Members of the 2nd Police District Council condemned federal immigration enforcement operations in nearby neighborhoods during Tuesday night’s meeting, calling raids that have detained dozens in the ...

On a recent sunny Sunday afternoon, artist Theaster Gates spied the old St. Laurence Elementary School bell across the school yard. Stepping away from the speaker’s podium, Gates exclaimed, “I am ...

The White House on Friday froze $2.1 billion in federal funding for Chicago infrastructure projects in the latest move ...

(Right) Whitney Young eighth-grader Kristina Carson looks through the eyepiece of an 8-inch reflecting telescope during the ...

Shovels are in the ground for a highly anticipated project in South Chicago that its backers, including Gov. JB Pritzker, say will be transformative to a neighborhood still ...

When Avery Willis Hoffman takes the reins as the Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director of Court Theatre on November 1, she'll be steering the University of Chicago theater into uncharted ...

It was a night of all French music when Finnish conductor Mikko Franck and German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra last Thursday night for the first ...

Surrounded by citrine yellow walls and matching carpet, a single screen dominates in an otherwise empty room. Upon entrance, however, viewers are met not by the glow of the media but rather the screen ...

Unionized workers at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry are threatening to strike this month if management doesn’t agree to higher wages, as negotiations for a first contract stall. More than ...

Chicago City Council signed off last week on two major South Side hotel projects: a high-rise near the incoming Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park and a mixed-use complex tied ...

Chicago Public Schools’ official enrollment this school year is 316,224 — a 2.8% drop compared to last school year, interim CPS CEO Macquline King announced Thursday. “Enrollment decreased across a ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement leaders in Chicago canceled a meeting scheduled for Friday with members of Illinois’ congressional delegation.