Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 12, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important ...

The legendary American rights activist, politician and Baptist minister, Reverend Jesse Jackson, passed away recently at the age of 84. He died on February 17, 2026, at home in Chicago after battling ...

St Patrick’s Day is a global celebration of Irish culture, but in the US its parades have always been political.

Attorneys for the family of a woman killed in a crash during a high-speed police chase in 2017 say officers involved failed to activate their body cameras or turned them off during the pursuit.

Children who grew up in the Chicago area had access to an abundance of television programs that were created here just for them.

What we learned from a new book about a vigilante group that chased down local bootleggers and extortionists in the early 1930s.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What's pretty clear if you undertake watching all 97 (so far) films to take that vaunted prize – and it's not for the fainthearted ...

Librarian Jarrett Dapier's graphic novel tells a fictionalized account of real-life events in 2013 that restricted access to Marjane Satrapi's memoir Persepolis in Chicago Public Schools.

We were all saddened when my cousin David informed us that his dad — my uncle and Godfather — passed away. This week, he ...