Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is launching a debt relief pilot program, which is part of her Fines and Fees Reform Initiative. The program provides a course for Chicagoans who are dealing with debt from administrative hearing violations.

Chicago landlords and employers are now banned from discriminating or retaliating against Chicagoans who seek gender-affirming care or reproductive health care under a measure approved unanimously Wednesday by the Chicago City Council.

Chicago Public Schools officially cut the ribbon on a new school on the Northwest Side Tuesday. The Belmont-Cragin Elementary and Early Childhood Center will serve 500 students. The school, on the 6100-block of West Fullerton Avenue, will offer dual language programs...

A program that would give grants to small businesses looking to revitalize the LaSalle Street corridor passed a critical hurdle last week. The program would direct $5 million in tax-increment finance dollars to jumpstart a Small Business Improvement Fund for...

He added, “The only mayor who fully funded the developments that were stagnated under Emanuel and the new ones that I came up with was Lori Lightfoot. She has been the only one who has talked the talk and walked the walk when it comes to affordable housing.”

Like many of my fellow Chicagoans, I find myself during this time taking stock of the year that was and what lies ahead. While I am certainly thinking about the quality time I’ll be able to spend with my loved ones, I’m also pondering what the next year will hold for...

"Well we had a fabulous summer. We had about a 90% recovery rate in the summer," Osmond said. "The hotels were packed, the streets were full, the attractions were busy. And this fall we're actually doing very well. We'll probably end the year somewhere around 82% of...

Former Mayor Richard J. Daley talked about extending the Red Line South to 130th Street. Mayor Lori Lightfoot can now say she helped deliver the $3.6 billion extension that will finally provide mass transit service to the only part of Chicago without it. With only one...

“I want to actually hear what you think is going to make a difference in this community,” said Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Lightfoot came to his neighborhood to hold a roundtable discussion on the city’s most pressing problem: violent crime.

In a presentation to the City Club of Chicago, Chicago Chief Financial Officer Jennie Huang Bennett declared that, for the first time in awhile, “The city is on a stable financial footing.” And that has allowed it to begin making major investments in programs that...