For the first time in nearly a century, swimmers took to the open water of the Chicago River on Sunday. Participants in the Chicago River Swim made their way along a one- or two-mile route downtown.

Joe Walsh is a senior editor for digital politics at CBS News. Joe previously covered breaking news for Forbes and local news in Boston. President Trump suggested Tuesday he's planning to send ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday signed an executive order designed to protect the rights of protesters following actions taken during a recent demonstration outside an ICE facility in the ...

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The mayor emphasized the city's long history of protest. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order Tuesday, directing local police to protect protesters' constitutional rights even if ...

The Trump administration is pushing Chicago Public Schools to abolish its "Black Student Success Plan" and guidelines allowing transgender students to participate in sports and use bathroom facilities ...

She got to the base’s main gate at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, dressed in her Army boots and a red and black dress adorned with embroidered flowers, one of two identical dresses she and her daughter received ...

CHICAGO – Every year, the plumbers' union dyes it green. The Dave Matthews Band once infamously dumped 800 pounds of poop into it. And at least one section became known for the bubbles produced by ...

After weeks of saying Illinois' Gov. J.B. Pritzker would need to ask for help from the National Guard before he would send troops to Chicago, President Donald Trump pivoted Tuesday saying he plans to ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Chicago’s fiscal mess is infamous but now its pension funds teeter on the brink of insolvency.

A Democratic mayor running for Congress in Illinois was teargassed Friday morning during a small protest outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in suburban Chicago, he said.

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