The fest's first day Friday offered a packed schedule of overlapping headliners, a wide range of local bands and likely the ...

A line of cars sits in the new Riot Fest parking lot near Douglass Park on Sept. 18, 2026. Credit: Giacomo Cain/Block Club Chicago DOUGLASS PARK — Riot Fest announced in August that this year that it ...

ICE's own rules require reports every time an agent uses force. But the agency says it can't find any from its attacks on protesters on Sept. 19, 2025.

The city issued a cease-and-desist notice after a fight prompted a large police response in August. Neighbors had previously ...

Darreon Plummer, 33, shot and killed OEMC employee Da’J Flowers in their West Rogers Park apartment in February, then fled Illinois and assumed a false identity before he was arrested this week, ...

Immigration advocates have pressed Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke to probe the actions of federal immigration agents during Operation Midway Blitz.

The 6,000-seat venue is expected to open in 2028 as part of the $7 billion development next to the United Center, with space for restaurants, retail and public gathering areas.

City inspectors found "over 500" rat droppings at the Wicker Park eatery last month. It has since passed a follow-up inspection and was cleared to reopen.

Hundreds packed a community meeting Thursday, with residents and elected officials pressing the railroad over its proposed $900 million maintenance facility through the two neighborhoods.

The Norwood Park Historical Society is raising money to save the Noble-Seymour-Crippen House, which is the oldest existing house in Chicago.

The week kicked off with Mayor Brandon Johnson official joining the crowded mayoral race. Here’s what Block Club reporters and photographers captured while covering ...

Fifteen U.S. citizens and legal residents alleging excessive force, wrongful detainment and other harms at the hands of federal immigration agents during last year’s Operation Midway Blitz have taken ...