The Latest Breaking News from Chicago

Lady Gaga at Wrigley, the Bud Billiken Parade, Dance for Life and a ‘Zorro’ musical are among the cool things to see and do in the week ahead.

The Brandon Road Lock and Dam project near Chicago is needed to prevent carp from wreaking ecological and economic havoc on the country’s largest source of fresh water.

It's happening again so get ready. After a wildly successful and now legendary event in Miami during 4/20 week, the Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference is coming to Chicago on Sept. 13-14.

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

The mayor expressed “total confidence” in CPD Supt. David Brown and said mayoral challenger Ald. Sophia King and others calling for Brown’s removal sound like people who “don’t know anything about public safety.”

The cast and crew of FX's "Justified" revival experienced another scare this week when an unidentified person ignited an object and threw it toward the set of the TV show, which was filming in the South Loop of Chicago. The object did not explode and no one from the production…

Arlington, Virginia, was the nation’s fittest community for the fifth straight year, the American Fitness Index rankings found. Chicago was No. 10.

Chicago follows behind New York City, several Texas cities and Indianapolis, among others.

CHICAGO — With a community-led movement to evict big-ticket music festivals from Douglass Park gaining steam, Riot Fest management has let go its event organizer and apologized to the community for his “tone” at a neighborhood meeting last week that only seemed to exacerbate the festival’s fraught relationship with residents.