A state representative introduced a measure that would ban single-family-only zoning in Illinois cities.

An FBI wiretap played at Tim Mapes’ perjury trial last year captured the longtime aide to House Speaker Michael Madigan asking a colleague if he was going to put on his “big boy pants” before carrying out a politically thorny Madigan order.

Last year, Mayor Brandon Johnson appointed a pension working group — made up of city officials, pension fund executives and union leaders — to make recommendations on how to address the city’s worst-in-nation pension crisis. We would like to have seen taxpayers’ interests better represented in Johnson’s working group because the stakes could not be higher.

In the March 19 Democratic primary contest for Illinois Supreme Court, Justice Joy Cunningham faces a challenge from Illinois Appellate Judge Jesse Reyes.

Chicago police are warning Near North Side businesses of a spree of 12 restaurant burglaries in the area. In each burglary, one to three men, as well as a woman, pried open the patio doors to a restaurant and took cash registers and money, Chicago police said in a news release

Huntley has officially sold its old village hall to Wauconda-based True North Properties for $10.

Thousands of Illinoisans with compromised Link cards are unable to access their SNAP benefits and say the state is not doing much to help.