A relic of pre-Internet boom times, Water Tower Place desperately needs a makeover
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The station sued nearly a year ago after the city blacked out portions of a complaint letter from a Chicago Park District lifeguard.
After an hours-long debate, a panel of Chicago aldermen advanced the mayor’s plan to bring a Bally’s casino to the city.
The surprise departure of Ald. Michael Scott Jr. gives Mayor Lori Lightfoot the ability to appoint her second alderperson.
For those languishing on preorder lists for the company’s coveted electric truck and SUV, obsessing online together is sweet torture.
Madigan’s comments may not exactly find a place in the Chicago corruption lexicon, but most of the words previously attributed by the feds to Madigan are far more flat.
Cases have been on the rise statewide since mid-March, or a few weeks after Gov. JB Pritzker lifted his indoor mask mandate.
Some teens at Waubonsie Valley High are so into the project that teachers have to prod them to leave the prairie and go to their other classes.
The current CTU leadership group was reelected in the union’s most hotly contested race since their slate came to power in 2010.
The state’s two first-term female representatives, Democratic Rep. Marie Newman and Republican Rep. Mary Miller, were among the biggest losers in the remapping.
Some experts say Chicago officials should be providing activities and services in Millennium Park to the kids flocking there.