Gov J.B. Pritzker and Illinois’ other elected Democratic leaders on Thursday introduced the SC2 initiative, which looks to stop gun violence in the city of Chicago.

The initiative comes after two teenagers were shot and killed over the weekend in the heart of the city. According to Chicago police statistics, shootings are up 14% in the city over the last four years.

Oak Park is getting nearly $2 million more to aid the groups of asylum seekers currently being housed in the west suburb, and plans to spend the bulk of it to run a new shelter that will put the migrants under one roof instead having the current multi-site setup.

According to a village news release Friday, the village was notified that day it had been awarded a Supporting Municipalities for Asylum Seeker Services grant through the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus. Oak Park applied for the funds Jan. 24.

Mayor Brandon Johnson has told the Illinois Senate president he would like to see 10 school board seats up for election this November, a decision that could help reignite stalled Springfield negotiations .

Some of the most critical details of the city’s first-ever school board elections remain up in the air just nine months from Election Day, including exactly how many board members voters will elect in the fall.

The Chicago Police Department would be required to immediately launch a new study of whether officers are efficiently and effectively deployed across the city to stop crime and respond to calls for help, under a measure set to be considered by a key City Council committee on Monday.

Authored by Ald. Matt Martin (47th Ward), a close ally of Mayor Brandon Johnson, the ordinance set for a vote by the City Council’s Police and Fire Committee asks Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling to make good on a promise he made shortly after becoming Chicago’s top cop and hire an outside organization to study how officers are deployed, where they are assigned to work and whether that makes sense.

After months of seeming like a near-certainty that the Chicago Bears would move north to Arlington Heights, a report from Crain’s Chicago Business on Friday indicated that the team was shifting their focus back to the city.

The tumultuous fiasco that has gone on for nearly three years has seen the team buy the property at Arlington Park, oversee the demolition of the nearly century-old horse race track and face steep differences with local officials on the valuation of the property.

An Illinois lawmaker wants to put an end to the flood of lawsuits against businesses as the result of the state’s strict biometric law.

State Sen. Bill Cunningham, D-Chicago, has filed Senate Bill 2979 which would make changes to the liability guidelines in the Biometric Information Privacy Act.

Despite bright spots including the Federal Aviation Administration’s relocation and Culligan’s expansion in Rosemont, the market for suburban office space continued to soften during the last months of 2023, new data shows.

The FAA will move to 108,000 square feet in the O’Hare Gateway Office Center in Rosemont, while Culligan is adding 66,000 square feet at Riverway West, according to Chicago-based Savills’ fourth quarter market report.

A Chicago Public Schools elementary school principal says the president of the Chicago Teachers Union told teachers to “punch their principal in the face” last week at a union meeting on the Near West Side, according to a Chicago police report.

The comments were made at about 12:40 p.m. Jan. 25 at CTU headquarters, 1901 W. Carroll Ave., according to the report.