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The 23-member group will be chaired by Mesirow Chairman and CEO Richard Price. Former Chicago Plan Commission Chairman Martin Cabrera, CEO of Cabrera Capital, will serve as so-called "athletic facilities lead."

The hearing was a year-and-a-half in the making, dealing with pretrial motions first filed in August 2020. Burke’s lawyers alleged then that prosecutors withheld crucial information from Chicago’s chief federal judge as they sought to eavesdrop on City Hall phone lines, as well as Burke’s cellphone.

The two-day Sueños Music Festival, set for Memorial Day weekend, is being billed as the largest Latin reggaeton event ever held in Grant Park.

Stalwart of the Chicago scene whose searing guitar playing and sensitive voice helped take the blues in a new direction

Vivianna Lopez, whose husband Pedro Flores was once Chicago’s biggest cocaine trafficker, ‘did not receive immunity’ or ‘a non-prosecution agreement’ to keep her from being prosecuted for laundering drug money, a prosecutor says.

The Ramblers’ guard was the voice behind a documentary recounting one of college basketball’s most impactful moments.

In one of the attacks, a person was shot on the Dan Ryan Expressway on the Near West Side.

Russell Watson was set to star as Billy Flynn at Liverpool's Empire Theatre but understudy Liam Marcelino played the role instead

The phone rang, and it was Arne Duncan on the line. He was on his way to Roseland, he said, in hopes he might help prevent violent retribution for a killing the previous week.

CHICAGO — “Night’s End,” screenwriter and longtime Chicago playwright Brett Neveu’s tale of a dicey exorcism performed in a classic Chicago two-flat, makes its streaming premiere March 31 on Shudder, the horror, thriller and supernatural streaming service of AMC Networks.

CHICAGO — When Armani Nightengale waited in the car last March to get vaccinated against COVID-19 at Chicago's United Center, her husband was more nervous than she was.