Chicago Police (CPD) have yet to make any arrests stemming from a mob assault, caught on video, on a 15-year-old male near Lane Tech High School in Roscoe Village during a Memorial Day weekend carnival.

Chicago City Wire has learned that Chicago Police (CPD) routinely has only two members of its SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) unit on duty in the city overnight.

An armed security guard associated with staunch anti-gun and nationally known social activist, Father Michael Pfleger, was arrested on May 27 outside St. Sabina’s Roman Catholic Church on the South Side where Pfleger is a senior pastor.

Irving Myrick only recently discovered that the property taxes on the retirement home he bought in Markham in 2012 were double what he thought he'd owe at the time of purchase. Now he’s fighting just to be able to afford to keep the house.

Records obtained by Chicago City Wire show that Chicago Public Schools (CPS) spent nearly $100,000 for student and teacher trips to the United Kingdom, Italy, South Africa and Costa Rica last year, as district leaders were asking Illinoisans to pay more in taxes to bail out the insolvent, debt-ridden district.

Tim Pomaville, a real estate developer and property owner in Edgebrook, said he was shocked when he received a notice just over a week ago that the Edgebrook Sauganash Chamber of Commerce was behind a proposal to raise property taxes as part of a special service area (SSA) designation.

In the Republican primary election for governor, four wards in the Northwest Side bucked the voting trend of the nearby wards by favoring Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) over Gov. Bruce Rauner.

Chicago Public Schools (CPS) face the threat of a lawsuit from the Chicago Republican Party over recent student anti-gun protests, which were supported by school administrators.

The primary campaign of embattled incumbent State Sen. Ira Silverstein (D-Chicago), who faced sexual harassment charges late last year, is being helped by a third candidate in the race, Caroline McAteer-Fournier, a source close to the race told North Cook News.

Expense records obtained by Chicago City Wire show that Chicago Public Schools spent nearly $100,000 on international student trips booked through a Chicago-based travel agency over the past year.

The State Democratic Victory Fund provided $55,400 in campaign funds to state Sen. Ira Silverstein (D-Chicago), according to the Illinois State Board of Elections.

A Feb. 18 post on Citizens Report American Irish Culture's website said Gov. Bruce Rauner “takes the cake for having the nerve to turn a dead cop’s funeral into a campaign stop.”

Republicans from at least one township in Cook County said that Tuesday's endorsement of Gov. Bruce Rauner was the outcome of a rigged process and not a reflection of grass-roots support within the party.

Governor Bruce Rauner's handpicked state schools superintendent is calling for a massive, $7.2 billion tax hike to fund higher school administrator and staff salaries.

A photo of a welfare recipient’s nearly bare refrigerator, containing a few sodas and other sugary drinks, taken by WTTW-TV reporter Amanda Vinicky and posted on Twitter is emblematic of the upcoming debate in Congress over the nation’s Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), poverty experts say.

Catholic universities in America have no set, across-the-board policy for handling the religious practices of students of other faiths, according to comments Chicago City Wire received from the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (ACCU) and the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU).

Commander Ernest "E.J." Errico of the Veterans of Foreign War (VFW) Post 5788 in Lockport says that despite the gesture made by National Football League players this past Sunday to honor veterans in light of Veterans Day makes no difference – Post 5788 will continue to ban broadcasts of NFL games.

Such is the lament of Mark Glennon, founder of WirePoints Illinois Financial News, when speaking to Chicago City Wire about the fiscal black hole that the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) system has apparently become.

The Chicago City Council recently added two more surcharges to its Chicago hotel bill, putting an industry already enduring the highest tax rates on hotel rooms in the country at an even bigger disadvantage against similar convention host cities.

Far left-leaning State Rep. Will Guzzardi (D-Chicago) frequently pitches concepts in Springfield that would be better described as socialist. However, his latest idea-- a state law that would repeal Chicago's 1997 law banning "rent control," or government-imposed limits on residential apartment rents-- would end up enriching many of the city's most ardent capitalists.