There’s been a lot of hesitancy, uncertainty — even outright fear — among many in the Chicago performing arts community, ...

Behind-the-scenes staff acrimony mirrors public tension betwee Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.

Emanuel’s successor, Lori Lightfoot, went with political theater when she sought to upstage Trump’s new Chicago director of U ...

that the governor would be vulnerable in a Democratic presidential primary if he doesn’t repair his rocky relationship with Chicago’s Black mayor. But Pritzker’s people see little upside in ...