A downtown alderman said he will push to bump the teen curfew in Chicago up to 8 p.m. after a tourist was shot in front of a movie theater over the weekend in his ward.

Aldermen rejected an effort Wednesday to ban the sale of new fur products in Chicago.

A day after at least 250 people protested at Federal Plaza the arrest and possible deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, civil rights groups in Chicago called for his release.

Thornton Township trustees walked out Tuesday after Supervisor Tiffany Henyard refused to allow a trustee to participate remotely.

The mayor of Wisconsin’s capital city said Wednesday that she has placed the municipal clerk on leave as investigators work to determine how she failed to count almost 200 absentee ballots in the November election.

A Senate bill that would make school board races partisan was amended before passing out of the House Elections and Apportionment Committee Wednesday.