Chicago Public Schools students will return to classrooms on August 18 — but fear not, a slate of back-to-school festivals and giveaways over the next few weeks will help area ...

Cook County is awarding $25 million to local organizations working to prevent gun violence and support survivors, officials announced this week.

PEORIA – With major future cuts to social service programs now written into law, Democrats seeking Illinois’ open U.S. Senate seat in 2026 are hitting the campaign trail seeking to position themselves ...

The University of Chicago Medical Center ended its gender-affirming care for minors last week, becoming the latest Chicago hospital to bow to federal pressure over it.

CHICAGO — Another company is joining the state-backed research and business facility on Chicago’s South Side. Colorado-based Infleqtion, will set up shop at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics ...

But without children of her own, Ellis had started to worry in recent years about what would happen to these memories. It was at that screening almost a decade ago that Ellis met Jacqueline Stewart, ...

The Democratic primary for Illinois’ open U.S. Senate seat features three of the state’s most notable Democrats, but U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly isn’t worried big spending or endorsements for her ...

Masako Wada, assistant secretary general of Nihon Hidankyo, a group of Japanese atomic bomb survivors who won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, beamed in via a projection system from Japan to offer an ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, along with 16 other Democratic governors, sent a letter Thursday to federal education and budget officials demanding the Trump administration release almost $7 billion in ...

When 2-year-old Kairo arrived at La Rabida Children’s Hospital in Jackson Park last year, he had already survived what might be a parent’s worst nightmare.

A sweeping “Senior Bill of Rights” that would guarantee older adults the right to safe, habitable housing and protections from landlord retaliation is now under consideration in City Council.

Shoppers peruse wares in the Hyde Park Shopping Center, 1502 E. 55th St., during its annual summer sidewalk sale on July 17, 2025.