The Latest Breaking News from Chicago

The advice the former president had for the city’s new mayor-elect wasn’t about politics or policy.

CHICAGO — Postal carriers citywide continue to be robbed at gunpoint and police say at least 12 have occurred in the last month, most recently on Wednesday in the city’s North Lawndale neighborhood.

Jay Damm casts an eye to the sky and the ground, then divines what hunting for morel mushrooms might look like around Chicago outdoors this spring.

Victories in Chicago and St Louis, plus a key judicial race in Wisconsin, argue against tacking to center, leftwingers say

CHICAGO — Jarred Tinordi is old school when it comes to analytics.

Over many years of writing, reporting, editing and researching stories about urban crime, some of the most eye-opening conversations I’ve had about drug abuse, drugndealing and violent crime weren’t with police officers, elected officials or academics.

CHICAGO — One of the first Chicagoans charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was found guilty Friday on all six counts he faced related to the mob breach.

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and interim police Superintendent Eric Carter announced an internal investigation Friday into the unauthorized “like” by the Chicago Police Department’s Twitter account of an anti-transgender tweet.

CHICAGO — Brandon Johnson will be looking to Springfield for help with parts of his estimated $450 million package of tax proposals, but Gov. J.B. Pritzker made clear after meeting Friday with Chicago’s mayor-elect that he doesn’t support a major component of the plan: a tax on financial transactions.