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The first ‘You Name a Snowplow’ contest in the city is underway, allowing residents to vote for their favorite names. In the running: ‘Plowcasso,” and ‘Sears Plower’

The show, with a score by legendary composer John Kander, book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, and lyrics by Ebb, has remarkable staying power.

A social media post by the Chicago dog rescue that saved him from the city’s pound goes viral.

You can order all manner of exotic beverages at Chicago restaurants. But not nonalcoholic wine. Why?

CHICAGO — Filmmaker and University of Illinois Chicago film professor Jennifer Reeder’s fourth feature, “Perpetrator,” is described this way in the program of the Berlin International Film Festival, where the thriller makes its world premiere:

Mayor Lori Lightfoot had requested $53.5 million from legislators from Chicago after the state said it would cut off fiscal support for migrants. The bill heads to the governor.

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has lost the financial advantage her campaign had over most opponents as her campaign spent twice as much as she raised during the last three months of 2022 while she launched expensive television ads aimed at rebuilding momentum in her bid for reelection.

CHICAGO — Jim Bouton’s “Ball Four,” a tell-all book by the former knuckleballer as he struggled through the 1969 season, is regarded as a classic piece of baseball literature.