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A Chicago City Wire analysis of public voting histories of 57 Chicago sports journalists found that 35 have cast votes in Democrat primaries, versus 14 in Republican ones.

A veteran Chicago Police Officer told Chicago City Wire that recent moves by Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to protect illegal immigrant criminals from being deported have made it even harder to serve and protect the crime-ridden city.

Illinois’ public K-12 school system spent more than $37 billion last year, 74 percent more than it did two decades ago, according to an analysis of school finance data by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

This Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Chicago) will mark 19 years since he was caught paying just $274.42 in property taxes on his Bucktown, single-family home at 2132 W. Cortland Avenue, worth an estimated $340,000 at the time.

School’s out in the summertime. So when Harrisburg’s Mike and Angella Gauch decided they would drive to Springfield earlier this month, getting out of work wasn’t a concern.

Sullivan High School in Rogers Park has a filthy basement. North Side State Representatives Ann Marie Williams (D-North Center) and Kelly Cassidy (D-Rogers Park) opted to skip work in Springfield this week and, instead, take pictures of themselves cleaning it.

State bureaucrats will dictate how many teachers Illinois school districts must hire and how much to pay them if a school funding bill is signed into law this month.

Arriving home from long family weekends today, many Chicago homeowners went from relaxed to stressed upon greeting their new, much larger property tax bills in the mail.