Chicago City Council

Attention Chicago drivers: If you block a bus or bike line, you can expect to get a ticket in the mail.

Whenever property owners ignore their legal obligation to shovel their sidewalks, up to 600,000 Chicagoans can literally become prisoners in their own homes. They include senior citizens and people who just have trouble getting around. And they’re frequently forced to stay home because walking on a snow-and ice-covered sidewalk would put them in danger of falling. A handful of alderpersons…

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s push for a quick vote on a proposed 15-year franchise agreement with Commonwealth Edison was short-circuited in the City Council on Wednesday.

As mail carriers continue to be targeted by thieves, the Chicago City Council has introduced an ordinance that would change the location of outdoor mail collection boxes.

The practice of challenging the nominating petitions of candidates for office in the city of Chicago has become fairly commonplace over the years, and as the Board of Elections sets a schedule to hear those challenges, at least four members of the City Council will have to ward off those efforts.

Less than three months before the 2023 Chicago municipal elections, the city’s 12th ward will likely have a new representative on the City Council, as attorney Anabel Abarca has been nominated to replace the departing George Cardenas.

Monday marked the final day that candidates were eligible to file nominating petitions for the 2023 Chicago municipal elections, and the races to determine the makeup the Chicago City Council have begun to take shape.

Monday marked the last day for Chicago mayoral hopefuls and aldermanic candidates to file petitions, and many turned out to put their hat in the ring. NBC 5’s Political Reporter Mary Ann Ahern reports.

Monday marked the first day that candidates were eligible to file nominating petitions for the 2023 Chicago municipal elections, and the races to determine the makeup the Chicago City Council have begun to take shape.

Hopefuls for the 2023 Chicago mayoral election are aiming to get their petition signatures in ahead of the deadline, but Mayor Lori Lightfoot has her own strategy, NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.

The search has begun for candidates to replace 12th Ward Ald. George Cardenas, who announced that he would resign from his post effective Nov. 30.

A Chicago alderman was hospitalized after accidentally shooting himself in the wrist while cleaning a weapon on Monday.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot urged the City Council on Monday to “be bold with me … to continue to right historic wrongs” that have created two Chicagos: one for the haves, the other for the have-nots. Mary Ann Ahern has the story.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot urged the City Council on Monday to “be bold with me … to continue to right historic wrongs” that have created two Chicagos: one for the haves, the other for the have-nots.

Robotic personal delivery devices described as “beverage coolers on wheels” will soon be delivering more restaurant meals and groceries in and around the campus of the University of Illinois Chicago.

Another week, another member of the Chicago City Council who’s “tired of this” and not running for reelection.

The 21st Ward alderman says he will finish his work on the Chairman of the Transportation and Public Way committee before retiring at the end of his term.

Yet another member of the Chicago City Council is leaving her post, as Ald. Susan Sadlowski Garza announced on Monday that she will not seek reelection next year. Alds. Harry Osterman, James Cappleman and George Cardenas also have previously announced that they will not seek reelection

Yet another member of the Chicago City Council is leaving her post, as Ald. Susan Sadlowski Garza announced that she will not seek reelection next year.

Ald. Tom Tunney, Chicago’s first openly gay alderman, announced Tuesday that he will retire at the end of his term next year, becoming the latest in a long list of Chicago alderman leaving their posts.