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 ...

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 ...

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

As Flock cameras continue to crop up nationwide, we ask listeners if surveillance technologies make them feel safer.

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 ...

Thousands of immigrant students who attended high school in Illinois may soon have to pay more expensive out-of-state tuition rates for college — a change that could jeopardize their access to higher ...

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

Mitch Einhorn, co-owner of Lush Wine & Spirits, was floored this spring when a city inspector showed up at his Roscoe Village cafe and told him to take down the strings of decorative white lights ...

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 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 ...