Chicago Tonight

City Council rejects the mayor’s $300 million property tax hike. Advocates push back against the city’s new shelter approach. And Kim Foxx reflects on her tenure as Cook County state’s...

What residents on Chicago’s South Side think about reparations. An effort to document Illinois’ connections with the Underground Railroad. And a new opera explores a family’s grief and...

Pushback to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to hike property taxes. And efforts in Illinois to “shore up” protections ahead of a second Trump presidency.

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What Donald Trump’s reelection could mean for his ongoing legal cases. And a federal court ruling finds Illinois’ assault weapons ban unconstitutional.

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Former President Donald Trump is heading back to the White House and with more support in Chicago and Illinois than ever before — leaving deflated Democrats to wonder where their party...

City Council members push back on the mayor’s property tax hike proposal. We unpack the swing of Latino support that helped fuel Donald Trump’s reelection. And congressional reaction to...

Kamala Harris concedes the race for president. We have local reaction to Donald Trump’s victory, plus two area congressmen on what his reelection means for Capitol Hill and Illinois.

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Election Day is officially here. What to know as polls begin to close. And two very different visions for the nation’s future — our Spotlight Politics team unpacks that and more.

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The latest presidential polls have Kamala Harris and Donald Trump deadlocked across swing states. But what does polling actually tell us? And how to cope with stress caused by the election...

It all comes down to Tuesday as polls show an incredibly tight race for president.

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