The Latest Breaking News from Chicago

Pitchfork, Heatwave Music Fest, a ‘Devil Wears Prada’ stage musical and the opening of the Ice Cream Museum are among the entertainment highlights in the week ahead.

CHICAGO — Gov. J.B. Pritzker began the week with a White House visit for an event marking the passage of bipartisan gun legislation and will end it Saturday with a speech at a fundraiser for Florida Democrats, further fueling speculation — and criticism — that he’s eyeing a presidential bid…

Hotel industry officials and others say the trends in Chicago are positive despite increases in crime during the pandemic.

R. Kelly has returned to the federal jail in downtown Chicago ahead of his trial on child pornography and obstruction-of-justice charges, just two weeks after the disgraced R&B star was sentenced in New York to 30 years in prison for racketeering and sex trafficking

Yellow Banana operates six Chicago-area Save A Lot stores, and wants to renovate and reopen the shuttered Gresham store. It would retain the Save A Lot name through the same licensing agreement as Yellow Banana’s other stores.

CHICAGO — After being held for more than a year in Brooklyn, Chicago-born R&B star R. Kelly was back at the federal jail in the Loop on Wednesday in advance of his second criminal trial set for next month.

The Bears are trading a seventh-round pick for WR N'Keal Harry, who gets a fresh start in Chicago. Here are our takeaways from the move:

CHICAGO — It was an astonishing coincidence: a Stateville inmate encountering the Cook County state’s attorney, just a day after prosecutors discussed whether his decades-old murder case should be thrown out.

NEW YORK — Pushing 76 years old, not that he looks remotely like it, Elton John is finally coming off the road.