Politics

CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- In their latest round of dueling TV ads, Republican Governor Bruce Rauner and his Democratic Challenger J.B. Pritzker slam each other over taxes and get personal. The Rauner campaign’s new ad resurrects a previous issue involving one of JB Pritzker’s North Side mansions...

First Ward Ald. Proco Joe Moreno allegedly flashed a badge and intimated he was a police officer, during a traffic altercation over the weekend.

CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) – Gov. Bruce Rauner said Tuesday’s he’s against the Trump Administration’s policy of separating some parents from their children when they are caught entering the country illegally. The campaign of his Democratic challenger, J.B. Pritzker, issued a statement demanding...

The Texas Republican senator, who has become a frequent ally of President Donald Trump, initially blasted criticism of the White House crackdown on border-crossing parents with children.

President Donald Trump has directed the U.S. Trade Representative to prepare new tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports as the two nations move closer to a potential trade war.

First lady Melania Trump "hates" to see families separated at the border and hopes "both sides of the aisle" can reform the nation's immigration laws, according to a statement from her office.

President Donald Trump said Friday he did the nation "a great service" by firing James Comey as FBI director and he cited an internal Justice Department report that found Comey was "insubordinate" in his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.

Mayoral challenger Dorothy Brown says Mayor Emanuel’s announcement of high-speed transit project is little more than a diversion from the public schools’ sex abuse scandal.

In the year since House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and others were shot at a congressional baseball practice, mass shootings have occurred at a Texas church, a Las Vegas music festival and high schools in Parkland, Florida, and Santa Fe, Texas.

The survey conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and MTV found that 57 percent of parents and 73 percent of young people ages 15 to 26 disapprove of the president's performance.