The life and legacy of Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, who is largely referred to as Chicago’s founder, is being honored at a new park just east of where the Haitian-born trader settled near the river.

Mayor Brandon Johnson traveled to Springfield Tuesday carrying a set of budget requests far more modest than last year.

The Chicago & North Western train depot in downtown Milwaukee was torn down in 1968 to make way for parks and a freeway that ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson's 2024 trip to Springfield was a fiasco as he lobbied for a taxpayer-funded Chicago Bears stadium on Chicago's lakefront and failed even to ask Gov. JB Pritzker for more money ...

But the building designed to resemble a Greek temple is instead a Chicago Park District ruin. It sits fenced off and rotting ...

Shamus Toomey, Editor in Chief and co-founder of Block Club Chicago, joins Wendy Snyder (in for Bob Sirott) to share the latest Chicago neighborhood stories. Shamus has details on: New ...

A Crain's report says the Bears requested Soldier Field maintenance schedules from the park district, possibly setting up ...

The only time I’ve ever spoken to Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder was in court, and I hadn’t expected to find him there in 1994 ...

A developer is planning a massive $7 billion expansion of a Hammond data center that would rank among the largest ...

State Street, a pedestrian-friendly corridor, connects the Capitol Square with the University of Wisconsin campus. No cars ...

An East Coast real estate firm has purchased a distressed Oak Brook office building for 71% less than it traded for a dozen years ago, kicking off a plan to renovate it and refill it with tenants.

This news comes just after a Rockford woman won $1 million dollars from a scratch off she bought on the Illinois lottery app.