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Byline: Conor Dougherty and Jamie Kelter Davis A decade ago, the city - and all of Michigan - had too many houses. Now it has a shortage. The shift there [...]

A decade ago, the city -- and all of Michigan -- had too many houses. Now it has a shortage. The shift there explains today's costly housing market in the [...]

Byline: Benjamin Mullin and Jamie Kelter Davis The funniest writers at The Onion shuffled through dozens of news stories at a meeting last week, trying to discern which headline would [...]

As tens of thousands of delegates and guests arrive for the Democratic National Convention, they will encounter a sight familiar to Chicagoans but startling to most out-of-towners: clusters of migrants [...]

As tens of thousands of delegates and guests arrive for the Democratic National Convention, they will encounter a sight familiar to Chicagoans but startling to most out-of-towners: clusters of migrants [...]

About 50,000 people are expected in the nation's third-largest city for the Democrats' convention. Some Chicagoans are thrilled. Others are skipping town. Workers rushed around in the shadow of the [...]

About 50,000 people are expected in the nation’s third-largest city for the Democrats’ convention. Some Chicagoans are thrilled. Others are fleeing town. Workers rushed around in the shadow of the [...]

The funniest writers at The Onion shuffled through dozens of news stories at a meeting last week, trying to discern which headline would make readers laugh harder. ''Next Up: 911 [...]

We spoke to them about why they feel like their votes, while important, don't seem to translate into the type of change they want to see in their daily lives. […]

While serving time in a Wisconsin prison in 2021, Darnell Price watched a golf-ball-size lump on his thigh grow as large as a football. Mr. Price pressed for a thorough […]

While serving time in a Wisconsin prison in 2021, Darnell Price watched a golf-ball-size lump on his thigh grow as large as a football. Mr. Price pressed for a thorough [...]

This article is part of our Pets special section on scientists' growing interest in our animal companions. Amy Conroy sat alone in a veterinary exam room, hands clutching a water [...]

This article is part of our https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/pets on scientists’ growing interest in our animal companions. Amy Conroy sat alone in a veterinary exam room, hands clutching a water bottle, eyes [...]

When pro-Palestinian protesters put up tents on a University of Chicago quad early last week, administrators initially took a permissive view. But that changed on Friday when the university's president, [...]

The university has presented itself as a national model for free expression on campus. Its president said that the encampment “cannot continue.” Police officers removed the pro-Palestinian protest encampment at [...]

Galvanized by an Israeli military incursion into Gaza’s southern end, pro-Palestinian demonstrators escalated campus protests and urged supporters to rally on Tuesday across the United States, thwarting university officials’ hopes [...]

Byline: Julie Bosman and Jamie Kelter Davis As the third graders of Cumberland Elementary in the Chicago suburbs colored, clipped and glued paper to make cicadas with filmy wings, they [...]

Police officers removed the pro-Palestinian protest encampment at the University of Chicago early Tuesday, a move that was sure to be closely watched across higher education because the university has [...]

The University of Chicago has built a brand around the idea that its students should be unafraid to encounter ideas or opinions they disagree with. To drum that in, the [...]

The University of Chicago has built a brand around the idea that its students should be https://news.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/Dear_Class_of_2020_Students.pdf to encounter ideas or opinions they disagree with. To drum that in, the [...]

As the third graders of Cumberland Elementary in the Chicago suburbs colored, clipped and glued paper to make cicadas with filmy wings, they confided their fears about what is about [...]

Yee Leng Xiong, a 29-year-old nonprofit executive, has been an elected official in Wisconsin since he was a teenager. From a north central county known for ginseng farming and downhill [...]

Yee Leng Xiong, a 29-year-old nonprofit executive, has been an elected official in Wisconsin since he was a teenager. From a north central county known for ginseng farming and downhill [...]

Cuando el reverendo John Trout escuchó que el papa Francisco quería conocer la opinión de distintas parroquias durante el proceso de preparación de una importante https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/world/europe/pope-francis-synod.html con el objetivo de [...]

