Leadership of Illinois’ largest umbrella union organization, which represents 1.7 million household members, delivered a slap at Gov. JB Pritzker and Democratic legislative leaders for a lack of action on union priorities during the recently completed legislative session.

Aldermen proposed ordinances Wednesday to rename Northerly Island after Pope Leo XIV and marking part of Wabash Avenue — the strip in front of Trump Tower — “Barack Hussein Obama Way.”

Mayor Brandon Johnson proposed a $425 million taxpayer subsidy Wednesday for public infrastructure at the tract where the Chicago Fire are building a stadium.

The Federal Reserve kept its key rate unchanged Wednesday yet almost half the central bank’s policymakers said they could support a rate hike later this year.

Aldermen approved a Chicago Cubs-backed plan Wednesday to allow three new signs to go up on buildings overlooking iconic Wrigley Field.

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration pitched acquiring the Greyhound station as a critical step in protecting bus riders and keeping bus travel affordable.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Donald Trump last year that he was the “greatest friend Israel ever had in the White House.”

Cameron Hamilton, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency, pledged to senators Wednesday to be “fair and reasonable” in assessing requests for disaster aid as he seeks to run an agency roiled by the administration’s threats to dismantle it.