Chicago Budget

Chicago's failure to repair a crumbling downtown viaduct -- despite a "task order" generated by a call to 311 -- will cost taxpayers $450,000. The ...

Updated story As the city prepared to close three more mental health clinics Monday, Chicago mental health advocates protested outside Mayor Rahm E...

As Chicago's Mental Health Movement continues to speak out against the city's decision to close six mental health clinics, those in the city for the W...

Protesters fighting to keep a mental health clinic on Chicago's South Side open threatened early Tuesday to bring their battle to Mayor Rahm Emanuel's...

Chicago Public Schools once again faces big budget woes -- this time a projected $700 million shortfall in 2013. The board met Wednesday morning to...

Do you owe the city of Chicago some money for an overdue parking ticket or other fines? Under a proposal approved Tuesday by the City Council Budget C...

The woman at the helm of the Chicago Public Library system for the past 18 years has resigned from her post in the midst of ongoing disputes over staf...

CHICAGO -- On Tuesday morning, a group of about 50 protesters gathered at the Board of Trade -- home of the CME Group -- to deliver a "golden toilet" ...

The Chicago Mental Health Movement released a report Thursday outlining the long-term costs of Mayor Emanuel's proposed cuts and condemning the closur...

The labor union representing city librarians balked at a suggestion made by two powerful Chicago aldermen this week that they should forego their cont...

When the Chicago Public Library announced via Facebook that nearly all branches would be closed Monday, it raised a few eyebrows. After all, there was...

The Chicago Public Library announced via its Facebook page Wednesday that, apparently effective immediately, all of its branch locations, save two plu...

When local governments are broke, motorists should hide their wallets. Car owners always seem to be the fall guys when local governments can't balance...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Monday that the city has exceeded its already lofty goal to save the Chicago taxpayers $75 million by the year's end. ...

A measure pinning a new $3,000 fine on individuals caught with guns within 500 feet of Chicago schools and parks was approved last week by a City Coun...

It is becoming clearer and clearer that Chicago has a great need for the success of CJP's Citizen Open Data Access Project and the greatly increased a...

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Thursday lashed out against a leaked report that renovations to the city's Soldier Field and U.S. Cellular Field could c...

CHICAGO — Seven vinyl banners draped this month along one of Chicago's most iconic bridges, advertisements some have dubbed "a visual crime" and...

Why don't the handicapped have to pay to to park at parking meters? I've wondered this for years. Illinois law has allowed motorists with handic...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the aldermen who voted to approve his 2012 budget plan--in other words, all of them--keep telling us that a new day has dawned ...

From the very beginning this budget process has been transparent, inclusive and reasonable and the mayor deserves a lot of credit for doing the majority of what he said he would during the campaign.

CHICAGO -- (AP) A sit-in outside Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office to try to stop health care cuts ended Tuesday night after several hours. Prote...

All summer long, in press conferences and at public hearings, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's budget refrain remained the same: no more accounting gimmicks and n...

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is expected on Wednesday to introduce another new revenue stream for the city: selling advertising space on the city's park...

Though Mayor Rahm Emanuel bowed slightly to various criticisms of his proposed budget last week as he restored some funding to the city's libraries an...