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

Hailey Weathers likes to spend her summers playing volleyball in the sand with her friends at Chicago’s beaches, taking breaks in between games with dips in Lake Michigan. But sometimes the ...

Like that kid at your high school who was somehow always a step ahead of everyone else in listening to the next cool band, Chicago theater audiences recently have been given plenty of opportunities to ...

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

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

But the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago says it’s more likely artificial intelligence will lead to job changes, not necessarily job loss. What everyone agrees on is that Americans are very worried ...

Chicago faces — and braces — for another new year. What will 2026 bring architecturally? Here’s my annual look at the year ahead. The centerpiece of the Obama Presidential Center will be the 225-foot ...

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

From school assemblies to “Mr. Rogers Neighborhood,” Ella Jenkins was a rhythm specialist and children’s music pioneer. Her childhood in Chicago was her launching pad. In our last episode, we learned ...

As schools gear up to welcome students back to class this month, they’ll also have to come up with an idea of how to use – or ...

The guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics comes before any federal agencies release their own guidelines for the ...