The proposed department would replace the mayor’s Office of Community Safety and coordinate city efforts to respond to gun ...

Zoo staff members are breeding thousands of tadpoles to ship to Puerto Rico in an effort to save from extinction the island’s ...

Years ago, the Puerto Rican Crested Toad Conservancy tapped the suburban Chicago zoo to breed thousands of tadpoles, but ...

When a top aide to former Mayor Lori Lightfoot left his job in 2023, a taxpayer-owned painting disappeared from his City Hall ...

More than 58,000 Chicagoans experienced homelessness in 2024, according to a new report from the Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness. The new data reveals homelessness in the city is more widespread ...

The former president and first lady read "Where the Wild Things Are" to students from William H. Ray Elementary School. The ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration says it will spend more than $520 million to fix homes and the sewer infrastructure ...

With the Obama Presidential Center set to open this week, the Chicago Sun-Times is answering some of the most frequently ...

Attendees like Stephen Colbert and LaShawn Ford donned taupe, recalling the 2014 controversy when pundits mocked it as ...

School is out for the summer, so we invited everyone and their kids to the studio. It’s Friends and Family Day at WBEZ! So we ...

Former presidents and a slew of celebrities will be on hand in Jackson Park for the grand opening of the Obama Presidential ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to rule by early July on whether babies born in the U.S. to immigrant parents without legal or ...