After a year and a half without a permanent leader for Cook County’s Forest Preserves, County Board President Toni Preckwinkle has nominated a new head for the district.

An effort to require Chicago businesses to install surveillance cameras started with a City Council majority but is now seeing its support wither.

Zohran Mamdani was a state lawmaker unknown even to most New York City residents when he announced his run for mayor back in October.

The owner of a controversial Trump-themed store facing eviction in Chicago’s northwest suburbs has agreed to move out of the building next month as part of a settlement agreement with the landlord filed Wednesday in McHenry County Circuit Court.

President Donald Trump will control the so-called “golden share” that’s part of the national security agreement under which he allowed Japan-based Nippon Steel to buy out iconic American steelmaker U.S. Steel, according to disclosures with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Indiana’s new property tax system will result in an approximately $303 million reduction over the course of three years for Lake, Porter and LaPorte counties, according to the state’s Legislative Services Agency.

Oak Lawn is moving forward with plans to build a detention basin for stormwater storage in the fields near Polaris Intermediate School after over a year-long delay.

Bremen High School District 228 recently welcomed a new board member, filling an almost three-month vacancy after the previous member ran for a village board.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisers alarmed pediatricians Wednesday by announcing inquiries into some long-settled questions about children’s shots.