Through May alone, the City Council has already approved $145.5 million in taxpayer payments to settle lawsuits alleging ...

The suit targets a broad array of figures in Trump’s government as defendants, from DOGE head Elon Musk to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

West Chicago Mayor Daniel Bovey is suing the city council, city administrator and city attorney over whether the ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson will publicly address a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice Monday looking into the City of Chicago's hiring practices.

Six years after the alleged hate-crime hoax saga started, city lawyers who originally sued for $130,000 called it "a fair, ...

Comments made Sunday by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson have led the U.S. Department of Justice to launch an investigation into ...

Chicago government officials have agreed to pay out nearly double the amount they budgeted for lawsuit settlements this year.

The department took issue with comments the mayor made at a public event Sunday, in which he identified six high-level ...

In total, the City Council approved $77.9 million in settlements in seven lawsuits, including more than $62 million in cases ...

The city of Chicago has joined other cities ... without congressional approval, the lawsuit seeks an injunction to prevent the downsizing, which Mayor Brandon Johnson says is already “disrupting ...

The DOJ launched an investigation into Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson this week, accusing the mayor of racial discrimination in his hiring practices.