Paul Goodrich at Center of Chicago Intern Contracting Scandal
Ex-Mayor Lightfoot's chief operating officer Paul Goodrich allegedly secured his son a paid internship and pushed $10M in undeserved taxpayer payments.
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Ex-Mayor Lightfoot's chief operating officer Paul Goodrich allegedly secured his son a paid internship and pushed $10M in undeserved taxpayer payments.
Three aldermen pushed a resolution demanding hearings into why Chicago heads into a second summer without a gunshot detection system despite $13.9M budgeted.
HUD rejected waivers needed to appoint retired Ald. Walter Burnett as CHA CEO, citing conflict-of-interest rules tied to his council role and landlord payments.
Chicago voters will elect all 21 school board members for the first time. Here's what's at stake and why this election matters for 320,000 students.
Chicago City Council elected Ald. Gilbert Villegas as Zoning Committee chair, dealing Mayor Brandon Johnson another political defeat amid ongoing power struggles.
Chicago City Council fell four votes short of overriding Mayor Brandon Johnson's veto of a measure to freeze the tipped worker subminimum wage phase-out.
Chicago Public Schools interim CEO Macquline King rejected calls to close schools May 1, setting up a showdown with the board and Chicago Teachers Union.
A Chicago City Council committee approved a 20% taxi fare increase, the first in a decade, aimed at helping cabbies compete with Uber and Lyft.
South Shore resident Jack Murphy defends Chicago teens amid the teen takeover debate, arguing adults should support youth rather than criminalize them.
Less than 2% of Illinois' 30,000 incarcerated people access college programs. Explore the obstacles and possibilities shaping prison education in the state.
Mayor Brandon Johnson vetoed an ordinance freezing tipped workers at 76% of minimum wage, leaving the City Council four votes short of an override.
Debra Parker dismissed her lawsuit over a revoked housing voucher and says she is now considering resigning from the Chicago Housing Authority board.
A Loyola University Chicago student's murder has reignited GOP criticism of Chicago's sanctuary city policies amid ongoing immigration enforcement debates.
Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson condemn ICE deployment at O'Hare, escalating tensions between Chicago officials and the Trump administration over immigration enforcement.
Mayor Brandon Johnson's budget director Annette Guzman collected illegal property tax breaks for five years on a South Loop condo she no longer lived in.
Mayor Brandon Johnson calls freezing Chicago's subminimum wage phaseout 'irresponsible' as a City Council vote looms on Wednesday.
Chicago's License Committee rejected ward-by-ward video gambling bans requested by six mayoral allies, defying the longstanding aldermanic prerogative tradition.
Chicago Housing Authority seeks to revoke Commissioner Debra Parker's housing voucher over fraud allegations, while also pushing for her removal from the board.
Federal threats to repeat Chicago's 'Midway Blitz' immigration enforcement surge this spring have not materialized, continuing a pattern of rhetoric outpacing action.