A report from the University of Illinois at Chicago suggests the Chicago City Council has become more of a “rubber stamp” for the mayor than in the previous years.

Visiting governors-elect from across the U.S. also met with Cabinet members as part of a broader White House outreach effort to local officials.

An article in The Atlantic said the Trump White House is reversing course, and refugees from the Vietnam War -- some of whom have been here for decades -- are subject to deportation if they are undocumented.

President Donald Trump is contending he "never directed" longtime lawyer Michael Cohen to break the law. Trump's tweet Thursday comes a day after Cohen was sentenced to prison for crimes including arranging hush money payments to conceal Trump's alleged affairs.

A fiscal watchdog has both concerns and compliments for Mayor Emanuel's proposal for bringing down Chicago's city pension debt.

A city ordinance has been filed that would take control of Chicago’s $100 million Workers Compensation Fund and wrest it away from embattled Finance Committee Chairman Edward Burke.

Michael Cohen, who as President Donald Trump's personal lawyer and fixer once vowed he would "take a bullet" for his boss, was sentenced Wednesday to three in prison for an array of crimes that included arranging the payment of hush money to two women that he says was done at the direction of Trump.

On Wednesday, incumbent Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel outlines his plans to end the city’s pension-funding crisis. Former alderman Bob Fioretti is pushing a commuter tax.

President Donald Trump is scrambling to find a new chief after his first choice to replace John Kelly bailed at the last minute and several other potential successors signaled they weren't interested in the job.

Members of the City Council Progressive Caucus are pushing for an ordinance that tightens requirements for Tax Increment Financing, or TIF, districts. Tax growth collected from the districts typically helps developers with projects meant to help blighted areas.