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After months of planning, weeks of disruption and an 11th-hour push to complete the transformation of Grant Park into a pop-up NASCAR track, ready or not, the inaugural Chicago Street Race has arrived.

Here's a look at the Bears' current projected depth chart less than a month out from training camp.

Frank Coconate was an authentic anti-Daley gadfly who talked to reporters and refused to be just another ‘yes-man’ from the precincts. He died recently at age 65.

Can this weekend’s race deliver the thrill of a Cutlass Classic falling from Marina Towers, or a Porsche fleeing Guido the Killer Pimp?

U.S. District Judge John Kness, a Trump appointee, had told a man he was sentencing, “I feel in danger every single day when I drive on the expressway . . . . because of people like you who have absolutely no respect for the law.”

As the NASCAR drivers take to Chicago’s streets, we remember other times this city has opened its roadways to provide a venue for national and local sports events.

After Brian Wallach was diagnosed with ALS, he and his wife Sandra Abrevaya threw themselves into advocating for patients. Everyone up to President Biden took notice.

As Canadian wildfire smoke blanketed Chicago on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Windy City earned the unwelcome distinction of having the “worst air quality of any major city in the world,” according to federal Air Quality Index readings. Authorities issued warnings instructing residents to stay indoors if possible or don masks…

‘Unhealthy’ air quality was recorded in New York and Chicago on Thursday