Chicago Politics
Oct 29, 2026
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5 min read
The Council gets into The Budget, feds study the Amtrak yard they paid for, and a Rogers Park father is on week three of a hunger strike in a Texas ICE jail.
Oct 22, 2026
8 min read
Budget season really really begins, the head tax returns with a coupon, SEIU walks, and the Council orders a new ShotSpotter.
Oct 15, 2026
A veto, an override, and the federal money that leaves December 31.
Oct 8, 2026
7 min read
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!
Oct 1, 2026
This week: the parking meter deal, where sanctuary runs out, and how to use your legally mandated public comment at government meetings most effectively.
Sep 24, 2026
ICE in Evanston, Council punts on data centers, a bill to end DHS, and local news v. creators
Sep 17, 2026
Budget season, MBJ's re-election campaign, and the political drama of finding a new CPD superintendent.
Sep 10, 2026
3 min read
A year of Midway Blitz, lead pipe policy, and just cause for renters.
Sep 3, 2026
4 min read
Policy in theory v. policy in practice: who regulates a funeral home, $24,000 in unpaid daycare wages, and an ICE-contractor order that can't cancel an ICE contract.
Aug 27, 2026
The fastest-rising rents in America, what doesn't work with TIFs, and Dolly.
Aug 20, 2026
6 min read
Six weeks left on the meters, half the school board field signs an AI pledge, and the only question worth asking a mayoral candidate.
Aug 13, 2026
The alderman who wrote Chicago's data center incentives is calling the mayor a stunt artist for regulating them — while 142,000 households sit in the dark.
