Indicted ex-aide worked for Emanuel 10 months after FBI interview

Former Chicago Comptroller Amer Ahmad kept working for Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration for more than 10 months after a meeting...

Quinn signs statewide cell phone driving ban

Illinois drivers will have to peel the cell phones away from their ears under legislation Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law Friday that bans...

Cook County Democrats endorse Quinn over Daley

Cook County’s top Democrats overwhelmingly endorsed incumbent Gov. Pat Quinn for re-election Friday in a repudiation of the primary...

Former Chicago comptroller indicted in Ohio

When Amer Ahmad abruptly resigned as city comptroller about three weeks ago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel heaped praise on his hand-picked aide for...

Republican governor candidates make pitches at State Fair

SPRINGFIELD -- Out-of-power Republicans rolled out four candidates for governor at an Illinois State Fair rally Thursday that focused on...

Quinn appoints panel to review Metra oversight

Gov. Pat Quinn has appointed a 15-member commission to review oversight at the Regional Transportation Authority and ...

Preckwinkle calls for Metra board member to resign

Metra board member Stanley Rakestraw has been asked to resign, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle's office said late Wednesday,...

Quinn, Daley spar at Democratic breakfast

SPRINGFIELD — The two Democrats running for governor squared off for the first time Wednesday, with challenger Bill Daley contending...

Quinn blocks attempt to cut free days at museums

SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn on Tuesday vetoed an attempt to cut in half the number of days each year that people could get into...

Quinn CTA appointee drops out after Daley criticism

Gov. Pat Quinn's contentious choice for the CTA board resigned Tuesday, a casualty of party politics on the eve of a Democratic gathering...

First speed cameras coming to four city parks this month

Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s new speed cameras will begin issuing their first warning tickets to Chicago motorists this month near four city...

Quinn cancels Democratic rally at State Fair

SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn is tossing aside the decades-old tradition of Democrats throwing a political rally at the Illinois...

Obama pal says he's cooperating with feds in grant scam case

Dr. Eric Whitaker, a close friend of President Barack Obama, acknowledged that he is cooperating with federal authorities working on a $433,...

Former top aide to Obama pal Whitaker indicted in state grant kickback scheme

A onetime top aide to former state public health director Dr. Eric Whitaker was indicted Wednesday in what federal authorities said was a...

Speaker Madigan: Daughter knew I wasn't going to retire

When Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan publicly pulled the plug on a run for governor, she announced that she "never planned to run"...

Emanuel doesn't address CPS neighborhood school cuts

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday defended the choices he has made on the Chicago Public Schools budget, but did not directly address reports...

State lawmakers to miss at least one more paycheck

Gov. Pat Quinn, in full re-election mode, took the unusual step of showing up in court today for the first hearing in lawmakers' effort to...

First hearing today in state lawmaker paycheck case

House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton stepped up their effort Monday to persuade a judge to pay all 177...

Three new teen driving bills signed into law

Gov. Pat Quinn signed three road safety bills into law Monday, including two that aim to make it tougher for some teenage drivers to earn...

Quinn vague on details of panel to look at RTA oversight of Metra

Gov. Pat Quinn on Monday accused the Regional Transportation Authority of failing to properly oversee operations at Metra, saying he will...

Chicago's 'unicorn': new red Divvy bicycle

Mayor Rahm Emanuel hopped on the city’s shiny, new “unicorn” Thursday and briefly pedaled around a Near West Side park for...

Cubs in line for property tax break on Wrigley Field work

If the Wrigley Field renovation is completed as planned, the Ricketts family stands to get a substantial property tax break available to...

Cook County may cremate some unclaimed bodies

Rather than letting bodies stack up in coolers at the Cook County morgue, the medical examiner is asking for the authority to cremate them...

It could be next fall before first pot clinics open

For Mike Graham, what started as an aggravation of an old football injury led to a number of failed spinal fusion surgeries before doctors...

Simon won't say if she backs Quinn for re-election

More than five months after saying she wouldn’t return as Gov. Pat Quinn’s running mate, Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon announced...

