In the fight for a new Chicago Bears stadium, the mayor of Arlington Heights is counting on a last-minute score this week. Sunday is the last day of the spring legislative session in Springfield, so ...

45th Ward Alderman James Gardiner filed a lawsuit against the city this week for $1 million. Gardiner says a series of investigations into his alleged retaliation against political opponents was part ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- The best of the television business were honored Friday night in Chicago. The Chicago-Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences inducted its 2026 Silver ...

For decades, Aadam Jacobs obsessively documented Chicago’s indie rock scene, recording shows religiously in the '80s, '90s and beyond. Over the past few years, a team of volunteer audio archivists ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 11, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Front page flashback: May 12, 1924 Upon ...

Jim's Original, which bills itself as the longest continuously operating hot dog stand to have once done business on Maxwell Street, plans to move its flagship location from University Village to the ...

Chicago State University students are planting trees along the Bishop Ford Freeway in celebration of Arbor Day. Hegseth fired the Army chief of chaplains. It’s an unusual move Trump says suspect is in ...

Our picks for events in and around Chicago this weekend. Feeling a little overwhelmed by EXPO? The Other Art Fair — one of five such shows scattered across the U.S. and London — aims to be an ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Two people were injured in a Bishop Ford Freeway shooting on Chicago's South Side early Sunday morning, Illinois State Police said. ISP said troopers responded to northbound ...

The NFL’s Indiana Bears? That could soon be the geographic truth, if not the football team’s actual name. The Bears want to move out of Chicago’s Soldier Field, and a competition to be their future ...