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Welcome back to another season of Chicago Bears football at Soldier Field.No, there’s no dome yet (but here’s what that would look like). And no, we…
Moments after a noontime storm briefly extinguished the power at Rolling Meadows High School, English teacher Junior Sanchez remained calm in his classroom, leading a passionate…
Sitting under a tree on the grass next to a hotel in a southwest suburb of Chicago, several migrant families from Venezuela were talking, still wondering…
A series of political mailings that resemble newspapers and excoriate Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker over crime issues has prompted the governor to claim they’re the work…
For nearly a century, millions of words poured from the confines of the Tribune Tower in stories about crooked politicians, murderous lovers, civic giants, sports heroes,…
Inside the Red Lion Pub in the heart of Lincoln Park on Thursday, owner Colin Cordwell played the British song “Land of Hope and Glory” on…
After months of pushback from neighbors of Bally’s proposed casino site along the Chicago River, Mayor Lori Lightfoot Thursday unveiled a 19-member advisory group to “allow…
The former CEO of Urban Prep Academies — a celebrated Chicago charter school network that specifically serves Black male teens — says in new court documents…
A gun rights organization has filed a lawsuit against Highland Park that targets the city’s nearly decade-old assault weapons ban, alleging, in the wake of the…
An R. Kelly fan who has been blogging about the disgraced singer’s ongoing criminal trial was arrested by Chicago police Thursday after another fan accused her…