Artist D. Lamar Preston's "Gifted to Me" sculpture was quietly installed at the corner of 62nd Street and Stony Island Avenue ...

Midsommer Flight is bringing Shakespeare back to Chicago parks for the 12th summer, and its Nichols Park performances are ...

Illinois schools chief Tony Sanders called the Trump administration’s decision to withhold almost $7 billion in federal ...

The Renaissance Society’s new show, "Germinations," by Lima-born artist Ximena Garrido-Lecca consists primarily of a large rectangle of compact earth covered in maybe four or five hundred potatoes.

A long-awaited memorial to honor survivors of police torture in Chicago is on track to break ground by the end of this year, according to project leaders. The Chicago Torture Justice Memorial, first ...

Governor JB Pritzker announced Tuesday that Christian Mitchell, a former deputy governor and a University of Chicago executive, will be his running mate in his bid for a third term. In a statement, ...

Clara Louise Jones Oklu was born in Chicago to Laura Jones on January 11, 1945. Clara was the youngest of six children, with two older sisters, Earlean and Edna and three older brothers, Raymond, ...

An activist for mental health care access and an educator championing criminal justice reform are two of this year’s Leaders for a New Chicago. Alice Kim of the Beyond Prisons Initiative and Cheryl ...

Two more vendors are claiming they were never paid for their work at the 2023 Hyde Park Summer Fest, bringing the total debt of the popular South Side music festival to more than $1 million. The ...

The family of a technical engineer who died last year after falling more than 100 feet when scaffolding broke apart at the University of Chicago’s under-construction cancer research center reached a ...