A new law passes requiring buildings to report their energy uses. Some aldermen warn it will cost condo owners big on their assessments. Paris Schutz has the details on that, and more news from today's Chicago City Council meeting. Read the news release.

City Council's Progressive Caucus is putting pressure on the mayor to reappoint Chicago Inspector General Joseph Ferguson. Paris Schutz has the details.

Chicago aldermen weigh in on the plan to place digital billboards along the expressways, city violence, and layoffs at Chicago Public Schools. View a map of the proposed sites for digital billboards.

Almost half of the Chicago City Council has signed on in support to Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s parking meter changes, barely one day after the voluminous amendment was introduced to them.

Mayor Emanuel's plan to return free water to some nonprofit organizations advances in the Chicago City Council. But just who will pay for water and why are some religious leaders still upset? Paris Schutz has the latest on that, and the controversy over parking meters.

A group of aldermen is calling for tougher oversight over the mayor’s office.

Residents pay for water, but religious leaders say their organizations should not. Paris Schutz has more on why the issue has brought all faiths together.

For the second day in a row, a group of Chicago aldermen have formed a so-called reform caucus. We hear from members of the “Paul Douglas Alliance” and the “Progressive Reform Coalition.”

Is Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy's job on the line? Find out what the mayor and the top African-American alderman had to say.

A committee of aldermen dealt a blow today to the mayor’s latest attempt at ethics reform aimed in part at strengthening oversight of City Council. 

An ethics bill that would make it easier for the City Council’s watchdog to investigate aldermen has been watered down in the face of an aldermanic revolt.

Some are calling it another parking meter deal. Will a plan to build electronic billboards along the expressway help or hurt taxpayers? Paris Schutz has the story.

We have both sides of the debate on the mayor's controversial proposal to have the city purchase electricity in bulk on behalf of residents.

Several City Council members aren't showing up regularly to City Hall for work. Paris Schutz has the story.

Aldermen give us their take on the Chicago teachers' strike.

We talk with Chicago aldermen about NATO, the mayor's ethics plan, aldermanic pensions and more.