"It's an icon for the city," said Gary Stoltz of R2 Companies, which is redeveloping the Rector Building where the sign is ...

Gov. JB Pritzker and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin want President Donald Trump to put money where his mouth is on a massive project to help stop invasive carp from entering the Great Lakes — a project the ...

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

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

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

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

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

Chicago’s inaugural poet laureate makes his Lyric mainstage debut with, “safronia,” loosely based on his family’s own Great Migration story. Inside Chicago’s grand Lyric Opera House, world-class ...

Last week, at least 20 people were arrested by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Chicago, and another 17 people ...

The museum was renamed in 2024 to highlight megadonor Ken Griffin. Its original founder did not want to put his own name on ...

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

They create a spectacular gateway onto a broad, beautiful beach loved and crowded for generations, even before this structure ...