This week’s topics include reports of Mayor Brandon Johnson asking Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez to step down, ...

Where is support strongest for the gunshot detection system Chicago’s mayor wants to dump? In the Black and Hispanic wards ...

With the tree taken care of, WGN's Lourdes Duarte talked to the city's Department of Streets and Sanitation commissioner Cole Stallard, and took a deeper dive behind Stallard and the DSS's efforts to ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson has vowed to veto an ordinance that would keep ShotSpotter gun detection technology in place, but ...

We’ve seen plenty of Chicago mayors do things that turned out to be wildly unpopular in retrospect. Richard M. Daley’s ...

In a 13-0 vote, the City Council signed off on a two-year contract renewal with ShotSpotter that spreads acoustic sensors ...

Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson dismissed the gunshot-detection technology as nothing more than ‘walkie-talkies on a stick.’ ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker has authorized selling a former Illinois National Guard armory to the city for $1 for the "express purpose ...

Brandon Johnson is playing politics as his predecessors did, like appointing loyal organizers. But the flavor of his politics ...

A day after Mayor Brandon Johnson indicated he would veto a council effort aimed at keeping ShotSpotter – the controversial ...

What do we do when this goes off? ... Upwards of 80% in many communities, people don’t call 911 when there is a shooting.

The mayor of Chicago is defending his spending choices as the city faces a budget deficit of nearly $1 billion in 2025.