Updated story One of the mainstays of the Chicago City Council is reportedly preparing to retire -- and is planning to appoint his daughter to fill...

Ward remapping has the ability to gently transform communities or further push them farther behind. It is no wonder it's January and the city council has just now gotten around to passing a remap plan that can garner enough votes.

The Chicago City Council has tended to suffer from a rather poor reputation. With that in mind, it seems appropriate for Chicagoans to put forth a modest proposal for reforming our city government.

Illinois State Representative Deb Mell recently married longtime partner Christin Baker in a quiet wedding ceremony performed by a judge in Davenport,...

It was a sight as familiar as the snow itself to any veteran of Chicago winters: the carefully dug-out parking spaces after the massive blizzard, occu...

As the gay marriage debate continues across the country, the gay community in Illinois has yet to see much progress on the issue--and one state repres...

Foreclosed and abandoned Chicago buildings are "the same type of disaster as the BP oil slick" in Louisiana, a Northwest Side alderman said today, dem...

Ald. Ray Suarez (31st Ward) and State Sen. Iris Martinez (D-Chicago) called a joint meeting in Chicago on Monday to pressure the banks to do a better ...

Updated The fierce intra-party feuding between Gov. Pat Quinn and Comptroller Dan Hynes reached a new pitch Friday after Quinn announced his latest s...

Mayor Richard Daley said today he is opposed to the idea floated by two aldermen to put a land-based casino where the city had hoped to build an Olymp...

Two alderman are floating the idea of putting a casino and theater complex where Chicago had hoped to build an Olympic Village for the 2016 Summer Gam...

It turns out there may yet be a new Cook County commissioner in time for a key vote next Tuesday on rolling back the sales tax increase supported by b...

Mayor Richard Daley and officials with Wal-Mart appeared at a green jobs news conference today, so it was inevitable that talk would turn to Wal-Mart'...

Standing in the governor's office, toe to toe with Blagojevich, Jesse White fumed, "Governor, for whatever you think of [former governor] George Ryan... I've known him for thirty years. He never lied to me once. You've lied to me 15 times in six months."

CHICAGO (AP) -- Former Illinois first lady Patti Blagojevich says she's getting ready for her stint on reality TV by doing yoga and cooking meals for ...

We have a long track record of political disasters in this state, and the folks on the inside need to be taught that the people of Illinois have had enough. We don't need more promises of reform.

It was widely known that former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's father-in-law, Ald. Richard Mell (33rd), was supporting wealthy businessman Blair Hull in the U...

Contrary to public statements he's made, Rod Blagojevich contemplated resigning as governor shortly before the Illinois Senate voted to boot him from ...

Barack Obama's message of hope and change has been shouted down in Illinois by the horror of a craven governor, by the egotistical opportunism of our ...

On the cusp of being sworn in as the junior senator from Illinois, Roland Burris spent nearly an hour soaking in accolades at City Hall Tuesday. The ...

Illinois First Lady Patti Blagojevich attempted to placate neighbors upset over the media invasion that has followed Gov. Blagojevich's arrest on fede...

Lady Macbeth. Carmela Soprano. Potty mouth. Patti Blagojevich is not any of those, her family said Wednesday. "That is absolutely not my sister," De...

At the risk of sounding like Freud, none of this would have happened had Governor Blagojevich not lost sight of who he was or where he came from or, m...

Early on the January morning on which Rod Blagojevich was first sworn in as the 40th governor of Illinois, his father-in-law, the powerful Northwest S...