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There are things to potentially like in the mayor’s first budget. But there is an all-important issue on which the upcoming City Council budget hearings must shed considerable light: Does it all add up?

War in the Middle East plunged humanity to new lows on Sunday 8 October 2023 that have gripped international attention since. If that were not the case, the world would likely be abuzz with the breathtaking exploits of a 23-year-old Kenyan who changed running history in Chicago on the same…

Myrtle Brown’s body was found in a creek behind her home in suburban Chicago last month

The free festival allows the public to explore more than 170 culturally, historically and architecturally significant sites around the city.

The judge spent part of the hearing asking about Chicago’s persistent public corruption problem. At one point he stopped a prosecutor and asked, ‘Why does public corruption keep happening?’

Unlike the former department scrapped by Rahm Emanuel, the new City Hall addition would not enforce pollution laws.

This venerable Michigan Avenue denizen, which sits across from Grant Park and between Van Buren Street and Ida B. Wells Drive, counts among Chicago’s most distinctive and most visited architectural gems.

What to know before heading to a showing of the superstar’s record-breaking movie in the Chicago area.

A Kim Petras concert, the Frankenstein story as both ballet and comic musical, and several Halloween happenings are among the entertainment highlights of the week ahead.

A budgeting system critics say hurts schools with declining enrollment has led to a reallocation of resources to schools serving low-income students.

Authorities say former NFL player Sergio Brown has been arrested in Southern California nearly a month after the body of his 73-year-old mother was found behind her suburban Chicago home