Mary O'Connor

Edison Park, a haven for firefighters, also had poor response times for fires and medical emegencies.

Opening O'Hare's new runway, Mayor Rahm Emanuel pointed to Midway Airport as an example of success.

Residents of the 41st and 45th wards will be among the last in the city to receive blue carts.

Parents at the Edgebrook elementary school have sought an expansion to ease overcrowding.

A city program awarded new equipment to park playgrounds.

Both Oriole Park and Wildwood elementary schools are overcrowded — but only one is getting a new annex.

The far Northwest Side high school is slated to get all new science labs, lockers and windows.

Police gathered information after Ald. Mary O'Connor (41st) posted a community alert to her Facebook.

"Water started pouring in from the shower drains," said owner of one of 500 homes flooded in the area.

Thirty teens from the Northwest Side will be hired to create the bricolage mural this summer. 

Northwest Side residents are raising a ruckus over a traffic plan that sends noisy jets over their homes.

The zoning change that's been proposed gives manufacturing and industry priority over other land uses.