After 11 months of negotiations, CPS officials and the Chicago Teachers Union say they're close to a contract deal, and so the CPS Board postponed action on some important items Thursday afternoon.
The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday released its first report on a close call at between a private jet and a Southwest Airlines plane that happened at Midway Airport last month.
The Department of Veterans Affairs chief of staff issued an internal memo saying he was working with Elon Musk's "DOGE" to "aggressively" restructure the VA, targeting staffing under 400,000 employees.
With Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard absent, the village board approved multiple collective bargaining agreements and tens of thousands of dollars in payments related to lawsuits.
Three top Chicago officials departed their positions Thursday at the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, Office of Emergency Management and Communications and the Chicago Department of Aviation.
Police said Jamia Taylor was shot in the chest and left to die on the cold pavement overnight on the city's South Side. Her mother told ABC7 she is devastated after losing her oldest child just three days after she turned 29.
Trustees voted to fire two township employees that were placed on administrative leave last week after a brawl at a meeting, one of them being Supervisor Tiffany Henyard's boyfriend. She did not attend Thursday's meeting.