Susana Mendoza

Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza made known in a video she released Wednesday that state legislators will not be getting raises in the next budget year, which begins July 1.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced big changes to the state’s stay-at-home order Wednesday, and NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern has the story.

The race for Chicago mayor comes with a spotlight like no other, and on Wednesday, candidates Susana Mendoza and Amara Enyia faced unexpected questions as they look to win the city’s top job.

The scramble is on to convince voters to get to the polls as the largest group ever of candidates for Chicago mayor are on the ballot.

Comments made on “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett’s felony charge by Chicago’s top cop Thursday received mixed reaction from some of the city’s mayoral candidates.

Election night is exactly one week from Tuesday and never before has there been 14 candidates running for mayor–only two will make it to the April run off.

The race for mayor of Chicago is hitting the final stretch and there’s just a week left in the campaign.

There have been more than 40 mayoral forums across the city, but only two of them televised so far. FOX32 and the Lincoln Forum invited five candidates for Thursday’s session but less than two hours before the “live” event Bill Daley cancelled.

A prime-time televised debate in the Chicago mayor’s race is running into a legal challenge. Almost two-thirds of the mayoral ballot has been excluded from a forum set to take place Thursday night, and Amara Enyia and Paul Vallas are fighting to be included.

In the race for mayor, Susana Mendoza hit the reset button Monday after last week’s revelations that one of her close political allies — Ald. Danny Solis wore a wire for federal investigators and she returned all campaign contributions tied to the Solis family.

Illinois Comptroller and aspiring mayoral candidate Susana Mendoza said she will donate $73,900 in donations she received from Ald. Danny Solis’ political organizations, reversing course on her previous statement that she would only donate the funds if the alderman is accused of wrongdoing.

The heat is on all of the mayoral candidates with ties to Ald. Ed Burke in light of a federal criminal investigation.

When Ald. Ed Burke’s offices were raided five weeks ago, one of the few mayoral candidates to speak critically of the powerful alderman was Lori Lightfoot.

Chicago mayoral candidate and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is dropping her challenge to the campaign petitions of Illinois Comptroller and fellow candidate Susana Mendoza.

Calling her opponent a “bully,” Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza decried the petition challenges filed by Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle as “shameful.”

The Chicago Teachers Union endorsed Toni Preckwinkle’s campaign for mayor, according to multiple sources who attended Wednesday night’s House of Delegates meeting. The vote took place with delegates standing to express their vote and multiple sources say the vote was close.

Remember the question Mayor Rahm Emanuel faced eight years ago? Well this time its state Comptroller Susana Mendoza on the hot seat.