Stories by Matt Masterson

District officials on Wednesday outlined their $9.88 billion budget proposal for the 2027 fiscal year, as they combat “serious financial challenges” including declining enrollment and revenue and greater student need.

Mobile vaccination clinics will be held at community events and back-to-school fairs throughout suburban Cook County through mid-October. Vaccines for those ages 6 months to 18 years old will be provided at no cost, regardless of immigration or insurance status.

The fight over which questions will appear on November’s ballot erupted into a proxy fight between the mayor and his increasingly emboldened opponents on the City Council, even though the results will only carry symbolic weight.

Brown, Green, Orange and Pink Lines will all be affected by the closures.

The eight officers obtained loans worth approximately $283,000 after making “materially false statements in their applications for forgiveness of the loans,” according to the report.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche confronted skeptical questioning at a Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday about the creation of a fund to compensate allies of President Donald Trump.

Another member of CPD was fired after showing other employees of the police department photos of the teen dressed in the Nazi uniform while at work, creating “an offensive work environment,” according to the inspector general’s report.

An outbreak of a diarrhea-causing parasitic infection has hit more than half of U.S. states, including in Illinois, which has 194 confirmed and probable cases as of Monday.

Each Wednesday, WTTW News producer Josh Terry presents must-see live music shows from indie rock to jazz, country, hip-hop and more.

Reports that ICE is stopping most traffic stops in the wake of two deadly shootings. And what to know about the parasitic illness that’s sweeping the country.

Chicagoans have months before casting ballots for the city’s next mayor, but the competition is heating up with seven candidates vying for the top spot. Entrepreneur Joe Holberg was the first to enter the race.

It will be up to Chicago's next top cop to complete the hundreds of tasks laid out by the nearly seven-and-a-half-year-old court order while making sure the changes stick — and put an end to the decades of scandals, misconduct and brutality that have defined CPD and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

The U.S. House voted Tuesday to pass a measure to enact year-round daylight-saving time across the country, springing Congress forward into an issue that has long stumped lawmakers and spurred impassioned pleas.

Money raised at the annual BrewFest supports treatment and preservation of Horner Park’s sizable, and healthy, stand of ash trees. This year’s event is set for Friday.

Trump administration officials told Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to suspend most vehicle stops after two deadly shootings within a week, people familiar with the decision said Tuesday.

Three men filed a lawsuit Monday against administrators at the Illinois Department of Corrections and Menard Correctional Center, alleging that they inflicted cruel and unusual punishment on the plaintiffs.

Welles Park, on Chicago’s North Side, has become a preferred breeding ground for the beetles, multiple years in a row.

Charges filed in Chicago against a pair of jewelry importers who allegedly smuggled large amounts of gold into the U.S. helped propel a new federal task force past the $1 billion threshold for recoveries and penalties over the past year, officials announced.

Cook County and the city of Chicago launched the Violence Against Women Task Force at the start of 2026. The task force recently released its first report with recommendations to better unify the court and law enforcement systems.

Chicago’s police superintendent is set to retire this week — what comes next? And a task force explores the challenges facing domestic violence survivors.

A 2021 ordinance established the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, or CCPSA, and gave the commission power to set department policy, review the police budget and select superintendent finalists.

 Lindsey Graham’s sister, Darline Graham Nordone, has been named as her late brother’s temporary replacement in the U.S. Senate after his unexpected death over the weekend.

Finance Committee Chair Ald. Pat Dowell (3rd Ward) said she was calling off the vote amid “ongoing discussions” with Stonepeak Partners about new information.

A final vote on the subsidy that will make it possible for a new $750 million Chicago Fire stadium to be built south of the Loop is set for Wednesday.

Five people were killed in a “targeted mass shooting” against a family in southwestern Illinois, police said.

The Rev. Michael Pfleger, the longtime leader of St. Sabina Catholic Church and a vocal antiviolence activist, has been removed from the South Side parish following a new allegation of sexual abuse.