The Chicago Teachers Union is widely regarded as one of the most powerful teachers’ unions in the country because of massive ...

Gangs and prison often keep Chicago’s youth out of the workforce, but the Chicago Peace Initiative works to change that.

Chicago employment situation improves after hitting lowest level since 2009 in December 2025. Chicago businesses expanded in January for the first time in 25 months, according to the Chicago Business ...

Illinois lawmakers propose a Tier 2 pension expansion that adds costly sweeteners, despite struggling to keep up with current ...

Illinois lawmakers funded a Hispanic chamber of commerce connected to Gov. J.B. Pritzker. Its chief opposes ICE deportations.

Violent crime in Chicago fell to more than a decade low in 2025. It dropped across 88% of the city’s neighborhoods as arrests ...

Illinois placed 38th nationally for social mobility. Its rank was pulled down by economic problems and corruption in its ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced plans to handle Illinois’ pension crisis. Some build on proven reforms while others could delay real progress.

The Illinois Constitution stops politicians from imposing progressive taxation, which would give them power to progressively ...

To get part of $50 billion for a federal health program, Illinois promised to join nurse licensure and physician assistant ...

Illinois’ rushed, closed-door budgeting process funded $700,000 in taxpayer dollars to a research group promoting ...

Chicago’s Roseland community is solving crime and poverty through a formula developed by the Hope Center: mentors, jobs and a ...