Reparations task force established by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson faces legal challenges from Judicial Watch and the Justice Department.

Chicago is marking 30 years since it started its first citywide recycling program, which began with a problematic kickoff, and continues to lag behind other major cities in terms of performance.

At least one person was killed in a fire Friday on the city's Northwest Side, a Chicago Fire Department spokesperson said.

A crossing guard helped a child safely cross a flooded road caused by a water main break in Chicago, even retrieving a lost glove in the process.

Chicago's inspector general is urging city departments to do more to monitor overtime payments to city employees, after finding the city paid out tens of millions of dollars in overtime to employees who might not have been eligible over five years.

Chicago police are warning about a sexual assault that happened after a female victim got off a CTA train on Tuesday.

Wrapped in four layers and armed with a drone, a Chicago Sun-Times photojournalist braved the brutal temps to capture delicate pancake ice swirling beneath the cold gaze of Chicago's skyline.

The changes are hitting West and South Side schools hardest, with some networks losing more than one-third of their students.