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Polar Plunge® Chicago for Special Olympics Illinois presented by Special Children’s Charities is coming up on Sunday, March 1 ...

Former mayor Lori Lightfoot is collecting evidence to hold immigration agents accountable.

The Brasero and El Che Steakhouse teams, as well as Feld, took home two awards at the annual homegrown ceremony.

Lunch in the Loop is about to get a bit more exciting as chef Charlie McKenna is opening Fatback Butcher, a sandwich ...

When the temperature drops, John and Amy bundle up and head to particular spots across Chicago, whether for the cozy ...

Featuring child-approved museums, meals, decor, jokes, parks, and more — plus other sage advice for grownups ...

This year marks a quarter century since the closing of Medusa’s, Chicago’s most famous all-ages nightclub. Named after its gloriously coiffed owner, airline-employee-turned-impresario Dave “Medusa” ...

Mary Kellerman, a 12-year-old from Schaumburg, wakes up feeling sick. Her parents keep her home from school, and she takes some Tylenol. She was the first victim. Our office was notified, but there ...

The performance measures were based on data obtained from the Illinois State Board of Education for the 2022–23 school year, the most recent available. Calculations were done by the research nonprofit ...

Goodman is from St. Louis, so how did he deliver an authentic Great Lakes accent as patriarch of an exurban Chicago family. (Lanford, Illinois, is said to be based on Elgin.) Fun linguistic fact: the ...

From March 1945, the only known image of Richard Riccardo and the deep-dish pizza he created. Chicago deep-dish pizza was first created at Pizzeria Uno, and its essence lies in its distinctive crust.