Tom Tunney

An influential alderman has thrown a wrench into Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan to renovate Wrigley Field to generate more revenue without leaving the city...

Story by Kate Sosin, courtesy of the Windy City Times: According to the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH), prevalence of smoking, lack of ...

A Roman Catholic church on Chicago's North Side has reached out to its parishioners hoping they will help pressure the city into rescheduling or rerou...

A political brawl is in brewing between two high-profile lesbian human rights activists for an Illinois state House seat, a clash which has drawn in Chicago's newly minted mayor and the state's powerful House Speaker.

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...

Negligent shovelers will earn more than ice sheets and dirty looks from passersby if one Chicago alderman gets his way. During a demonstration of m...

By Kate Sosin, courtesy of the Windy City Times Responding to a steep jump in attendance and chaos at last year's Pride Parade, parade officials an...

With more than 100,000 visitors expected to converge onto Chicago's East Lakeview, or Boystown, neighborhood this weekend for the 30th annual Northals...

UPDATE: The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that Hayes was ordered held in lieu of a $700,000 bail Friday. He is reportedly cooperating with police...

Story by Kate Sosin, courtesy of the Windy City Times In the midst of a community uproar over violent crime in Lakeview, the much-anticipated July ...

The long, hot holiday weekend had deadly consequences for several throughout the city of Chicago, but nowhere has violence gone more viral than in the...

Early Saturday morning, police were called to the 7-Eleven in the East Lakeview neighborhood, where a man had been stabbed multiple times during an al...

According to the recent food truck story from the Sun-Times, 44th ward Alderman Tom Tunney has some specific concerns over the possibility of food tru...

In most cities in the country, from New York to Seattle to humble Carrboro, North Carolina, the food truck craze is in full swing. But here in Chicago...

Chicago Inspector General Joe Ferguson sounded the alarm Thursday in a new report detailing "widespread fraud, abuse and mismanagement" in the city mi...

Rahm Emanuel's feet could soon be put to the fire on a major campaign promise, thanks to an ordinance proposed in the City Council to eliminate Chicag...

The Rev. Sen. James Meeks continued his hot and cold relationship with Chicago's gay community on Wednesday, making an appearance at Ann Sather, an ic...

On Tuesday, the City Council's Health Committee approved a Tunney-sponsored resolution calling for the reversal of an antiquated federal policy that d...

Over the objections of local Ald. Tom Tunney (44th) the Cubs got the go-ahead to put up an illuminated Toyota sign rising nearly 60 feet above the Wav...

Ald. Tom Tunney, whose ward includes the Friendly Confines, is taking another swing at moving peddlers away from it. Last summer, he struck out trying...

It seems that everyone wants to be Chicago's mayor--but only if Mayor Daley decides not to run. This time, it's openly gay 44th Ward Alderman Tom Tunn...

Plans for a massive shopping, hotel and housing development near Wrigley Field cleared another hurdle Thursday as the City Council Zoning Committee ga...

As the Cubs played their first home game of the 2010 season, fans gathered in and around the ballpark to stock up on merchandise. Unfortunately, the r...

An illuminated Toyota sign rising 40 feet above the Wrigley Field bleachers could be in place by mid-June, thanks to a sign permit approved today in e...