NASCAR shaves two weeks off setup, road closures for Chicago Street Race
Street closures have been reduced to 18 days, one day less than last year and a 28% improvement from the inaugural event in ...
How queer nightlife shaped Chicago — and America
In Chicago, Boystown — with its mix of cocktail lounges, gay bars, nightclubs, parades and drag brunches — has become a ...
Affordability is heavily shaping Chicago's growth prospects. Here's how it's changing.
Cost-of-living is factoring into the region's growth prospects. Here's the role affordability is playing locally.
With Chicago's mass transit system on the fiscal precipice, what solutions are on the table?
State lawmakers remain focused on reforming Chicago mass transit as they discuss two bills to either merge the agencies or ...
Young Abraham Lincoln's tiny Illinois town is due for a makeover
Lincoln, a clean-shaven 22-year-old with the barest of formal schooling, had set out in 1831 to haul freight down the ...
A federal judge temporarily blocks parts of Trump's anti-DEI executive orders
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Labor from implementing parts of President ...
Flooding corrected at Chicago fishing pier that serves program for people with disabilities
The office of Ald. Nicole Lee (11th) promised to fix the flooding problem with a new pump, and now the waters have receded.
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Sewage Overflows Into the Chicago River Are Rare, But New Warning System Will Alert Paddlers and Other Users When to Steer Clear
A new notification system is being proposed at access points along the Chicago River to warn recreational users when ...
Chicago fishing: Variety of weather, variety of fish
As befits this time of year, a wide variety of weather (80 degrees to snow) and a wide variety of fish (lakefront coho, river ...
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Decades before Irish were Chicago political royalty, they lived in a ramshackle slum called Kilgubbin
In the 1830s, Irish laborers dug the Illinois & Michigan Canal, settling in a spot once called Hardscrabble, which became the South Side’s Bridgeport neighborhood. And when the Great Famine devastated ...
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Decades before Irish were Chicago political royalty, they lived in a ramshackle slum called Kilgubbin
In the 1830s, Irish laborers dug the Illinois & Michigan ... the South Side’s Bridgeport neighborhood. And when the Great Famine devastated Ireland in the 1840s, Chicago was a destination ...
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Our Chicago: Possible impacts of cuts at Dept. of Education
And they were already understaffed," said Rich Hayes, Executive Director of Financial Aid and Scholarships at the University of Illinois Chicago. "So now when you cut it by 50%, now you have an ...