CHICAGO (WLS) -- Mayor Brandon Johnson says he's done everything he can to keep the Bears in Chicago. Recently, the team said it's focusing on Arlington Heights for a new stadium instead of one along the Chicago lakefront. The Bears purchased the old Arlington racetrack property two years ago.

Asked whether he would be open to any deal allowing the Chicago Bears to break their Soldier Field lease, Mayor Brandon Johnson said “it hasn’t come up.”

Mayor Brandon Johnson emphasized again Tuesday he's done his part to try to keep the Bears in Chicago. Chicago Bears leadership recently told the mayor's office they have shifted their focus for a new stadium back to the massive Arlington Heights property the team purchased back in 2023,

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is apparently getting closer to a decision on his political future and whether he will run for a third term or seek higher office instead.

Republicans in Washington aren’t likely to achieve the political triumph they seek when they grill Gov. JB Pritzker next month.

As Brandon Johnson approaches the midpoint of his term as Chicago mayor, he confronts a reality that he readily acknowledges. He must do a better job conveying to the city "why and what" he wants to get done.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson traveled to Springfield, Illinois, Wednesday to meet with Gov. JB Pritzker and other ... and his past tensions with the governor are well-known, Johnson insisted ...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker's schedule shows how he's balancing his work as the state's top executive with building a national profile.

BULL BY THE HORNS: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson accused former Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday of executing a “new-liberal” agenda and “austere budgets” while in City Hall that became a “playbook that Donald Trump is running” today.

JB Pritzker will be one of three governors ... that panel held a similar session in early March in which Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was one of four mayors put on the spot about laws that ...