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The historic Fern Room at Chicago's Garfield Park Conservatory reopened Saturday for the first time since a summer hail storm caused heavy damages.Workers replaced the broken glass in the Fern Room with a polycarbonate roof to protect plants against the cold.“The room is literally in transformation,

CHICAGO — Leaders of one of Chicago's oldest Roman Catholic churches are objecting to a newly-proposed route for the city's annual gay pride parade, saying the event will draw large crowds outside the church entrance and block access to Sunday Masses.The parade that has run through parts of Chicago'

Chicago Public Schools unveiled a list of so-called school actions this week, including 10 school turnarounds, replacing the entire staff with new faces.Some schools will be closed outright and others will be what CPS calls "phased out," which means no new students will be accepted; as current stude

Dayton’s population has been shrinking since the 1960s. Most of the area’s factory jobs are long gone. To save the city, Schultz has embraced a new idea: Help immigrants and refugees lay roots in Dayton.

As the Great Lakes region continues to face high rates of unemployment, many manufacturing workers find themselves laid off and lacking credentials to find new work. State-funded agencies are teaming up with community colleges and private businesses to help get workers back into jobs.

November was a month of trials, tribulations and tests: Mayor Emanuel and Cook County Board President Preckwinkle had their budgets approved, Gov.

FLINT — There may be no better example of how the industrial Midwest is changing than the site of the old Fisher Body Plant No.