World Alzheimer’s Day aims to raise awareness about the disease and challenge stigma. Alzheimer’s is the most common form of ...

Chaka Khan — an 11-time Grammy winner and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee with a song preserved in the Library of Congress ...

Following several reports of a strange, winged creature around the Chicago area, we try to find out what the heck is going on. Editor’s note: This story originally published in 2019. Listen to the kid ...

What if, the former trapeze artist thought, a show could be fashioned, knitted together, from the moments in life when a ...

Without the Northbrook Public Library, Krewella may have never happened. “It was an embassy of music for us and an incredible ...

Behind the Chicago Transit Authority’s massive Skokie facility stand several dozen of the agency’s best bus drivers. Their uniforms are freshly ironed and their gaze is focused on the parking lot in ...

The candidate backed by the Chicago Teachers Union opposes school closures. Two are open to closing schools, but only after ...

The fest opens with an acclaimed A24 comedy-drama and closes with a music-themed film starring Pedro Pascal. There will also ...

Five years ago, the TEAACH Act made Illinois the first state to require public schools to teach Asian American history. WBEZ ...

More people are waiting in line to access higher education inside Illinois prisons. The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate Wednesday for the first time since 2023 in an effort to curb ...

The Northwest Neighborhood Alliance built and placed benches at two Ukrainian Village bus stops without existing benches.

In 2026, WBEZ talked to Chicago-area educators, students and lawmakers about the TEAACH Act to see how the law has taken ...