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Chicago mayoral hopefuls clashed over the role school shutdowns had in increased violent crime and accused each other of harming public education during another heated candidate…
A chain reaction wreck that began with a car running a red light ended with a CTA bus plowing into a Far South Side currency exchange…
The Big Apple now has a small bean.Artist Anish Kapoor, who designed the iconic stainless-steel Bean in Millennium Park, finished a strikingly similar sculpture in New…
When Cherilyn Church took the plunge in May and bought a $5,700 sectional from Interior Define, the Chicago-based custom furniture retailer, she envisioned it as a…
U.S. agriculture officials on Friday proposed new nutrition standards for school meals, including the first limits on added sugars, with a focus on sweetened foods such…
Beyoncé has added a second Chicago date to her newly announced “Renaissance” world tour. She now plays Soldier Field July 22-23.Beyoncé first announced the highly anticipated…
Judy Blatherwick and her family put in decades of work restoring their graceful, Italianate wood-frame home in Lincoln Park, but after selling the nearly 150-year-old building…
Takes on some famous names are coming to a city street near you this winter.Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the Department of Streets and Sanitation announced the…
For the past four years, Chicago Ald. Pat Dowell has served as one of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s closest allies on the City Council.But on Friday, Dowell…
Former Chicago Cubs outfielder Jason Heyward and attended a ribbon cutting Thursday for the North Austin Center, a 10-acre campus for education, sports and wellness on…