The murder of George Floyd five years ago set off not just protests but full-scale riots around the country, including in ...

La Grande Boucherie fuses traditional French cuisine with Chicago’s River North culinary heritage. Chef Michael Taus stopped ...

Jane told Houghton and Vartanian she and Schepers both worked at First Chicago Bank Card (FCBC ... out to be Schepers and her car from the Fox River, the next step was for a range of experts ...

When heavy rains overwhelm the Chicago area's combined sewer systems ... and so we can see that in what's called the sediment — the bottom of the river — that is contaminated with all sorts ...

On the other hand, it's not great to have an abandoned chair lodged in the middle of the North Shore Channel, just a couple hundred yards from its confluence with the North Branch of the Chicago River ...

“The one on the top represents Lake Michigan and the north branch of the Chicago River, while the one on the bottom represents the shipping canal and south branch of the river,” McElroy sai ...

Editor’s Note: A live view of the Chicago River on Monday, March 17 is streaming in the player above. The Chicago River getting dyed green is one of the city’s most iconic St. Patrick’s Day ...

Every year as part of the city’s St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, thousands of onlookers clad in green cheer on a boat crew sprinkling orange powder into the Chicago River to turn it a festive ...