Politics

Mayor Lightfoot said she’s aware of the documentary out now called “Cooked” that chronicles the horrifying Chicago heatwave of 1995, when more than 700 people died.

Senator Durbin discussed Monday the Affordable Insulin Approvals Now Act, a bipartisan bill to speed up approvals of lower-cost, generic, and “follow-on” insulin products in order to help lower costs of the life-saving drug.

President Trump said last year that he was considering commuting the sentence of disgraced former Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Jackson urges Trump to grant a full pardon.

The Cook County State's Attorney's office has created a position to specifically deal with defendants who are not U.S. citizens.

Ryan decided to leave Washington, as relayed in a new book, "American Carnage," by Tim Alberta, rather than endure two more years of the Trump presidency.

Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta said Friday he is resigning following renewed scrutiny of his handling of a 2008 secret plea deal with wealthy financier Jeffrey Esptein, who is accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls.

Aldermen have given their preliminary approval for fines as high as $10,000 for drivers who engage in “Fast and Furious”-style drag racing and “drifting” in Chicago.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump abandoned his controversial bid to inject a citizenship question into next year's census Thursday, instead directing federal agencies to try to compile the information using existing databases. He insisted he was "not backing down," declaring in a Rose...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and the issue of adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census (all times local): 5:45 p.m. President Donald Trump is abandoning his effort to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census. Instead, Trump says he's ordering every federal...

( 1080 KRLD ) - Texas businessman H. Ross Perot has died at the age of 89, a family spokesman has confirmed. Perot was an American business magnate, billionaire, philanthropist, and former politician. Born in Texarkana, Texas, he became a salesman for IBM after serving in the United States Navy. In...