Grocery shopping can be a political act. Where you put your money can be just as important as where you put your vote. In a city full of food, Chicagoans face rising prices, competing priorities, and ...

On what should’ve been his 80th birthday, beloved songwriter John Prine offers enduring lessons about the value of empathy and curiosity.

The cruelty, ignorance, and incompetence of the federal pandemic response have cost the life of beloved singer-songwriter John Prine, who stood against all those things.

Casa Cafe’s bookers are pursuing a city license so they can safely restart shows. Plus: DJ Paul Nixon launches the pop-up shop Happy Home Records, and more.

The Hyde Park Jazz Festival's biggest-ever crowd came out for a dazzling roster whose wide-ranging talents brought us two days of music with open borders.

On what should’ve been his 80th birthday, beloved songwriter John Prine offers enduring lessons about the value of empathy and curiosity.

Through festivals, gardens, and groceries, this southeast Asian community in exile weaves itself into Chicago's food fabric.

A Portage Park restaurant owner remembers Silverio Villegas González, the quiet, hardworking cook who was killed by an ICE agent.

A coalition of more than 55 organizations wants Cook County to freeze spending on the sheriff and state's attorney amid a $550 million deficit and redirect the money to public defenders and violence p...

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Videos and witness testimony show immigration agents continue using Chicago police station parking lots despite a ban on their access to city property. Records obtained from the Civilian Office of Pol...

During their failed efforts to prosecute Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ruiz, federal authorities accessed a network of Chicagoland license plate readers and surveillance cameras.

Injustice Watch's guide to the November 2026 Cook County judicial elections.

Two-day twee and indie-pop festival the Windy Pop Weekender includes 90s favorites Rocketship, Dressy Bessy, and the Softies.

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Two nonprofit organizations are accusing the state judiciary of failing to adhere to public reporting mandates.

Experimental Sound Studio uses all 24 channels of the Pritzker Pavilion audio system. Plus: Further fests this week include the Evanston Folk Festival, PravdaFest, and Plantasia.

Onion City Records opens this month. Plus: Sound & Gravity hosts a screening and record fair, and the Post celebrates deep-house DJ Glenn Underground.

Born from hip-hop in the 1970s, turntablism is having its biggest moment in pop and rock since the nu-metal boom a generation ago.

With a return to their roots in cumbia and chicha, Chicago five-piece Dos Santos have created a spirited response to a world blighted by hate.

Across Illinois, police, sheriffs, and even prosecutors have helped federal immigration agents route at least 150 people into the deportation system since Trump returned to office — despite a state la...

This year's festivities include four days of house music in the city that birthed it.

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

In over a third of Illinois counties, cops, sheriffs, and even prosecutors helped federal immigration agents route at least 150 people into the deportation system since Trump returned to office, despi...

Manasseh's new album, plus fresh music from Thirteendegrees°, Kino Disk, and Plum, release parties for Iris Temple and the Feeders, and more

The Calamarain were intelligent non-corporeal lifeforms that existed as swirls of ionized gas. Their language could not be processed by the universal translator due to a lack of reference for establis...

B etween his fits of on-camera narcolepsy, President Trump continues to find new ways to undermine the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. … Read More "Editorial: MAGA Regime Wreaks Havoc ...

A moderated panel and group discussion. Tuesday, August 25th at Pilsen Books, 6:30-8:30 PM.

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

The Cook County Sheriff’s Office and the Chicago Police Department both missed state-mandated deadlines to publicly report drone information.

This year's festivities include four days of house music in the city that birthed it.

The Forevertron is one of the largest scrap-metal sculptures on the planet.