The creator of a new soap opera, featuring a core Black family, grew up on Chicago’s South Side. Michele Val Jean talks ...

The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is in debt so it is putting more than 100 of its artifacts up for auction.

About 25,000 Chicago Public Schools students were absent for more than a month last year, according to a new analysis by WBEZ ...

Earlier this month, a festival dedicated to the composer Gustav Mahler brought some of the world’s best orchestras under one ...

The singer was in town performing at Soldier Field as part of her Cowboy Carter tour, and it meant concertgoers were looking ...

Earlier this month, the organizer of two Chicago festivals supporting Latino theater artists said it was putting the popular ...

Electric bills are about to jump by an average of $10.60 a month due to increased power demand across the country. A consumer ...

How could the Supreme Court’s forthcoming decision on birthright citizenship affect people without legal status in Illinois?

A quarter of CPS high schoolers missed more than a month of school last year — double the rate from 2019. Students arrive to ...

Last week’s tussle over ‘Bring the Family Home’ exposes what some Jewish artists call a climate of censorship toward their ...

He is a very good icon for the Black and brown communities,” said Nicole Williams, a CPS junior who attended the events at ...

Vice President JD Vance presented Pope Leo XIV with a Bears jersey on Monday, and the Chicago-area native seemed to like it. ...