The proposed budget is built around controversial proposals such as a new tax on hemp products and an employee head tax.

Gov. JB Pritzker came out in opposition Tuesday to the reinstated $21-per-employee “head tax” on larger businesses that Mayor Johnson proposed to balance the 2026 budget.

Allowing CPD to spend unlimited sums of taxpayer money is a “crazy way to run a city,” said Justin Marlowe, a professor in ...

President Donald Trump has been declaring Chicago "the most dangerous city in the world" for months, but the data doesn't back up those claims, especially when put in context. Mr. Trump said again ...