Bill Ruthhart

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and a group of suburban leaders on Tuesday called for a 20 to 30 cent per gallon increase in the state’s gas tax to fund a major...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday will call for state lawmakers to legalize marijuana, allow a Chicago casino and approve a state constitutional amendment to help the city address a looming...

State Comptroller Susana Mendoza’s Chicago mayoral campaign reported receiving $165,000 in contributions Monday, including a $100,000 check from an owner of a controversial, clout-heavy scrap yard, state campaign finance records...

No one represents Chicago’s old-school machine politics — or what’s left of it — more than City Hall’s longest-serving and most powerful alderman, Ed Burke. But in the wake of...

Federal agents swarmed Ald. Ed Burke’s City Hall and ward offices Thursday morning, kicking out employees and hours later hauling boxes of records and computers from rooms that for decades...