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The largest open space project in the country is coming to the South Side of Chicago.

Some students at Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, Indiana were outraged by one of their professors, Maurice Eisenstein, who teaches political science at the Northwest Indiana university.He came under fire for comments made in lectures and online which many considered anti-Muslim.Eisenstein was

Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Blagojevich attorneys talk appeal; a dark corner of Lithuanian history; Chicago's new Greek Museum!It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe.

It was well known that Rod Blagojevich enjoyed long jogs around his North Side neighborhood, a luxury he will have to give up when he checks into prison.But it was during one of those jogs that local poet Kevin Coval, artistic director of Young Chicago Authors, met the former governor.That encounter

Eight Forty-Eight continued its look at Rod Blagojevich following his sentencing hearing by talking to a woman who has profiled many embattled political figures.

A chapter of history largely unknown in the U.S. is being featured in an exhibit on Chicago's Southwest Side. The Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture tells the story of Lithuanians deported to Siberia.

The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a grant to improve access to healthy food for African American and Latino Chicagoans.Those groups have higher rates of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. And an $850,000 grant seeks to reduce health disparities.