With enrollment down to 322,000 students this year. CPS now trails Miami-Dade County Public Schools, which enrolled 325,000 students this fall.
Whether you’re a dabbler or a connoisseur, you’ll find something new to sip in tasting rooms that prize limited-run varieties and regional fruit.
After floating a 2.5% property tax increase last month, the mayor will not raise property taxes for the next fiscal year, WBEZ has learned.
Conspiracy theorists inundate election officials across the state with form letters demanding voter records and threatening lawsuits.
During the rotation of the seasons, the building’s metal exoskeleton will get looser and tighter, then back again — looking slightly different in the hot and cold months.
An independent expert who has monitored the mental health care was terminated reducing the transparency around an often failing system.
The guidelines call for preserving the façade while including affordable housing, green infrastructure, open space and public art.
The 19th century Victorian house will lose its status as the ‘candy house’ but will remain a testament to another era of Chicago.
Cook County property owners would be asked to pay about $1.50 more a month in taxes toward the preserves, which became a haven during the pandemic.
CPS said area teens travel too far for school now and growth justifies the school. Opponents said the plan is irresponsible and lacks local input.
The man entered the facility through a fire escape, picked up at least two guns from a table and aimed them at officers, Chicago’s police superintendent said.
Despite being of age to mate, Imani spent the summer alone. Now bird watchers have their fingers crossed the bird — offspring of Monty and Rose — returns.
It’s a good time to be a talented tech worker in Chicago — but daunting for local startups aiming to expand.
In a confidential memo last year, top CPS officials said a new high school would undermine nearby historically Black schools.
In the first of a six-part series, NPR’s Bob Mondello explains how the theater that most Americans see is being transformed.
As more states move to restrict abortion, these providers are finding themselves navigating an increasingly complicated legal landscape.
The number of teams has more than doubled in the league’s second year. “This isn’t a boys sport. Girls can play too,” one coach said.
Since 2015, the Chicago Police Department has shut down at least 58 businesses, most on the South Side and West Side, after shootings at or near their premises even as violence surged downtown.
WBEZ’s Curious City wants to hear your spine-tingling stories of unexplained sights and sounds, spiritual cleansings and other spooky things.
Former members say Covenant Fellowship Church has reneged on its vows to investigate allegations of sexual and spiritual abuse.
Preliminary data shows the school district is down to 321,000 students this year. Chicago has lost about 82,000 students over the past decade.
