An investigation is underway after a 24-year-old man was shot and killed by Illinois State Police in Woodlawn last Wednesday ...

When the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” passed last July, millions of U.S. residents were put at risk of losing access to ...

The death of former House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie has prompted remembrances in Hyde Park and across Illinois.

When a scheduled musician cannot perform, it is interesting to observe the resourcefulness of those who must make new ...

Beyond nutrition, the store served as a social and economic anchor. It was a place where neighbors ran into one another, where small, everyday interactions strengthened the fabric of the community.

Hundreds of volunteers from across Chicago and the suburbs fanned out across South Side parks over the weekend for the first ...

In his program notes for Chicago Shakespeare Theater's production of “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” director Phillip Breen ...

A social media-promoted “teen takeover” on 53rd Street Tuesday evening was met with scores of parents, teachers and violence ...

University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno is pushing to build a $50 million science center in Washington Park, ...

As we all look forward to warmer weather, the East Hyde Park Neighborhood Coalition is asking you to support a moratorium on ...

This week I read program notes that described the performances of the artists I was hearing as representing “a unique coming ...

"As a photographer my work is influenced by my family's migratory history with them having been part of the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural south to the urban north in the U.S. in ...