‘Operation Double Nickel' plan to lower property tax exemption age may not benefit all

Paying property taxes can be painful for most people. Hearing Lt. Governor Dan Patrick would like to lower the age to 55 for ...

How the political tide turned on Mark Welsh, the four-star general ousted as Texas A&M president

The A&M Board of Regents came to want a more explicitly conservative leader who would shut down controversy before it reared ...

Kathryn Garcia Is Named New Head of the Port Authority

Ms. Garcia, who ran for mayor of New York in 2021 after serving as the city’s sanitation commissioner, would succeed Rick ...

Irish influence lives beyond the machine

MAKE IT IRISH: The Irish Fellowship Luncheon drew a record-setting crowd of more than 1,400 to the Chicago Hilton on Friday, ...

Illinois’ US Senate primary race shows candidates still must court shrinking downstate Democratic base

All three major Democratic Senate candidates hail from the Chicago region, potentially ending the upstate-downstate balance ...