An effort by opponents of Mayor Brandon Johnson to water down Chicago’s sanctuary city ordinance faltered in the City Council ...

Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance prohibits the city’s police department from working and coordinating with federal ...

Aldermen will vote on whether to let police work with federal agents when undocumented immigrants are arrested for certain ...

Ald. Raymond Lopez want to test a technology that helps police identify and respond to gunshots, but he needs city approval.

Two of the council's more conservative alders wanted to allow CPD to work with federal immigration authorities in cases where ...

A pair of Chicago aldermen have introduced legislation that would roll back the city’s sanctuary law currently forbidding any ...

Ald. Raymond Lopez and Silvana Tabares' proposal would have reinstated a controversial practice of allowing police to ...

Alders approved more than $35 million in settlements, blocked a vote to amend the city’s Welcoming City ordinance and delayed ...

The council, without debate, voted 39-11 during the first meeting of the year to block the measure put forth by Alds. Raymond Lopez (15th Ward) and Silvana Tabares (23rd Ward) to create carve-outs in ...

CHICAGO - A gunshot detection system is set to be launched in Chicago’s Back of the Yard s neighborhood, Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th) announced on Monday.

The proposal would allow police to help with deportations, but the city’s law department says it violates state law.

Less than a week before Donald Trump’s inauguration, Chicago City Council signaled its opposition to the President-elect’s ...