Mayor Brandon Johnson and other progressives hope Chicagoans’ aversion to Donald Trump will boost their popularity. Unlikely.

Former Representative Barbara Lee entered the campaign for mayor of the Bay Area city as the favorite. But her main ...

Ms. Garcia finished second in the 2021 Democratic mayoral primary in New York City. Her supporters could be an important ...

This weekend is the final push for those running to become the next mayor of Oakland. Former U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee ...

Meta Description Mayor Adams’s decision to run as an independent in the November final election has been cast narrowly as ...

1983: Harold Washington was elected Chicago’s first Black mayor. Washington, a U.S. representative who also served in the ...

Voters will also decide on a sales tax measure city leaders say is crucial to helping stave off a budget crisis. And voters ...

More than a week after the final votes were cast, the winner of the race for Des Plaines’ 1st Ward aldermanic seat remains ...

Chicago Teachers Union members have begun voting on a labor contract that would raise their average salary to more than $114,000 a year. Voting was scheduled Thursday and Friday on a four-year collect ...

Our solidarity has brought us this far,” CTU President Stacy Davis Gates and union leadership wrote in an open letter to ...

The letter, addressed to Mayor Brandon Johnson, comes one year into Clinée Hedspeth’s tenure as head of the department, where ...

Cara Spencer was elected mayor of the city of St. Louis in an avalanche, winning nearly two-thirds of the vote. Spencer’s ...