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Danielle Deadwyler makes powerful choices as Chicago’s Mamie Till-Mobley, especially in the intense courthouse sequence.

It should be a neighborhood with more clout considering its size and its being home to the largest Hispanic population in Chicago. But adding to the confusion for residents, Belmont Cragin is divided among multiple wards and state representative districts, meaning residents living near one another…

A specialist in plastic waste management, artists, musicians, computer scientists, and a poet-ornithologist who advocates for Black people in nature are among this year’s 25 winners of the John D

A University of Chicago professor, a cellist and an artist are among the latest recipients of the MacArthur Foundation “genius grants.”

The last time these two teams met was in prime time, and it didn't go well for Washington.

A 17-year-old boy was shot to death in South Shore, blocks from an elementary school. Later in the day, a man was killed blocks away.

Midge Laurin mailed a $30 check that was intercepted, rewritten and cashed to someone else for $9,475. The scheme leaves many victims struggling for months to recover their losses.

Two weeks ago, Jaboukie Young-White, the 28-year-old “Daily Show” comedian, actor and FBI antagonist, released a virtuosically filthy club track, “BBC.” Rest assured, the title’s acronym isn’t an ode to British television. But his debut single (for Interscope Records, no less) is a genuinely adept slice of early ‘90s Chicago…

CHICAGO -- Michael Kutza did not build any of the dozens of skyscrapers he can see from his apartment on the top floor of the downtown high rise in which he lives. But what he accomplished as the founder and energetic director of the Chicago International Film Festival has helped…