Chicago Park District data shows how much costs for day camps fell in 2020 and how they've steadily risen back to ...

The maple and spruce violin was a gift from Cyrus Spurlock's older brother, who crafted it himself. Spurlock was sitting on a ...

Between changes at the National Endowment for the Humanities and a shake-up at Chicago’s DCASE, humanities organizations are ...

A nearly three-year upswing ended last summer, WBEZ finds. The first three months of 2025 had the fewest robberies of any ...

Joe Biden’s remarks on Tuesday in Chicago marked his first public rebuttal of the Trump administration in the early days of ...

The claims are part of the Justice Department's lawsuit against the city, county and state challenging sanctuary policies.

From barbershops to bakeries, business owners are worried about how they'll sustain themselves in the coming months.

Folk music became popular with youth in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. As alcohol-free third spaces, coffeehouses were key to that ...

Trying to force your will to break the spirit of working people in order to have a conversation — that’s terrorism. And we’re ...

Author Ashlee Piper’s newest book “No New Things” teaches you how you can save your money and the planet in 30 days.

The creation of our park system is the envy [...] the world,” says Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, the new head of the Chicago Park ...

The contract is the CTU’s first without a strike or a strike vote in 15 years. The agreement sets lower class size limits, ...