The city of Chicago has hired or promoted 490 people, mostly in the police department, since a freeze was instituted in ...

It is the nature of bureaucracies to expand or, at the very least, protect their size and thus the clout of the people who ...

A WBEZ analysis shows the city of Chicago hired or promoted 490 people since a hiring freeze was put in place in September.

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A day after the City of Chicago announced a hiring freeze on account of a significant budget deficit, CBS News Chicago took a closer look at existing positions at City Hall.

The city of Chicago hired or promoted 490 people since a hiring freeze was put in place in September, an analysis by my WBEZ colleagues Tessa Weinberg, Mariah Woelfel and Amy Qin shows.

Sources say Mayor Brandon Johnson will announce a property tax hike during his budget address, despite campaign promises not to.

[who] implemented a hiring freeze when she addressed back-to-back shortfalls fueled by jumps in the city's mandated pension payments early in her term." But Chicago is not the first city to face ...

Wednesday and Thursday mornings will bring the first widespread freeze of the season outside of Chicago, with frost possible in Chicago where low temperatures remain in the middle to upper 30s.

The city has been under a hiring freeze to address the nearly$1 billion budget shortfall. The proposal is already meeting with pushback from some city council members. Homeowners in Chicago ...