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Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas outspent Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson by a nearly 2-to-1 margin leading up to Vallas losing in April in…
Chicago’s downtown Greyhound bus station is at risk of closing, and that could have repercussions for low-income travelers and the city’s status as a transportation hub,…
The Feds began tearing down a vacant three-story building on South State Street this week, but preservationists may have stayed the demolition of adjacent, century-old skyscrapers…
Last year at the end of Ramadan, Faiza Siddiqui — like millions of Muslims each year — was waiting intently for the moon sighting announcement determining…
The Teamsters plan to strike at three marijuana retail shops in the Chicago region on the eve of April 20, or 4/20, an informal holiday for…
Grant Park was born with the rather dull name of Lake Park and is informally called Chicago’s “front yard.” But by any name, there’s not a…
Outgoing Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot used a weekly meeting with police leaders Tuesday to demand answers for why officers seemingly struggled to control crowds of young…
The Illinois Democratic Party spent nearly $260,000 on local school and library board races across the state leading up to the April 4 election, but in…
Lincolnwood Elementary School went into a brief lockdown Tuesday after a teacher learned an 8-year-old student had a loaded handgun magazine.The boy had told his teacher…
More than 80,000 festivalgoers attended the inaugural two-day Latino music festival Sueños in Grant Park last year during Memorial Day weekend, which created nearly 1,000 jobs…