John Byrne

Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to build a new open enrollment high school somewhere on the Near West Side, according to a Chicago Public Schools budget proposal released Friday. Schools CEO...

Veteran hip-hoppers Yasiin Bey and Talib Kweli will make $100,000 for headlining the Taste of Chicago with their beloved collaboration Black Star, but they won’t get their usual backstage cookies...

A top Chicago Police Department official on Thursday implored Rev. Michael Pfleger not lead a peace march onto the Dan Ryan Expressway next month, saying hundreds of officers would need...

While many Chicagoans might think pigeon racing is rushing to their bedroom windows at 4:30 a.m. to chase away the birds and their infernal cooing, aldermen have introduced a proposal...

Former Gov. Pat Quinn stood Wednesday before Mayor Rahm Emanuel and aldermen in City Hall to argue for giving Chicago voters the power to limit the mayor and his successors...

Faced with what he said is persistent late-night underage drinking, drug use and fights at a park near the lakefront, a North Side alderman Wednesday called for the overnight closure...

Aldermen on Tuesday advanced three nonbinding questions to appear on Chicago ballots in November, a move that could block former Gov. Pat Quinn from placing a binding referendum before voters...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel will name Southwest Side Ald. Matt O’Shea to take over as chairman of the City Council Aviation Committee, which will oversee the mayor’s massive O’Hare International Airport...