On a cold morning back in January, I walked along the railroad viaduct that buffers 16th Street in Pilsen. Today the embankment is best known for its two miles of colorful murals, primarily between ...

If you follow our real estate coverage, you've probably come across the work of the turn-of-the-century architect Howard Van Doren Shaw. There was his Kenwood mansion—"the architecture is 'oh my god ...

Thirteen-year-old Eli Coustan from Evanston succeeded where adults with more than a year to prepare failed: He created ILVaccine.org, a database that pulls in open COVID-19 shot appointments from all ...

All we really require from our city’s pro athletes is that they help their teams win. But it doesn’t hurt when they also love being here — and get what makes us tick. In his first season with the Cubs ...

Who says poetry is for sad sacks sighing over their diaries or delicate flowers musing obscurely about actual flowers? Not the poets at Giggle Hour! Cofounder Kailah “KP” Peters explains: “There is a ...

Here’s one of the first things comedian and filmmaker Bobcat Goldthwait learned when he moved to the western suburbs in 2020 after living in Los Angeles for 35 years: “I’m thin in the Midwest.” Or so ...

Here is a list of some of Chicago’s least-known residents: Eva Dina Delgado. Lakesia Collins. Frances Ann Hurley. Lindsey LaPointe. Lamont J. Robinson Jr. Cristina H. Pacione-Zayas. You’ve probably ...

In the summer of 2015, Jitu Brown, president of the Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization, led a 34-day hunger strike to pressure the Chicago Board of Education to reopen Dyett High School, one of 50 ...