The primary goal of the self-tax is to supercharge Chicago's tourism push, with the estimated $40 million in annual revenue more than double the annual budget.

The increase in the city’s 17.5% hotel tax would more than double the marketing budget for the convention and tourism agency known as Choose Chicago. The agency's budget is dead last among major convention cities.

Aldermen offered resounding support for a new Tourism Improvement District, a self-tax on downtown hotel stays that would bolster the city's tourism marketing dollars.

Protesters carrying signs with messages against U.S. military activity in Venezuela and ongoing ICE operations shut down Michigan Avenue Saturday.

A man was due in court Monday in a shooting that left one man dead and another wounded on a CTA 'L' train in downtown Chicago last month.

A large crowd gathered in downtown Chicago’s Loop to protest what organizers describe as a looming war on Venezuela, following the removal of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife in a

As reported by Crain's Chicago Business, Transwestern’s new lease at 123 N. Wacker covers about 35,000 square feet across the three highest floors in the building and consolidates space it had been splitting between 200 W.