Julie Smolyansky, CEO of Lifeway Foods, a $200 million brand promoting gut health, has learned to trust her own gut in the face of challenges including a family power struggle and a takeover attempt ...

The lack of a contract between the city of Chicago and Commonwealth Edison inked in the 21st century has tied the city’s ...

What’s publicly known about federal efforts related to the now former speaker’s political operation stretches back to at least May 2019.

Macquline King, the senior director of educational policy in the mayor’s office, will take over as interim CEO as the school ...

Amid the waning hours of its spring legislative session, the Illinois General Assembly passed a bill which, if the governor ...

Henyard, 41, who served as the mayor of Dolton until she was defeated in a landslide election in January , is accused of ...

Henyard was also defeated by Illinois state Sen. Napoleon Harris in her attempt ... village trustees voted to hire former ...

Two years ago, Chicago voters dumped their unpopular incumbent mayor, Lori Lightfoot, a standard-issue Democratic progressive, and replaced her with Brandon Johnson, who is, if anything, an even ...

Dick Simpson, a former alderman, author and professor emeritus of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, endorsed Lightfoot in 2019 and is backing her again this year.

Lightfoot was hired last year to look into ... Madigan’s defense team has resumed closing arguments at the former Illinois House speaker’s corruption trial in Chicago. Madigan attorney Dan ...

A community packed a special village meeting to hear firsthand what Lightfoot uncovered. The crowd gasped when the revelations were announced—and many were left furious, and further questioning ...

Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot left residents dumbfounded after revealing the preliminary findings of an investigation into the alleged egregious misuse of funds by Dolton, Illinois Mayor ...