Illinois lawmakers miss paychecks today

Illinois lawmakers woke up today to find their monthly paychecks were not deposited into their bank accounts, a punishment from Gov. Pat...

City budget hole next year pegged at $339 million

The day of financial reckoning for Chicago is not far off, with the city budget shortfall expected to near a record $1 billion in 2015 if...

Preckwinkle replaces ethics board chief

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle on Tuesday named a new county ethics chief to replace the one she dumped during an...

Madigan, Cullerton sue Quinn over blocked lawmaker paychecks

Emanuel warm to right field Wrigley party deck over Sheffield

Mayor Rahm Emanuel today sounded supportive of allowing the Cubs to build a right field party deck over Sheffield Avenue, pointing out...

Quinn signs law expanding gym class exemption for disabled students

Students with disabilities who play organized sports outside of school will be able to skip gym class under a new state law.

Quinn signs bill allowing online voter registration in Illinois

Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn signed a measure into law Saturday that will make Illinois the 18th state to allow voters to register online.

Rep. Roskam faces ethics probe

WASHINGTON — A trip to Taiwan that Rep. Peter Roskam took with his wife in 2011 has been referred to the House ethics committee at the...

Comptroller says Quinn move means no paychecks for lawmakers

Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka said Thursday that she cannot issue paychecks to lawmakers unless they vote to overturn Gov. Pat Quinn's $13.8...

Moore disappointed probe prevented White House ethics award

Ald. Joe Moore said Wednesday he was disappointed that what he considers an unfair ethics probe into his ward office employment prevented...

Former state Rep. Constance Howard pleads guilty to mail fraud

SPRINGFIELD — Former state Rep. Constance Howard pleaded guilty Wednesday to diverting as much as $28,000 for her personal and...

Ricketts seeks pledge that rooftop owners won't sue

Even after the City Council unanimously signed off Wednesday on the Cubs' $500 million remake of Wrigley Field and the neighboring area, the...

City Council says no small digital signs for nine months

It will be some time before any more small digital signs that critics consider a visual blight will pop up in Chicago neighborhoods after...

Deb Mell succeeds dad as 33rd Ward alderman

Minutes after Deb Mell was sworn in as Chicago's newest alderman Wednesday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel motioned her to the dais in the council...

New law bans Metra board pensions, health coverage

SPRINGFIELD — Generous health care and pensions will go by the wayside for future political appointees overseeing the Chicago area's...

Quinn hints at special session on pensions next month

Gov. Pat Quinn hinted Tuesday that he may summon lawmakers back to Springfield again this summer to take up public employee pension reform,...

Emanuel: Changes clear way for Wrigley Field approval

After months of public posturing and private arm-twisting, Chicago aldermen are poised to sign off today on a Cubs plan to remake Wrigley...

Watchdog alleges ethics breach by Ald. Moore

In a case of only-in-Chicago political timing, the White House announced Monday it would honor Ald. Joe Moore as a “pioneer for...

Cook County trigger lock gun law could be toughest in Illinois

Chicago and Cook County Democrats raced Wednesday to put in place more comprehensive bans on semi-automatic assault weapons — with the...

Tunney threatens to try to block Wrigley unless changes made

Ald. Tom Tunney is threatening to withhold his support for a massive Wrigleyville redevelopment unless changes are made to a hotel the...

Lisa Madigan won't say if father ever asked her to hire someone

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan brushed aside questions Wednesday about whether her father, powerful House Speaker Michael Madigan,...

Cook County Board approves $529,000 for patronage case

The Cook County Board today approved a payout of more than $500,000 to nearly a dozen people that a federal court monitor determined were...

Berrios political firings to cost taxpayers more than $500,000

Cook County taxpayers are expected to end up shelling out more than $500,000 to nearly a dozen people Assessor Joseph Berrios fired for...

Transformers 4 filming in Chicago next month

The Transformers filmmaking crew will return to Chicago next month, but the disruption may not be as significant or conspicuous as it was...

Quinn, Madigan have chilly interaction in hot governor race

The temperature inside the manufacturing facility was warm, but the interaction between Gov. Pat Quinn and Attorney General Lisa Madigan was...