If it wasn't for Steppenwolf ensemble member Jon Michael Hill's stellar performance, the world premiere of Ngozi Anyanwu's ...

Blue,” the opera by composer Jeanine Tesori and librettist Tazewell Thompson, was to be part of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2019–20 season, but was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Amid ongoing talks to close Chicago’s projected $982.4 million budget deficit in fiscal year 2025, City Council batted back Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed $300 million property tax increase to help ...

For those who grew up on the South Side in the late 1950s, the sight of a makeshift fence of mismatched front doors ...

After a year of belt-tightening measures, University of Chicago leaders presented on Monday their plan to close a $288 ...

Two University of Chicago students walking near campus were robbed at gunpoint early Sunday morning, according to the U. of C ...

A state pilot program designed to erase medical debt for 300,000 Illinois residents has already helped thousands eliminate ...

Eight years ago, on the morning of Wednesday, November 9, 2016, Josh Earnest, then-President Barack Obama’s White House Press ...

Eight months after an enrollment investigation cut short Kenwood Academy’s state playoff run, boys basketball coach Mike ...

The Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) is hosting a workshop this Saturday to help CHA voucher holders learn how to use their ...

When Illinois lawmakers carved up Chicago into 10 areas for the city’s first school board elections, one of the districts they created is a sprawling expanse that hugs the city’s south lakefront from ...