With 40 days until the election, Illinois residents can vote early at their local county clerks’ office. Vote-by-mail ballots ...

Years of exorbitant political spending in Illinois – more than $24.3 million since 2010 – has secured an enormous amount of ...

The Chicago Teachers Union is backing various candidates for Chicago Board of Education. CTU has donated more than $175,000 ...

Chicago led the state in mass layoffs, accounting for more than one-third of job cuts in August. The statewide data shows 93% ...

This episode of The Policy Shop is by writer Patrick Andriesen Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s campaign pledge to end the ShotSpotter gunshot detection system has come to fruition. The city’s contract ...

Where is support strongest for the gunshot detection system Chicago’s mayor wants to dump? In the Black and Hispanic wards ...

Illinois government workers’ union dues fund Democratic Party campaign committees, which are now seeking to tip the ...

The Fed just cut interest rates over worries about the national jobs outlook, but in Illinois unemployment has been a ...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed over 275 bills into law recently. Here is what you need to know about changes to taxes, ...

I would say at a high level, our policymakers have been too focused on affordable housing, and not housing affordability.

Registering to vote in Illinois can be confusing. Here is what you need to know to make sure your voice is heard this ...

Sept. 18 marks Illinois’ first anniversary of being the first state to end cash bail. The predicted disaster was averted.