Chicago's Field Museum plans to trim its budget and re-organize its research departments, a move some say could 'diminish' its international reputation.
If the name Steve McQueen makes you think of the late American film star, a new show at the Art Institute of Chicago will change that. The exhibition covers 20 years of work by the renowned British artist and filmmaker.
Northwestern University has offered to swap Bertrand Goldberg's 1975 Prentice Women's Hospital with a building "the aesthetics of such that people are going to marvel at it."
Khaled M is an Libyan-American hip-hop artist based in Chicago. He's also the son of exiles, who fled Libya in the 1970s. Last December he traveled to Libya for the first time, and met the US American ambassador Christopher Stevens.
Between 1983 and 1987, Chicago Public School teachers walked out four times. As current teachers wind up their second day on the picket lines, some local parents and teachers remember the strikes of the 1980s.
