Aldermen on Wednesday advanced Mayor Brandon Johnson’s appointment of Anjanette Young to the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability.

Three weeks before the Illinois General Assembly’s scheduled adjournment, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson pressed to restore municipal revenue and to keep the Chicago Bears from leaving the city.

Stephen Colbert devoted one of his final episodes on CBS to an interview with Barack Obama, touring his soon-to-open Presidential Center in Chicago.

Eager ticket buyers flooded the website Wednesday ahead of the campus’ June 19 opening.

Gov. Mike Braun extended the suspension of Indiana’s sales gas tax Wednesday and also suspended the 36-cent excise tax on gas.

Indiana State Police Major Jerry Williams led the Democratic nomination Tuesday for Lake County Sheriff in a six-candidate race.

Incumbent State Senators Dan Dernulc and Rick Niemeyer appear headed for defeat after Tuesday’s Republican primary.

An election year redistricting movement has spread to South Carolina as Republicans attempt to redraw majority-Black congressional districts that have suddenly become susceptible because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling upending protections for minority voters.