Byline: Ruth Graham and Jamie Kelter Davis When the Rev. John Trout heard that Pope Francis wanted feedback from parishes before a major Vatican gathering this month on the church's [...]

When the Rev. John Trout heard that Pope Francis wanted feedback from parishes before a major Vatican gathering this month on the church's future, he decided that his suburban Chicago [...]

The family of Wadea Al-Fayoume remembered him at a funeral in suburban Chicago. The man accused in the boy's death appeared in court. At the front of an Illinois mosque, [...]

The family of Wadea Al-Fayoume remembered him at a funeral in suburban Chicago. The man accused in the boy’s death appeared in court. At the front of an Illinois mosque, [...]

Prisoners locked in their cells for days on end report walls speckled with feces and blood. Birds have moved in, leaving droppings on the food trays and ice bags handed [...]

Byline: Raymond Zhong and Jamie Kelter Davis Underneath downtown Chicago's soaring Art Deco towers, its multilevel roadways and its busy subway and rail lines, the land is sinking, and not [...]

Underneath downtown Chicago's soaring Art Deco towers, its multilevel roadways and its busy subway and rail lines, the land is sinking, and not only for the reasons you might expect. [...]

Underneath downtown Chicago’s soaring Art Deco towers, its multilevel roadways and its busy subway and rail lines, the land is sinking, and not only for the reasons you might expect. [...]

Byline: Ernesto Londoño, Azeen Ghorayshi and Jamie Kelter Davis Fight or Flight: Transgender Care Bans Leave Families and Doctors Scrambling David and Wendy Batchelder hate the thought of putting their [...]

Fight or Flight: Transgender Care Bans Leave Families and Doctors Scrambling David and Wendy Batchelder hate the thought of putting their spacious house in West Des Moines, Iowa, on the [...]

On a rainy holiday weekend, the city of Chicago and the sport of NASCAR celebrated the unlikeliest of marriages with a lakefront ceremony. Chicago handled the decorations, with its soaring [...]

On a rainy holiday weekend, the city of https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/us/nascar-chicago-street-race.html celebrated the unlikeliest of marriages with a lakefront ceremony. Chicago handled the decorations, with its soaring skyscrapers as the backdrop, as [...]

Byline: Cara Buckley and Jamie Kelter Davis MENOMINEE COUNTY, Wis. - Amid the sprawling farmlands of northeast Wisconsin, the Menominee forest feels like an elixir, and a marvel. Its trees [...]

MENOMINEE COUNTY, Wis. -- Amid the sprawling farmlands of northeast Wisconsin, the Menominee forest feels like an elixir, and a marvel. Its trees press in, towering and close, softening the [...]

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/04/04/us/chicago-mayor-runoff CHICAGO — Chicago is known as a city of neighborhoods, a sprawling metropolis divided into distinctive pockets defined by their own architecture, restaurants, languages, ballparks and beaches. But this [...]

CHICAGO -- Chicago is known as a city of neighborhoods, a sprawling metropolis divided into distinctive pockets defined by their own architecture, restaurants, languages, ballparks and beaches. But this is [...]

Byline: Emily Baumgaertner and Jamie Kelter Davis A drastic and unusually early spike in the respiratory infection is swamping pediatric units across the United States, causing long waits for treatment [...]

A drastic and unusually early spike in the respiratory infection is swamping pediatric units across the United States, causing long waits for treatment and worries about winter. A pediatrician in [...]

Byline: Kim Bellware and Jamie Kelter Davis CHICAGO - Principal Anna Cirilli remembers the first Ukrainian refugee who showed up at her school, a week after Russia invaded Ukraine. The [...]

Most public schools in Chicago were closed for a third day on Friday, with no resolution in sight to a standoff between the teachers' union in the nation's third-largest school [...]

Thea article reports on the Waupun Correctional institution, a maximum-security prison in southeast Wisconsin, that remains on lockdown. It discusses possible reasons for the restrictions including staffing shortages for positions such as correctional officers and sargeants, overwork and underpayment. It reveals the lack of basic services in the prison, loss of educational opportunities for inmates, and inadequacy of medical attention.