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An American Airlines jet takes off at snowy Chicago O'Hare International Airport on Jan. 28, 2019. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Chicago aviation official allegedly pocketed over $250,000 from sham O’Hare snow removal deal: feds

November 5, 2025 at 4:14 p.m.

Eric Sanders is accused of pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a snow removal company with the help of his father, his girlfriend and her son.

CTA Blue Line trains travel alongside the Eisenhower Expressway in Chicago on Oct. 31, 2025. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Transit reform measure shifts CTA control from Chicago mayor. Lawmaker says that’s an ‘asset.’

November 5, 2025 at 5:27 p.m.

As state lawmakers raced to pass a $1.5 billion plan to overhaul regional mass transportation, Mayor Brandon Johnson's office lost control over the CTA board.

Mayor Brandon Johnson listens while meeting with the baiduhai Editorial Board on Oct. 28, 2025. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget pitch blames ‘Trump Deficit,’ but Chicago’s money woes found elsewhere

November 2, 2025 at 5:42 p.m.

Mayor Brandon Johnson's rhetoric around his first Trump-era budget does not, in fact, match the reality of what’s driving the city’s fiscal woes.

Border Patrol agents detain painter Krzysztof Klim while verifying his identification on Oct. 31, 2025, next to Halloween decorations outside a house in Chicago’s Edison Park neighborhood. Klim, originally from Poland and now a U.S. citizen, was briefly detained and then released. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

On Halloween, ‘state-sponsored terror’ in Chicago and the north suburbs

November 4, 2025 at 6:10 p.m.

Despite pleas from Gov. JB Pritzker to pause federal immigration enforcement operations while children celebrate Halloween, Border Patrol agents tore through Chicago and the suburbs.

Lakeview homeowner Leo Feler speaks at a news conference on Oct. 31, 2025, in downtown Chicago, describing how construction workers at his home were detained by federal agents a week earlier. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Lakeview resident calls on CPD to investigate federal agents for immigration raid on his property

October 31, 2025 at 6:11 p.m.

Leo Feler said federal agents violated the Fourth Amendment by bursting into his property last week while trying to arrest construction workers.

Mayor Brandon Johnson delivers his budget address to the City Council on Oct. 16, 2025, at Chicago City Hall. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

City Council majority tells Mayor Brandon Johnson: ‘Exclude this jobs tax’

October 30, 2025 at 5:34 p.m.

The aldermen said they were “gravely concerned” about what Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $21-per-employee tax on larger companies would do for Chicago job growth.

Ald, Byron Sigcho-Lopez talks with fellow aldermen before the start of a City Council meeting on Sept. 25, 2025. The upcoming council group meeting with legislative leaders will include Alds. Byron Sigcho-Lopez, Walter "Red" Burnett, Jeanette Taylor and Daniel La Spata. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Aldermen to lobby lawmakers on behalf of Mayor Brandon Johnson for ‘progressive revenue’

October 27, 2025 at 4:49 p.m.

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Springfield lobbyist plans to lead a group of the mayor's City Council allies to lobby the Illinois General Assembly on Tuesday for a corporate income tax hike...

Brian Kolp carries tear gas near his home that was used by border patrol officers at the scene where residents say a landscaper worker, a resident of the area, and a woman on a bike were detained on the 3700 block of North Kildare Avenue Saturday Oct. 25, 2025 in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Federal immigration agents deploy tear gas on Northwest Side streets as Chicagoans bellow, ‘Get out of our city!’

October 27, 2025 at 5:21 p.m.

Federal immigration agents again deployed tear gas on Chicago streets Saturday morning, despite mounting scrutiny from a federal judge over their use of the chemical weapons.

Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks after signing an executive order restricting federal immigration actions from designated areas, Oct. 6, 2025, at the Westside Justice Center. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s political fund returns $120K from PACs connected to city vendors

October 22, 2025 at 9:48 p.m.

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s campaign last quarter returned $120,000 from two political action committees both led by developers with active city contracts.

Rideshare drivers wait in a TNP (Transportation Network Providers) Lot on Balmoral Avenue outside O’Hare International Airport on Oct. 18, 2025. Some drivers reported seeing federal agents detaining rideshare drivers earlier in the day at the TNP Lot. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

11 arrested in second immigration raid at O’Hare rideshare lot

October 18, 2025 at 5:05 p.m.

For the second time this month, federal agents were seen detaining rideshare drivers parked in a designated staging area at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.

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