Mayoral candidates Matt Brewer and Susana Mendoza, and at least eight school board candidates, called for an independent investigation last week: Michelle Pierre (1B), Kyna Lenhof (2B), Pete Gonzales ...
The district’s sitting inspector general lacks independence from the interests supporting Dominguez for school board ...
City Council voted last week to implement a modest new limit on borrowing. The mayor and his allies are attacking it.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will officially announce his re-election bid this afternoon following the Chicago Bears’ season opener. But when it comes to fighting corruption in city government, the ...
You can read it here. Below are three thoughts in response, and two things you can do about it. This lawsuit is an obvious attempt to silence valid criticism and dissent. I stand behind my reporting ...
For decades, Springfield insiders told the same joke about House Speaker Mike Madigan. “There’s only two ways he’ll leave office: In handcuffs or a casket.” Indeed, Madigan held the speakership for 36 ...
The Chicago Board of Education this week voted to pass a budget the district’s own CEO and CFO said was unbalanced. The roll call offers a clue. Of the eight members who voted against the budget or ...
Chicago City Council last week finalized six questions that will appear before Chicago voters. Compare that political food fight to what New York City voters will decide on their ballots this November ...
Frederick Douglass learned to read in secret. He understood from a young age that literacy was, in his words, “the pathway from slavery to freedom.” But at Frederick Douglass Academy High School in ...
A Juneteenth celebration in Roseland ended in a mass drive-by shooting that left at least 14 people wounded. It was the most horrifying moment in a stretch of violence that has pushed Chicago’s 2026 ...
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