Democrats swept control of Congress last week, winning at least 54 Senate seats and at least 254 House seats, according to ...

In 2019, after three successive years of Halloween being marred by rowdy and rebellious teenager activity that today would be labeled a “takeover,” I launched CollaBOOration, a grassroots response to ...

James Goss Jr., a 14-year-old 8th grader at Bouchet Elementary Math and Science Academy in South Shore, wins the Chicago Park ...

Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker was elected to a rare third term as Illinois governor Tuesday, vanquishing Republican Darren ...

Jones’ essay in late September about sending her Black daughter to segregated New York City schools, she recognized something ...

Here's what's going on in and around Hyde Park this week.

Jessica Biggs won Chicago's first citywide election for school board president Tuesday, defeating Hilario Dominguez and ...

On an unseasonably warm fall afternoon, voters milled around the Nichols Park Fieldhouse polling site at 1355 E. 53rd St., a ...

Like voters across Chicago, Syd Tomlinson has seen lots of different campaign materials for Chicago’s school board election: ...

Democrats once again cruised to an easy sweep of statewide offices Tuesday night as the party gained ground across the nation ...

Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton, who just over a decade ago was a South Side mother serving on the Kenwood Academy local school ...

When I read that “Dead Girl's Quinceañera” was Phanésia Pharel's first full-length play and that she wrote it while she was ...