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The city of Chicago’s pension funds only generated $90 million in investment income but paid retirees $999 million in 2015, according to Chicago City Wire. Chicago is just one of several cities or states facing a crisis in which pension ...

WASHINTON — Second Amendment advocates won a major victory in a major American city last month when the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a Chicago ordinance that restricted shooting ranges to industrial areas. The city earlier had passed an ...

I grew up in Chicago and remember seeing plantain growing in yards and parkways along city streets. What always caught my eye were the slender seed stalks emerging from a nest of green leaves. I had no idea they were ...

More than 7,000 people may have been “disappeared,” held and interrogated in a secret and unconstitutional detention facility in the heart of America’s third-largest city. The Guardian newspaper is alleging that Chicago police operated a secret holding facility for more ...

Natasha Felix cannot volunteer at her children’s school and has trouble finding work as a home health aide because she let her children play outside as she watched them from her window — something millions of parents have done. In ...

A Missouri mother has permanently lost custody of her son to authorities in another state simply because she disagreed with doctors at a Chicago hospital. Isaiah Rider, 17, is now a ward of the state of Illinois even though he ...

Police in Chicago circumvented the Constitution by setting up a so-called “black site,” a secret jail where US citizens were held without charges or access to lawyers — and even possibly abused, The Guardian newspaper is alleging. The police are ...

The Chicago crime rate has finally shown some signs of decreasing – and a debate has broken out over the reasons behind the drop. City officials credit better police work with the drop in violent crime and theft in the ...

Chicago lawmakers have approved a new gun control law that restricts handgun purchases to one per month, requires a waiting period before a gun is obtained, and mandates that all gun sales be videotaped. The new ordinance comes on the ...

A Chicago mom is being forced to join a union in order to continue caring for her chronically ill son, although she is not giving up and is fighting it in court. Pam Harris has opted to stay at home ...