Chicago Public Schools had planned to furlough staff for five days to save money in the upcoming school year. After facing ...

Chicago is facing another lawsuit alleging the city is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act, this time concerning ...

Every day that Chicago Public Schools goes without much-delayed property tax revenue, the school district is paying $220,000 in interest on short-term loans it took out to make payroll — that’s the ...

Jordan Stancil, the new owner of Chicago’s 400 Theater in Rogers Park, was raised in the movie business. His great-grandfather started a small empire of theaters in northern Michigan. As a teenager ...

The first and last time the City Council passed a sweeping renters rights ordinance was in 1986. Ronald Reagan was president, Stevie Wonder and Lionel Richie were atop the Billboard 100 chart, and the ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson plans to introduce a sweeping ordinance that aims to protect the city’s renters from eviction and predatory practices. The “Protecting Renters Ordinance” seeks to update the city ...

A new law in Illinois requires hospitals to file more financial information with state regulators, giving them a deeper look into whether medical centers are struggling. But these records will be ...

David Byrne stands in a room with an awkward amount of doors, most of which don’t actually lead anywhere. “We’re taking the route the audience would take,” Byrne explains. “I’m not spoiling too much, ...

In the same way that our methods of music discovery continue to evolve, so do the ways musicians work to be discovered. Ahead of this year’s Lollapalooza, WBEZ contributor and illustrative journalist ...

Promontory Point, a 40-acre bulb poking eastward into Lake Michigan at 55th Street, is a deliberately picturesque piece of ...

When the American Israel Public Affairs Committee reached out to Democratic congressional candidate Jeff Cohen in November, he was open to talking about the group’s potential support in his run for ...

The 8200 block of West Summerdale Avenue in Norwood Park isn’t exactly an address most people want to punch into their GPS. From 1972 to 1978, it was the site where 33 young men and boys tragically ...