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Chicago homeowners wondering what the pandemic's thrashing of the Loop means for their wallets now have an answer: the largest residential property tax bill hike in at least 30 years. Due in large ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- People gathered Saturday night for a "property tax bonfire" at Harmony Community Church in Lawndale as they are trying to light the way to fairness. Many homeowners in Chicago have ...

Ben Szalinski, Statehouse reporter at Capitol News Illinois, joins Jon Hansen to talk about what is happening in Illinois politics. Ben discusses what was in the transportation bill, from funding to ...

Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday renewed his call for legislation requiring insurance companies to justify and disclose the reasons behind steep homeowners’ insurance rate hikes — a proposal that stalled ...

President Donald Trump late Wednesday night signed a funding bill that will end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. The House passed the bill by a 222-209 margin earlier in the evening.

After the Illinois General Assembly locked in new funding sources for mass transit agencies in the state, fare rates have been set for Chicago-area agencies. Metra, Pace and CTA will be folded under ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Crain’s residential real estate reporter Dennis Rodkin and ...

President Donald Trump signed a bill ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history on Wednesday. The shutdown stemmed from a clash over health care funding between Democrats and Republicans.

CHICAGO (WGN) — The elements played their way into the equation of Sunday’s matchup between the Chicago Bears and New York Giants at Soldier Field. With snow flurries flying and wind gusts whirling, ...

As Illinois lawmakers finished their work for 2025, they began backing away from their four-year-old pledge that the state would produce electricity only from carbon-free sources by 2045. They did so ...

Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte on Friday repeated his warning to home builders: ramp up building to bring prices down.