Lori Lightfoot was never the left’s candidate. In fact, in Lightfoot’s landslide victory in April, her staunchest opposition came from Chicago's activist left — community organizers, police reformers, ...

A longtime leader of Washington’s leftist wing, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders said in Chicago that his deeply-rooted push for income equality, guaranteed health care and other policies meant to lift up the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO (AP) — Brandon Johnson, a union ...

A progressive Chicago politician is facing backlash for galivanting around Nashville as her district was “devastated” by severe storms and heavy flooding. Democratic Alderwoman Stephanie D. Coleman ...

Before New York City mayoral primary winner Zohran Mamdani made a splash, another big-city Democratic mayoral candidate with progressive bona fides unexpectedly burst onto the national political scene ...

An impassioned Mayor Brandon Johnson was in his element as he tailored his pitch to reinstate Chicago’s corporate head tax during a recent West Englewood town hall. “There’s a reason why more of our ...

When a progressive Chicago alderperson scolded Gov. JB Pritzker in November over his opposition to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s failed proposal to tax large corporations $21 per employee, Illinois’ ...

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Springfield lobbyist plans to lead a group of the mayor’s City Council allies to lobby the Illinois General Assembly on Tuesday for a corporate income tax hike and ...