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A rising star in a more progressive Chicago City Council, Fuentes shared her inspirational story hoping it will blaze a positive trail for young people making destructive choices. “I got lucky to have people who introduced me to a world of organizing and movement,” Fuentes told the Sun-Times.

Doc profiles Ted Hall, a Manhattan Project physicist (and sometime Chicagoan) who shared atomic bomb secrets, then spent a lifetime dodging the feds.

Michigan State football has extended a scholarship offer to a big-time edge rusher from the Windy City

Some of the city’s favorite restaurants will be showcased at this year’s Taste, Sept. 8-10.

Four days of Lollapalooza, Bruce Springsteen shows at Wrigley Field and the return of Aaron Sorkin’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ are among the week’s highlights.

Check out the homegrown talent at Lollapalooza this year.

Brandon Johnson says his team has made an effort to dissuade young people from wreaking havoc, and it’s paying off. But 40 arrests were made Sunday in the South Loop after groups of teens stormed a convenience store.

Mayor Johnson has not yet offered an alternative stadium site to the Bears if the team is determined to leave Soldier Field. He says he’s using this time for relationship building.

Dozens of kids from an independent immigrant shelter and others in transitional housing trained with coaches from the German professional soccer team as a way of fostering community.