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Chicago is a major food town, from pricey fine dining to modest neighborhood joints that hit the spot, and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen the sweaty, cacophonous kitchen dynamics of the latter so richly and lovingly portrayed as they are in “The Bear,” a darkly comedic drama that…

A 15-year-old boy was seriously wounded after he was struck by a bullet that went through the window of a Chatham home.

The police sergeant was in Jackson Park on June 11 when Joshua Hudson, 21, struck him with a stolen vehicle, police said.

A coalition of former and current service members is holding the first-ever conference for Black veterans in the nation’s capital Thursday

A woman's viral tweet exposed the inefficiencies in Chicago's public housing. Jeanette Taylor, now an alderwoman for the city, is pushing for change.

As Mike Matheny and Darryl Kile rode to the airport for a Chicago flight, they talked about life, and they talked about death.

“We are living in a challenging time, but we are up for the challenge,” the former congresswoman from Arizona told supporters Wednesday.

CHICAGO — Starting next school year, dress code policies at Chicago’s public schools can no longer ban head coverings tied to race, ethnicity or hair texture, a change approved without discussion Wednesday by the Chicago Board of Education.

Pravda Records remains one of Chicago’s longest-running, most indefatigable indie imprints.

The Pride Parade, the Logan Square Art Festival and Trombone Shorty’s Voodoo Threauxdown are among the things to do in Chicago in the week ahead.

O’Donnell’s case is among the most high-profile to result from the rioting and looting that took place here in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. Its notoriety is due in large part to the jarring images of a man in a clown mask amid the chaos that day.