Start working on those summer plans. Chicago Public School students will likely enjoy their typical amount of summer vacation days after last year’s shortened break, according to proposed academic ...

Laura Murillo’s arrest last fall represented a rupture for Chicago’s immigrant community and in the life she had built around ...

More than a thousand teens signed up at the South Side YMCA alone. Teens there are playing basketball, lifting weights or ...

From Flock cameras to Ring doorbells, surveillance permeates everyday life in America. Say More ask listeners if these technologies make them feel safer, and if not, what steps people are taking to ...

Broadway is no longer the sole marker of a show’s success, as the trajectory of productions such as ‘The Notebook’ and ‘Illinoise’ show.

Dozens of non-law enforcement personnel trained to intervene in violence and mental health crises are expected to start riding trains next month on the CTA Red, Blue and Green lines. The Chicago ...

One of the world’s largest scuba organizations was founded in the suburbs. Local scuba divers carry on the legacy.

The $150,000 award will help St. Mark A.M.E. Zion Church's congregation create a plan to preserve the unique 53-year-old ...

The new additions, four females expected early Thursday morning, will increase the aquarium’s total beluga population to 16.

As my WBEZ colleague Esther Yoon-Ji Kang reports, the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act allows renters in some districts to band together to try to buy their building if it goes up for sale. While ...

The bobolink spotted in Illinois this spring is a gynandromorph, meaning it is both genetically male and female.

The American Red Cross has declared a severe blood shortage in the U.S. as supplies fall to its lowest levels since the pandemic. An uptick in extreme weather and a decrease in donors are some of the ...