Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order Wednesday meant to prevent the city from buying guns from problem dealers.

It’s the latest opportunity the Hillside Democrat has had to court progressive-minded interests as he navigates uncertain support among his own members, many of them progressives, as leader of the 78-member House Democratic Caucus.

LiUNA Local 1 accused the Mayor Brandon Johnson-appointed leaders of the departments of Transportation and Aviation of violating laborers’ contracts.

One of the city’s police oversight commissioners on Wednesday asked the City Council to extend the deadline in the ongoing search for the next Chicago police superintendent until spring.

Stephen Colbert, whose 11-year run as host of “The Late Show” was defined in part by his feud with President Donald Trump, has received an “anti-censorship” award from a foundation established by the author-playwright-publisher Ishmael Reed.

Wisconsin voters who have already returned their absentee ballots for the state’s primary are not allowed to void those and request a new one, a judge ruled Wednesday.

Oak Lawn officials celebrated progress on the construction of a stormwater detention basin near Polaris Intermediate School.

President Donald Trump and the Justice Department are asking the Supreme Court to toss an $83 million defamation verdict won by writer E. Jean Carroll after she accused him of sexual assault, saying he can’t be sued for comments he made while he was president.