Many Charlotte-area residents are familiar with some of the more notable figures in local Black history, people like Harvey Gantt, the first Black student accepted to enroll at Clemson University who ...

University of Chicago researchers recently released a resident-drawn neighborhood map of Chicago that some North Siders say ...

Preston was fatally shot May 6, 2023, a couple of weeks before her graduation, by a group of teenagers while off duty, ...

DEATH OF DECORUM: Vulgar attacks and bickering erupted during a Chicago City Council committee meeting Tuesday, revealing the ...

The renewed tension between Mayor Brandon Johnson and the city’s business leaders comes after Johnson endured a bruising battle over the city’s 2025 budget and is under intense pressure from President ...

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The controversy over an art display at the Chicago Cultural Center bubbled over to City Hall, where divisions over a pro-Palestinian protest puppet were on full display Tuesday.

Mayor Brandon Johnson held a first of its kind "Lakeside Chat" Tuesday evening, a public but personal conversation about the ...

As the investigation into the Jan. 29 air disaster in Washington, D.C., was still getting underway, President Donald Trump didn’t bother to wait for actual evidence to figure out what ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said on Tuesday that the public will have a chance to see what’s inside City Hall’s gift closet—but there’s a catch.

Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez was told to leave a committee meeting during a debate over a controversial pro-Gaza puppet display at ...

A report by the Chicago Office of Inspector General showed hundreds of gifts given to the Mayor's office came in without ...