Expert Austin Berg warns Chicago's 'pay later' debt culture under Mayor Brandon Johnson is alarming markets, with a $1B budget gap and risky bond deals.

Chicago’s city council froze the tipped minimum wage at 76% of the city’s overall wage, following industry opposition to the ...

Chicago’s City Council voted to permanently halt the 2028 phase-out of a lower minimum wage for tipped workers ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 7, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important ...

After the Great Fire in 1871, Chicago’s mayor declared martial law. The military occupation ended days later, after the death of a civilian.

Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson has apparently dropped plans to set up “democracy zones” around polling places where ...

Even in the face of bad market conditions, Chicago last week had to issue $500 million-plus in bonds. The cost to taxpayers was predictably high.

Mayor Brandon Johnson's long-standing push to tax major corporations and wealthy Chicagoans to bolster school funding has foundered, and he now says it’s time to push the envelope by turning talk into ...