According to OBM, those adjustments are standard accounting practice and do not need to be specified in ordinance for the ...

City attorneys have said that taking the lawsuits to trial would have cost the city far more — up to $500 million — to resolve the avalanche of wrongful conviction cases tied to former Sgt. Ronald ...

Francisco “Frankie” Benitez would get $18.5 million for two murders he didn't commit but spent 34 years in prison for. Eric Blackmon would get $8 million for a murder he was not guilty of, but spent ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says he has had conversations with Gov. J.B. Pritzker and state legislative leaders about ...

A City Council committee on Monday advanced a $90 million deal to settle nearly 200 police misconduct lawsuits tied to a corrupt former police sergeant accused of framing hundreds of people on drug ...

Conyears-Ervin, who is running to represent Illinois’ 7th Congressional District, had been fined a total of $70,000 by the ...

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Until Mayor Brandon Johnson acknowledges the need for budget cuts, any report — no matter how detailed — will be an exercise ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A historic settlement moves closer to becoming reality as the City's finance committee tries to cut Chicago's losses on some police misconduct cases. Multi-million dollar lawsuit ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are on the ground in the Chicago area, and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker says he doesn’t think the city has seen the full force of ...

CHICAGO — President Donald Trump again vowed to deploy the National Guard to Chicago “against” the opposition of Gov. JB Pritzker, prompting the Democratic governor on Tuesday to label the president’s ...

It turns out that — as difficult as it is to believe — J.B.'s "terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day" was even worse than originally thought. J.B., of course, is Gov. J.B. Pritzker, and his really ...