Politics

Forget the butter cow. Reporters showing up for the first day of the Illinois State Fair wanted to know what Gov. J.B. Pritkzer thought about the possibility of one of his predecessors being released early from prison with a commutation from President Trump.

Mayor Lightfoot said in her statement announcing Maurice Cox’s nomination as Chicago’s commissioner of Planning and Development that his experience in Detroit makes him uniquely qualified to lead efforts in Chicago.

Blagojevich is in the middle of serving a 14-year prison sentence for political corruption.

In one of two tweets, Ivanka Trump, a White House aide to President Trump, reminds people to “not overlook that Chicago experienced its deadliest weekend of the year."

( AP ) — The FBI is opening a domestic terrorism investigation into the shooting that killed three people, including two children, at a popular California food festival, a law enforcement official said Tuesday. Nineteen-year-old gunman Santino William Legan fatally shot three people with a Romanian...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaking out against weekend mass shootings that rocked a nation, President Donald Trump called for bipartisan solutions to the bloodshed but offered few details and faced pointed questions from Democrats about whether he had the moral authority to rally America against the spasm...

After two mass shootings that killed 31 people in Texas and Ohio, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Monday that he'd push for a federal buyback program to encourage Americans to give up their military-style weapons and ammunition. The former vice president said in an interview with...

“What he’s been doing is blowing every racist, xenophobic dog whistle,” the Chicago mayor said Monday, after two mass shootings across the U.S. “When you do that, when you blow that kind of dog whistle, animals come out.”

( KNX ) - President Donald Trump is ordering flags at half-staff in remembrance of the victims of two mass shootings in less than a day that killed at least 29 people and injured dozens more. A proclamation released by the White House on Sunday says the nation shares "in the pain and suffering of...

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidates sought to lay blame Sunday on President Donald Trump following a pair of mass shootings in Ohio and Texas, saying his language against minorities promotes racial division and violence. At public events and on television, several candidates...