Right now, Chicago is on the brink of a historic milestone: the opening of its first large-scale youth noncongregate shelter ...

Now, the Trump administration is challenging it, wanting to shift focus on treatment and is targeting a small federal agency ...

Other cities unleashed small-scale housing. Chicago buried it in red tape. Now it’s hurting renters, seniors and working ...

The Chicago City Council plan commission has given the OK for a plan to revitalize the 79th Street corridor in Auburn Gresham ...

Despite a last-minute guarantee that jobs held by AFSCME Council 31 members would not be privatized, a joint City Council committee voted 19-17 to hold the vanguard ordinance in committee.

Graffiti is not just a metaphor of defiance. I believe that public art can breathe new life into Chicago’s blighted communities. On the walls of shuttered grocery stores and the boarded-up ...

The measure would create a city-run nonprofit that would partner with developers to build environmentally friendly housing ...

An elderly woman was found dead after a house fire Tuesday night in Gurnee, Illinois. Gurnee police and firefighters responded to a fire in the 1600 block of Dolcetto Lane around 9:10 p.m. Tuesday ...

Don't be disruptive." The Chicago Police Department sent the email to Chicago Public School parents overnight, strongly encouraging them to refrain from allowing their kids to attend such events.

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Four Democratic candidates running to be New York City's next mayor joined forces Friday morning to call out former Gov. Andrew Cuomo on his housing record. "Andrew Cuomo could ...

But the plan must move forward soon, he added. “The people of Chicago who need affordable rent and affordable housing, they’re going to need it sooner than later,” Johnson said.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Former President Joe Biden ... O'Malley estimates two-thirds of the agency's senior executive leaders have either quit or have been paid to quit, in addition to the planned ...