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Chicago will be filled with the sound of music this summer courtesy of some familiar, free city-sponsored festivals.

A teen was killed and four others were wounded in the Back of the Yards shooting. Hours later, six people were shot when an argument broke out between groups live-streaming in Jackson Park.

CHICAGO -- Spanish was rarely spoken at home while Luis Eduardo Sanchez was growing up in the early 2000s. He attended a predominantly white elementary and middle school in suburban Illinois. Despite being a son of a Mexican immigrant father and a Chicana mother, he recalls not feeling comfortable embracing…

Tetsuya "Ted" Fujita, aka “Mr. Tornado,” created the scale for ranking the severest storms. 

“We want people to put their guns down. We need these criminals to suffer consequences,” one victim’s relative said at a rally Tuesday.

The hazardous biking conditions on Milwaukee Avenue illustrate a much larger problem: the lack of an overall safe bike network. Ten years ago, the city created a plan to remedy this, but many of the goals have not been realized.

Biden arrives in Illinois hours after the April inflation numbers are released and the White House is braced for grim news.

Chicago immigration advocates Tuesday rallied around Octaviano Ortiz and his family as he faces a looming deadline to leave the country after an appeal on his deportation order was recently denied.

The attack was the first of two mass shootings five hours apart on the South Side. The second occurred about five miles away in Jackson Park and wounded six people. By day’s end, at least 21 people were shot across Chicago.