Alice Yin

Alice Yin is a beat reporter covering Chicago City Hall and the mayor's office. She started her career at the Tribune as an overnight crime reporter in 2019 and has since covered Cook County government, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and George Floyd protests on Chicago and the 2023 mayoral election. Before that she worked for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Michigan statehouse bureau of the Associated Press.

People walk past a parked food delivery robot near Kelly’s Pub on Webster Avenue in Lincoln Park on March 25, 2026. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune)

Food delivery robots shatter two Chicago bus shelters. ‘Two in seven days is not great,’ alderman says.

March 26, 2026 at 7:30 a.m.

Food delivery robots have shattered two city bus shelters within the last week, fueling heated discussion amongst Chicago humans who say they shouldn’t have to share the public way with...

Mayor Brandon Johnson signs a veto of an ordinance pausing a phaseout of the subminimum tipped wage as he’s joined by supporters, on March 25, 2026, at Let's Eat to Live restaurant in Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson vetoes tipped wage freeze, setting up City Council showdown

March 25, 2026 at 7:40 p.m.

Thirty aldermen last week voted to pause a 2023 ordinance that gradually eliminates Chicago's subminimum wage for tipped workers. Four more aldermen are needed to override Mayor Brandon Johnson's veto.

Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman is seen in a December 2025 photo. (Instagram)

Gov. JB Pritzker acknowledges ‘real failures’ in immigration system after Loyola student’s killing

March 25, 2026 at 8:33 a.m.

Loyola student Sheridan Gorman, 18, was shot and killed last week. Charged is 25-year-old Jose Medina, who authorities said is a Venezuelan national who was in the U.S. without legal...

Kenya Merritt, interim head of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, talks at the Office of Emergency Management and Communications on Dec. 29, 2025. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune)

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s cultural affairs pick sued by former employee

March 20, 2026 at 4:19 p.m.

Former first deputy DCASE commissioner Rosalyn Kimberly Grigsby is suing the city and Kenya Merritt under the Illinois Whistleblower Act.

U.S. Rep. Jesús "Chuy" García speaks during a press conference at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights headquarters in the Loop on Sept. 28, 2025. García is stepping down at the end of his term. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune)

Independents seek opening in 4th District, upended by US Rep. García’s controversial retirement

March 20, 2026 at 1:02 p.m.

The race to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Jesús "Chuy" García is emerging as the most competitive federal race on Illinois' November general election ballot following his controversial exit announcement.

Raeghn Draper, a bartender at Avondale’s Consignment Lounge and a One Fair Wage organizer, speaks at a rally at Chicago City Hall, March 18, 2026. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)

Mayor Brandon Johnson poised to veto freeze to tipped worker pay passed by aldermen

March 18, 2026 at 6:10 p.m.

Restaurant industry groups are leading the effort to halt the gradual raises approved by the City Council in 2023 with the so-called “One Fair Wage” ordinance

State Rep. La Shawn Ford, right, celebrates with U.S. Rep. Danny Davis, center, and Illinois House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch at Ford's 7th Congressional District primary election night party on March 17, 2026, at the National Association of Letter Carriers in Chicago. (Troy Stolt/for the Chicago Tribune)

La Shawn Ford wins Illinois 7th District primary despite heavy opposition from PACs

March 18, 2026 at 4:57 p.m.

State Rep. La Shawn Ford declared victory Tuesday evening in the Democratic primary to succeed U.S. Rep. Danny Davis.

Chicago police confiscated BORGs, an alcoholic concoction contained in a plastic gallon jug, during St. Patrick's Day celebrations, March 14, 2026. (Ishika Nanavati)

Mayor Brandon Johnson commends safe Chicago St. Patrick’s Day and says he has never had a BORG

March 17, 2026 at 3:58 p.m.

Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday commended the safety of Chicago’s St. Patrick’s Day celebrations and declined to endorse the proliferation of BORGs in citywide revelries.

The Chicago Housing Authority client service center building at 60 E. Van Buren St. on March 9, 2025. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)

DC public housing agency leader tapped as Chicago Housing Authority CEO

March 17, 2026 at 5:16 p.m.

The Chicago Housing Authority board voted Tuesday to appoint the leader of the public housing agency in Washington, D.C., as its new CEO.

Bronzeville Winery owner Eric Williams on March 13, 2026, in Chicago. “The reality is you are going to destroy restaurants in the city. The ones who (employ) black employees,” Williams wrote of One Fair Wage. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune)

City Council poised to vote on restoring Chicago’s subminimum wage for tipped workers

March 16, 2026 at 5:16 p.m.

An ordinance to restore Chicago’s subminimum wage for tipped workers is headed for a vote on Wednesday, potentially setting up Mayor Brandon Johnson’s signature policy win for City Council’s next...

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