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

President Trump on Saturday delivered the commencement address to graduating cadets at West Point in New York. In the hour-long speech, Mr. Trump touted U.S. military strength and laid out his ...

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

Five years after George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer, the future of the intersection where it happened ...

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

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

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

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

Brandon Johnson is under investigation for alleged violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits ...

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

A city attorney Monday said 10 new full-time agents will be coming to Chicago streets as part of the deal to end a lawsuit ...

This story, originally published by MindSite News, is the latest installment of Fateful Encounters, an ongoing investigative collaboration between MindSite News, the Medill Investigative Lab-Chicago ...