaccine mandates.

The hedge fund mogul's message on crime is right on time.

A new fundraising pitch from the party calls for the plant in Manteno to be scrubbed amid national security concerns.

The governor defended the Prisoner Review Board's record as Senate Democrats reject another one of his nominees to it.

After another night of looting, Chicago and particularly downtown will never recover unless the criminal justice system actually works.

This city was built by immigrants — literally — and they could help rebuild it, if the pols get out of the way.

Though this game is far from over, multiple sources in government and close to the team tell Crain's Greg Hinz that building a new stadium in the city is not just a lever to extort better tax terms...

A proposal released today — entitled "First We Get The Money" — also outlines cuts in police spending, as well as a reinstatement of the head tax, creation of a high-end real estate transaction fee...

The state's attorney core job is to prosecute. And on that count, the report is almost silent.

Its population is growing. It's more diverse than most of the city. Yet downtown's often treated like a collection of office towers with a few apartment buildings tucked in. That mindset must change.

Methodically, often while we're distracted by scandal, the president and his administration are sabotaging environmental policies that took decades of bipartisan work to put in place.

Joe Ferguson has a warning for Chicago as he retires from 12 years as City Hall's top watchdog: the Lightfoot administration is incompetent, city government is broken and voters are too complacent....

The head of Cook County Circuit Court gave incomplete information last week on what happens to accused murderers.

Staffing is down at police stations across the city.

Sources say Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf is considering moving the organization from Guaranteed Rate Field, with selling the team as a possible option.

The city says everyone in public indoor settings has to wear a face covering, starting Friday, as daily case counts top 400.

In the first firm indication of how the state’s congressional alignment is likely to change, a map of proposed new U.S. House districts is being quietly shopped to key players. Republicans aren't...

Stung by a rising tide of street violence that endangers her political future, Mayor Lori Lightfoot today called for dramatic new steps to reverse Chicago’s crime wave.

The governor and mayor beseeched the Department of Homeland Security in a letter sent Monday.

In introducing a new bill to help other countries fight the pandemic, Rep. Krishnamoorthi talks about deaths in his own family.

With help from execs at Madison Dearborn, Citadel and other firms, Vallas pulls closer to Lightfoot and Wilson in the mayoral race for cash.

As the city braced for what promised to be a bloody holiday weekend, Deputy Mayor O'Malley was absent. But the mayor's people say his time off didn't affect the city's preparations.

A new report finds that, when transportation costs are factored in, Texas’s biggest metros aren’t the bargain they often claim to be.

The city's plans could snarl traffic for miles in all directions.

The higher speed should eventually allow trains to make it from Chicago to Springfield 10-15 minutes faster and to St. Louis around 20 minutes faster. 

Just as 9/11 changed us and how we live, this was the day it truly became clear that coronavirus will do the same here.

New Senate Democratic legislation toughens standards for holding children brought into the country without papers, guaranteeing food, health care and a lawyer. But it may draw fire from both the...

A potential standoff over the Chicago Tribune's long-term lease at the Freedom Center printing plant stands to throw a major roadblock into Bally's plan for a $1.7 billion riverfront casino and hotel...

Among possible contenders: rebuilding DuSable Lake Shore Drive and Union Station, extending the Blue Line and 75th Street rail work.

The Chicago congressman joins with five Democratic colleagues to accuse the president of violating the Constitution and personally profiting from the presidency.

A federal probe into the powerful alderman who wore a wire was supposed to be secret. But someone goofed, and the Sun-Times pounced—and defied a federal court ordering it not to print what it knew. 

The mayoral candidate owes FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried some thanks, and Chicago voters an explanation, writes Crain's Greg Hinz.

The retiring 47th Ward alderman announces his bid for city treasurer and is leading his agenda with ideas for a municipal bank and cutting student debt.

Are voters looking for something different in the State's Attorney's office? The two current contenders promise varying degrees of change.

With COVID still affecting patronage, the transit agency aims to cut prices of monthly and other passes and to make transfers free. 

Deeds are what count now. Let's see if our officials finally can pull it off.

Now we know more about the footprint of the big event Lightfoot wants to bring here next summer to give local tourism a jolt. Get set for a wider, longer impact than previously disclosed.

City Hall secretly offered a two-for-one deal to one casino bidder that was not given to a competitor. Why? That's the question at least two prominent aldermen are asking as the news circulates.

The scion of one of Chicago's biggest business families tells the City Club of Chicago the community must be part of the solution and has begun opening its collective wallet to help.

After two years of revelations, it's obvious Madigan's closest associates felt that no one could hold them to account, however foul the deed. It's time for the Illinois House speaker to go, Greg Hinz...

An independent group that has spent $165,000 on ads promoting Vallas for mayor has strong apparent ties to his campaign.

That's what's on the table now. And the stakes go way beyond abortion, even in a blue state like Illinois.

Fritz Kaegi, the man who unseated Joe Berrios, orders an outside audit and imposes new limits on campaign cash and hiring relatives.