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The 12-day treat for cinephiles — this year boasting 94 features and 56 shorts — kicks off Wednesday with its first opening night block party.

British born basketball star Ben Gordon played for the Chicago Bulls, Detroit Pistons, Charlotte Bobcats and Orlando Magic in a distinguished 11 year NBA career

If you have rampant retail theft, expect stores to close, and the stores that remain to significantly increase their prices in order to make up for these retail thefts.

But airport operations unaffected in intrusions that targeted New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles airports as well.

Open House Chicago runs Oct. 15-16. The free, yearly event opens up more than 150 architecturally interesting buildings in over 20 Chicago neighborhoods and suburban Evanston and Oak Park.

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

CHICAGO — During the height of the pandemic, 4 in 10 Americans misled others about their COVID-19 status or their adherence to public health measures designed to prevent the spread of the virus, according to a study published Monday in JAMA Network Open, a journal of the Chicago-based American Medical…

MARION, Ill. — Stumping for votes in conservative southern Illinois, Republican governor hopeful Darren Bailey took the same stage as Donald Trump Jr. on Saturday night, with the former president’s son encouraging those in attendance to back Bailey while Bailey stuck to his campaign speech and didn’t publicly acknowledge the…

Eve L. Ewing’s collection of poems is adapted for the stage by J. Nicole Brooks in a powerhouse production at Steppenwolf Theatre.