Can you imagine Illinois with a $17 billion budget surplus? Neither can we. But it does happen — elsewhere. One Midwestern ...

The responsibility for this disaster can be spread around but primarily lies — far more so than with any elected politicians ...

With the Chicago Teachers Union making unrealistic contract demands, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson taking its side and Gov. JB Pritzker eyeing a potential political train wreck, you might have thought ...

CBS's Chris Tye reports that 41 out of 50 members of the Chicago City Council do not like how Mayor Brandon Johnson -- who ...

Before Chicago casts its first vote on a school board, go inside the city's public school system. What's working? And what's not? This is CPS 101.

The six appointees are: Olga Bautista, Debby Pope, Michilla “Kyla” Blaise, Mary Gardner, Frank Niles Thomas, and the Rev.

The Chicago Public Schools system is a disaster, and it isn’t being helped by the fact that the city’s Democratic officials keep using it as a political tool.

After Friday’s announcement that Chicago’s entire Board of Education would be resigning, Mayor Brandon Johnson held a news ...

Some members of Chicago City Council are asking Illinois lawmakers to limit mayoral authority in regards to Board of ...

Ward Ald. Gil Villegas says some council members are eager to vet the proposed appointees to find out if there are conflicts of interest.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said the proposed appointees have been vetted by his staff and will go through the next vetting process with CPS.

Mayor Brandon Johnson debuted his new Chicago Board of Education on Monday, his latest move to wrest back control of the ...