Sold at auction this week, the 16-piece Gehry-designed desk might be temporarily loaned to a museum or institution by the new ...

The Chicago Public Schools system is spending nearly twice as much on special education as it did in 2019. Too little state ...

The Chicago Board of Election Commissioners has removed five candidates in the upcoming race for Chicago’s first fully elected school board, including two sitting board members. On Tuesday the board ...

In his new memoir "Fireproof,” Duffy dives deep into his traumatic backstory, his time in Chicago’s top kitchens and where he goes next. Twenty-five years after he first arrived in Chicago to pay his ...

The appearance is timed with the “Star Trek” actor’s forthcoming album on Cleopatra Records that is reported to include ...

“There’s the Langston Hughes era where Black folks are telling America, ‘Hey, we’re here. We’re American.’ We have the Mama Nikki Giovanni era where Black folks are telling Black people, ‘We’re ...

What does the Cook County Board of Review do? The Board of Review holds huge power; it decides on appeals of property tax assessments across the county, which includes about 2 million parcels. The ...

Hazardous wildfire smoke from Canada prompted an air quality alert for most of the Chicago area More than 800 Canadian ...

On Monday, the Northwestern Prison Education Program graduated its second class of 22 students — its first ceremony at Sheridan Correctional Center — as graduates received their bachelor’s degrees ...

Nolan’s star-studded, $250 million adaptation of Homer’s epic poem — the first feature ever shot entirely on IMAX cameras — ...

In 2019, Toniel Taylor was awakened at 4 a.m. by an intruder in her West Side apartment. The assailant, who broke into her home through her window, was a familiar face: an acquaintance who had begun ...

In our monthly public forum, WBEZ listeners get to ask their questions to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. According to a ...