The U.S. Department of Labor wants to know how much of your money was misspent by the State of Illinois, but the Illinois Department of Employment Security isn’t sharing that information.

Thus, IDES has again been called out by the federal government in a scathing report just released Wednesday afternoon.

It’s out with the old and in with the new for a Chicago man on a mission.

Demolition is underway for a new community center in the Woodlawn neighborhood. It’s the brain-child of Pastor Corey Brooks, who’s been camped out on a rooftop to raise money for it.

As the Chicago Bears appear to be headed for greener pastures outside of the city, one organization is telling the team to build a new stadium without taxpayer assistance.

The team has purchased the former Arlington Racecourse property for a possible new home.

The city’s transit agency is asking for more than $2 billion in federal funding for its Red Line Extension project, which Far South Siders say would relieve a “transportation desert” and boost the local economy if completed equitably.

The Chicago Transit Authority’s $3.6 billion plan to extend the Red Line nearly 6 miles would move its terminal from 95th Street to 130th Street. Stations would be built at 103rd and 111th streets near Eggleston Avenue, at Michigan Avenue near 116th Street and at 130th Street near Altgeld Gardens.