Chicago’s outgoing Democrat mayor, Rahm Emanuel, says the way to defuse the Windy City’s pension bomb is to legalize and tax marijuana and build a city-owned casino.

A volunteer for Chicago City Council candidate Joseph Williams was shot while videoing himself interacting with potential voters.

A political campaign volunteer was shot on Chicago’s South Side while broadcasting on Facebook Live as he distributed pamphlets to residents of West Englewood.

Student gun control activist David Hogg is pushing for a federal tax on guns and bullets.

An Illinois state Democrat lawmaker is in hot water after she made a comment wishing she would mix a “broth of Legionella” to infect a Republican colleague’s “loved one.”

A near-record November snowstorm blanketed the Chicago-area with 13 inches of snow in the last 24 hours, prompting morning commute delays, wide-spread power outages, and hundreds of flights being canceled. 

The gunman who allegedly killed three at Chicago’s Mercy Hospital is identified as 32-year-old Juan Lopez.

Shots were fired Monday near Chicago’s Mercy Hospital in what could be an active shooter situation, according to emerging reports.

After three hours, all occupants escaped an 875 North Michigan Avenue elevator car without hospitalization on Friday.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) tweeted Sunday to claim no one is immune from gun violence and it is time for Congress to pass more gun laws.

Former First Lady Michelle Obama told Oprah Winfrey she cried for 30 minutes after President Trump’s inauguration.

Police in the Chicago suburb of Midlothian allegedly shot and killed a security guard who had stopped a bar shooting and was holding a suspect at gunpoint.

A trio of Chicago residents notified police of anti-semitic chalk markings discovered on their properties since Friday, according to reports. One resident from the city’s Uptown neighborhood told law enforcement that they witnessed a man on Friday afternoon defacing a pillar outside his home located in the 800 block

Former Republican congressman Duncan L. Hunter, the father of Rep. Duncan D. Hunter (R-CA), told reporters at the U.S.S. Midway in San Diego on Tuesday that his son’s opponent, Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar, would be a “security risk” to the country if elected to Congress.

“A liberal will try to control a black person through the concept of racism because they know that we are very proud emotional people,” West said. “You think racism can control me? That don’t stop me, that’s an invisible wall.”

President Trump urged the Chicago police on Monday to implement a “stop and frisk” policy to curb the shootings caused by gun violence in the city.

On Friday afternoon, a Cook County jury pronounced Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of teenager LaQuan McDonald.

TEL AVIV – The killing of a 24-year-old Jewish man in Chicago’s West Roger’s Park neighborhood is the second murder in as many days and has rocked the local Jewish community. 

Police arrested a Chinese national living in Chicago on Tuesday for allegedly spying on U.S. engineers, scientists, and defense contractors on behalf of Beijing, federal prosecutors announced.

A Catholic priest in Chicago says he burned a rainbow LGBTQ flag in a private “exorcism ceremony,” calling the flag a piece of “propaganda.”

A six-month-old boy and three others were shot last night while sitting inside a car in the South Loop neighborhood of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago.

Nearly half of residents in America’s top five largest cities speak a foreign language at home, a new study by the Center for Immigration Studies reveals. 

The now outgoing Rahm Emanuel administration is touting a deal to give away about 20 acres of historic Jackson Park to the controversial “Obama Center” for the tiny payment of $10 for a 99-year lease.

A report finds that several “financially-strapped” Chicago pension funds invested $68 million in a “shaky” real estate deal brokered by a man associated with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and Barack Obama that ultimately resulted in a $54 million loss.

A concealed carry permit holder in Cicero, Illinois, intervened Thursday afternoon and shot at a suspect who allegedly shot a police officer.

“Chicago is better and stronger for his leadership,” Obama wrote in a statement emailed to reporters, praising Rahm Emanuel’s service as his first White House Chief of Staff, as a congressman, and as the Mayor of Chicago. 

Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) ended his aspirations for a third term as the number of shot and wounded in Chicago continues to rise.

At least 25 individuals were shot and wounded, another six were killed, over Labor Day Weekend in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s (D) Chicago.

A group of activists led by a Chicago minister plan to shut down the primary highway leading to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on Labor Day.

The University of Illinois system — which has endured more than a decade of corruption scandals — announced Thursday that it will present former President Barack Obama with an “ethics in government” award at a Sep. 7 ceremony.