Gambling could soon come to Chicago’s neighborhood bars or international airports as aldermen eye legalizing video gambling machines as a way to add tax revenue.

Gov. JB Pritzker signed a letter along with 17 other Democratic governors Thursday, calling on the Trump administration to release nearly $7 billion in withheld federal education grants.

Cook County Democrats last week declined to pick official favorites in the crowded primary fields ahead of next year’s congressional primaries, but the party’s chair is backing a protege in the race to replace U.S. Rep Robin Kelly in the district that stretches from the South Side to central Illinois.

At least three spots on the Cook County Board are opening up, with North Side Commissioner Bridget Degnen announcing she will not seek a third term.

Gov. JB Pritzker wasted no time in calling on state legislators to do something about rising insurance rates after State Farm announced it was hiking homeowners insurance by 27.2% beginning this month, citing rising costs due to extreme weather events and pricier repairs.

Once a rising corporate star, former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore was sentenced Monday to two years in federal prison for her role in an elaborate scheme to funnel more than $1.3 million and other perks to associates of then-House Speaker Michael Madigan in exchange for help with the utility’s ambitious legislative agenda.

President Donald Trump on Monday followed up his lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over last week’s Jeffrey Epstein story by banishing one of the newspaper’s reporters from Air Force One for an upcoming Scotland trip.

The Trump administration has released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination.

Swastikas were spray-painted on several buildings in Little Village over the weekend, and one building was tagged a second time with a pro-immigration enforcement statement, community members said.