This is one in a series of stories looking at candidates for mayor of Aurora in the Feb. 25 primary election. John Laesch, currently an alderman at-large on the Aurora City Council, is running for ...

Richard Irvin, who has been the mayor of Aurora since 2017 and is the city’s first African American mayor, is once again running for four more years in office.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is planning to endorse a statewide ban on cellular devices in public schools. Martin Torres is the Democrat's deputy governor for education.

The season-scrambling Floridian takes passengers direct from the snows of Illinois to Florida’s palm-lined beaches ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson is preparing for his upcoming showdown with a congressional committee investigating sanctuary cities. He is also counting on state help to deal with some pressing needs in ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson announced his final appointment to the Chicago Board of Education Tuesday, completing the city's first-ever hybrid school board.

The City Council is scheduled to take a final vote on the general obligation bond issue at Wednesday’s meeting, but any two alderpersons can use a parliamentary maneuver to postpone the final vote.

Hispanic leaders in Chicago want business owners living in the U.S. without legal permission to be prepared in case of deportations. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watch The ...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker will deliver his annual State of the State address on Wednesday, and he’ll have to address a ...

Project,” named after the United Center’s postal address on West Madison Street, would add housing, retail, entertainment ...

Voters will decide whether Rockingham or Smith will receive the Democratic nomination for mayor when they go to the polls Tuesday to select who will join independents David E. Hood and Ald.

In 2024, the U.S. saw the largest spike in homelessness since the federal government began regularly collecting data in 2007.