History suggests a Victorian-era prejudice against commercial traffic in Chicago parkways lurks behind a ban against pickup trucks on Lake Shore Drive. Should truck owners worry? And, where can they park, anyway? 

A new study says Chicago’s teen birth rate is on the decline, yet the city’s rate is still far above the rest of the country.

Illinois State Representative LaShawn Ford pleaded not guilty to 17 counts related to bank fraud.

The nephew of former Mayor Richard M. Daley has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter. Richard Vanecko was indicted by a Cook County special grand jury last week in the death of David Koschman, who died after he fell and struck his head outside a Chicago bar in 2004.

Chicago aldermen this week will cast a final vote on a municipal electricity aggregation program, the largest of its kind in the country.

It will be at least another week before a final ruling is made in the case of an off-duty Chicago cop who beat up a bartender. A judge is allowing two local lawyers to intervene in the case.

After more than four hours of questioning, a group of Chicago aldermen have signed off on Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan to build a network of digital billboards.