Search

The baseball team tied the modern day record for losses on Sunday, dropping a 120th game. In the team's most loyal neighborhood, some people couldn't bear to watch. It was [...]

Byline: David Maraniss CHICAGO - The Ukrainian Village, a neighborhood nestled only a mile north and slight jog west of the United Center, where Democrats are convening this week, is [...]

Once the panel is established, it will have about a year to determine what reparations should look like in the city. The mayor of Chicago signed an executive order on [...]

Byline: Aydali Campa, Borderless Magazine This story is part of a collaborative reporting project led by the Institute for Nonprofit News and including Borderless Magazine, Cicero Independiente and Inside Climate [...]

Bert Fox and David Pickett bounced around rental apartments for almost a decade in Andersonville, a neighborhood on the North Side of Chicago known for its 19th-century rowhouses and quirky [...]

Chicago voters will consider a ballot measure on Tuesday that progressive Democrats see as a solution to homelessness. The proposal would allow the City Council to increase real estate tax [...]

Byline: Jonathan Edwards Chicago is teeming with tourist attractions - the Bean at Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Riverwalk, Wrigley Field - the list could go on and on. But [...]

The buses packed with Venezuelan migrants are now arriving in downtown Chicago day and night, doubling in number in recent weeks. City officials are struggling to open more shelters, while [...]

Concerns about gun violence at large public events leave some contemplating safety measures or even staying home. Luca and Lennyn Fantasia, ages 7 and 5, were bouncing around the Park [...]

On a humid holiday weekend, two proud but sometimes misunderstood Americans, Chicago and NASCAR, celebrated their unlikeliest of marriages with a lakefront ceremony. Chicago handled the decorations, with its soaring [...]

Byline: Marissa J. Lang CHICAGO - In a windowless room, across the street from the muddy maw of earth that will soon mark the legacy of President Barack Obama, lifelong [...]

For recipients, it's a lifeline. For liberal supporters, it shows how expanding government can make a difference. For conservatives, it's a return to wasteful welfare handouts. CHICAGO -- Christopher Ellington's [...]

Byline: Michael Laris Drivers in many U.S. cities were stuck in traffic far longer in 2022 than the year before, with time-savings tied to the pandemic dissipating but not disappearing [...]

Byline: Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, May 10, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Living with the potential for gun violence takes a â[euro]oecumulative physiological tollâ[euro] on people in Chicago and across [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Jim Bachor travels across the country filling potholes for a living. He doesn't just fill the unsightly road gaps with cement, he actually turns them into art [...]

Byline: Suzette Hackney But what about Chicago? ABOUT THIS SERIES This is part of a series by USA TODAY Opinion about police accountability and building safer communities. The project began [...]

Byline: Tim Carman If you've watched 'The Bear,' you know that Carmen Berzatto, the youngest son of the family whom everyone calls Carmy, had a complicated relationship with his late [...]

CHICAGO -- Before leaving the city for graduate school, Heidi Ratanavanich got a shoulder tattoo of a Chicago-style hot dog. Painterly and bright, the tattoo depicts a poppy-seed bun cradling [...]

Byline: Robert Klemko CHICAGO -- No new counseling resources are being launched on this city's impoverished South Side, even after a man was shot to death in broad daylight, feet [...]

Byline: Timothy Bella Shortly after Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, D, announced that the city would provide an additional $500,000 to increase access to abortion care, the mayor vowed Monday that [...]

Byline: Richard Mertens Special contributor Abstract: As grassroots groups look for new ways to prevent crime, they are focusing not only on at-risk individuals but increasingly on entire neighborhoods. Shawn [...]

Byline: Leigh Giangreco If Chicagoans are known for their Midwestern modesty, then Shermann 'Dilla' Thomas is an outlier. While national news outlets seem fixated on the city's gun violence and [...]

The labor union, in an effort to force a switch to remote learning, voted to stay home from classrooms on Wednesday. The city responded by calling off instruction altogether. CHICAGO [...]

Byline: Richard Morgan CHICAGO - Last year, this city's Boystown gayborhood faced a racial reckoning after one bar owner tried to ban rap music and others were accused of oppressive [...]

In this city so protective of its traditions, a new generation of cooks is creating fresh variations on a deliciously soggy sandwich. CHICAGO -- Do you like your Italian beef [...]