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A passenger looks at two masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who stand just inside a passenger exit area in Terminal 1 at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on March 23, 2026. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

ICE agents deployed to O’Hare as TSA goes without pay amid partial shutdown

March 23, 2026 at 5:33 p.m.

At O'Hare, travelers have not seen significant delays, and security lines were not long and moving at a normal pace on Monday morning.

Dozens of rolls of “I voted” stickers on March 12, 2026, at the Cook County Clerk’s Election Operation Center in Cicero, where thousands of pieces of voting equipment are stored, tested and distributed. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

AIPAC funded secretive super PACs that hid contributors and spent big in Democratic primary, new records show

March 23, 2026 at 2:07 p.m.

Federal Election Commission filings released Friday night reveal that United Democracy Project, AIPAC’s affiliated super PAC, directed more than $5.3 million to bankroll the groups Elect Chicago Women and Affordable...

Kenya Merritt, interim head of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, talks at the Office of Emergency Management and Communications on Dec. 29, 2025. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s cultural affairs pick sued by former employee

March 20, 2026 at 4:19 p.m.

Former first deputy DCASE commissioner Rosalyn Kimberly Grigsby is suing the city and Kenya Merritt under the Illinois Whistleblower Act.

Garien Gatewood, left, the deputy mayor for community safety, speaks as Mayor Brandon Johnson looks on at City Hall on May 27, 2025. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Mayor Brandon Johnson fires community safety chief

March 19, 2026 at 5:13 p.m.

Garien Gatewood, Johnson’s deputy mayor for community safety, had served in the administration since the mayor took office.

Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss speaks to supporters after celebrating the Democratic nomination in the 9th Congressional District race during an election night watch party at Double Clutch Brewing on March 17, 2026, in Evanston. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

More than $30M in outside spending shaped Illinois primaries, but wins were a split for big-monied interests

March 19, 2026 at 5:27 p.m.

Political action committees with unlimited raising and spending power poured nearly $33 million into a handful of closely watched Chicago-area races, but despite the scale of that spending, victories were...

Raeghn Draper, a bartender at Avondale’s Consignment Lounge and a One Fair Wage organizer, speaks at a rally at Chicago City Hall on March 18, 2026. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Mayor Brandon Johnson poised to veto freeze to tipped worker pay passed by aldermen

March 18, 2026 at 6:10 p.m.

Restaurant industry groups are leading the effort to halt the gradual raises approved by the City Council in 2023 with the so-called “One Fair Wage” ordinance

Donna Miller walks into her election night event as the Democratic nominee for the 2nd Congressional District on March 17, 2026, in Chicago Heights. (Vincent D. Johnson/for the baiduhai)

Cook County Commissioner Donna Miller wins Illinois’ 2nd District over comeback effort by former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.

March 18, 2026 at 4:42 p.m.

Cook County Commissioner Donna Miller won the Democratic primary in Illinois' 2nd Congressional District Tuesday as voters rejected a comeback effort by former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.

Bronzeville Winery owner Eric Williams on March 13, 2026, in Chicago. “The reality is you are going to destroy restaurants in the city. The ones who (employ) black employees,” Williams wrote of One Fair Wage. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

City Council poised to vote on restoring Chicago’s subminimum wage for tipped workers

March 16, 2026 at 5:16 p.m.

An ordinance to restore Chicago’s subminimum wage for tipped workers is headed for a vote on Wednesday, potentially setting up Mayor Brandon Johnson’s signature policy win for City Council’s next...

Election judge Beverly, right, helps voter Bobbie Townsend at Dr. Martin Luther King Community Service Center in the Grand Boulevard neighborhood of Chicago on March 2, 2026, during the early voting period. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Unprecedented $62 million shapes Chicago-area congressional primaries, some decry ‘highest bidder’ politics

March 13, 2026 at 6:01 p.m.

The four most competitive Democratic congressional primaries in Illinois has witnessed a massive influx of cash from direct campaign contributions and outside political action committee spending.

Kimberlyn Myers, daughter of Stacy Vaughn-Harrell, is emotional at the City Council Finance Committee meeting on March 13, 2026, as the city's Law Department lawyers recommended a $27 million settlement in the death of Vaughn-Harrell, killed in a 2017 high-speed police chase. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Aldermen advance $27 million settlement for woman killed in Chicago police chase

March 13, 2026 at 5:51 p.m.

The money would go to the family of Stacy Vaughn-Harrell, who was killed in 2017 when a driver speeding while fleeing police rammed into her in Hyde Park.

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