Now in its second year, the North Center festival celebrates disability culture through laughter while highlighting its performers’ unique perspectives from living in an ableist word.

Couple Emiley Kiser and Patrick Kapp launched their shop with a 5,000-album collection they bought on Facebook Marketplace and drove up from South Carolina.

This year’s season will have a total of 23 performances across Brighton Park, Welles Park, Jefferson Park and suburban Evanston and feature a variety of world-renowned talent, the organizer said.

A celebration of the new Albany Park amenities was disrupted by neighbors arguing over what to do about the unhoused residents living in tents at the park since spring.

More than 50 music acts will perform across multiple outdoor stages, and there will be workshops and performances at the Old Town School of Folk Music.

Cat tours have taken off in other cities, with hundreds of people gathering to spot cats in windows and on patios. The tour will coincide with the Davis Theater's annual CatVideoFest.

A group of moms started the Filipino School of Chicago in 2024 to help kids and families appreciate their “Filipino-ness,” as one parent said. Organizers are fundraising for a permanent space.

More than 50 music acts will perform across multiple outdoor stages, along with interactive workshops and performances inside the Old Town School of Folk Music.

The years-long project to upgrade the transit hub near the heart of Lincoln Square could be completed within two months, officials said.

Agents crashed their car into a bystander's Tuesday before wrestling a man to the ground while frightened neighbors implored them to stop.

An emergency protest will be held Wednesday after agents crashed into a woman's car, dropped a loaded magazine in the street and confronted neighbors with weapons while arresting a man Tuesday.

A driver struck Illeana Crisanto, a 62-year-old mother of three from Skokie, as she walked near Belmont and Kilbourn avenues, where the city has planned to put in a traffic light for years — but hasn'...

Debbie Brockman said the incident “profoundly impacted my life on a day-to-day basis, leaving me uncertain of my future, my neighbors’ futures, and quite frankly the future of the United States."

The Friendship Center previously held monthly food distribution events. Starting next week, it will open its pet pantry several days a week to meet the spike in demand.

A developer’s pitch for the Fifth Third Bank building at Lawrence and Western avenues has yet to be finalized but could include 60 affordable units, Ald. Andre Vasquez said.

After he was tortured in El Salvador and one of his family members was killed, M.G. sought refuge in the United States. The Convention Against Torture was supposed to make sure he didn't go back. But ...

Two years after a grease fire forced the popular North Center breakfast spot to close for repairs, it's back in business.

The former Diplomat Motel has been renovated into a transitional housing complex offering 37 private rooms to unhoused residents seeking a fresh start.

Couple Michael Milazzo and Violeta Djukic are calling it quits May 22 due to high food prices and operating costs, though they’re not ruling out opening another restaurant.

The ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable—even in cases where their products cause “critical harm.”

There is a particular indignity that comes from living in America, derived from the experience of waking up in the morning to see reports that Donald Trump has said something profoundly evil, and then...

Three Chicago breweries have announced closures this year while Half Acre and Maplewood will merge. With the industry at an inflection point, some operators say a “lean and mean” approach may be the w...

Neither the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office nor Franklin Park police chose to launch probes into the death of Silverio Villegas González. That’s in stark contrast to Minneapolis, where local off...

Oscar Suarez was arrested March 9 for driving without a license the same day Albany Park neighbors were meeting to prepare for another possible surge of federal immigration agents, Ald. Rossana Rodrig...

Six protesters were charged with conspiracy for allegedly impeding a federal vehicle at a protest in Broadview, but two of the defendants have already seen their charges dropped.

The sky's already been taken from you to much better effect in Sunrise's 1998 sci-fi anime.

The fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, the second U.S. citizen to be killed by federal forces in Minnesota this month, has intensified the public outrage over tactics used by immigration agents in the sta...