Members of Mayor Emanuel's newly appointed TIF panel will soon roll up their sleeves to start rebuilding city policy on TIFs. This is a welcome development.

For too long, TIFs were used as corporate subsidies. We have far too much at stake in our city to allow TIF money to be poorly used or misused.

CHICAGO — Mayor Richard M. Daley, who wielded more control over Chicago than anyone but his father decades before, said Tuesday he will not seek...

As Americans, we are proud of the strides we have made over time to extend the voting franchise to all citizens, however halting these steps may have been.

Cook County Cook County Board President Todd Stroger wielded his veto stamp Monday on a measure to freeze hiring and salaries until he leaves office N...

UPDATE: The Lobbyist Sunshine Initiative passed the finance committee unanimously on Thursday. It goes to a full vote at the Board's Oct. 6 meeting. ...

Cook County lobbyists would have to disclose new clients within two days of landing them under new ethics rules proposed Monday by county Clerk David ...

Cook County Clerk David Orr says residents shouldn't be fooled into collecting signatures for candidates promising them a job down the line....

A suburban Chicago man barred from running for elective office because he's homeless has filed an appeal of the decision to keep him off the ballot. ...

SCROLL DOWN FOR THE LATEST UPDATES Barely a month after being sworn in as a U.S. Senator, Roland Burris is being called on to resign by the Chicago T...

A planned special election to fill the congressional seat left vacant by President-elect Barack Obama's new chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, has hit a sn...

The city of Chicago could save money by transferring its election board's responsibilties to Cook County. Mayor Richard Daley says he's open to the id...

Election officials counting ballots throughout Illinois say the state has set a new record of more than 821,000 early votes cast. Authorities say th...

On the last day of early voting, officials are reporting that more than 400,000 people in the city and suburban Cook County have already turned out to...

Illinois voters who don't make it to the polls for early voting on Thursday will have to wait until Election Day to cast their ballots. As CBS 2's J...

Cook County Clerk David Orr's annual TIF report is due out tomorrow, and the news is all bleak. On the one hand, the city's tax increment financing d...

More than 544,000 people have voted early in the Chicago area, the Tribune reports: By the time early voting is over Thursday, 697,000 people are e...

CHICAGO (STNG) -- Chicago and suburban Cook County broke their respective single-day Early Voting records Monday, according to the Cook County Board ...