HYDE PARK — Cubs ace Marcus Stroman is giving Brave Space Alliance, a South Side-based Black- and trans-led LGBTQ+ center, $20,000 in honor of Pride

CHICAGO — Former bus operator Russia Brown joined the CTA with hopes of "helping the city move." The hours were long but the job paid well, Brown

CHICAGO — A free Narcan vending machine is coming to the 95th Street station in Roseland — the first of its kind to help people who overdose on the CTA.

With the Sky drafting two of Clark's college rivals in Kamilla Cardoso and Angel Reese, fans want games against Clark moved to a bigger venue.

BELMONT HARBOR — Chicago has a sailing pig. Gilligan, an adventurous and at times prissy pot-bellied pig, has become the most famous first mate at Belmont

SOUTH LOOP — A South Loop Walgreens has unveiled a renovated interior where most of the merchandise is kept away from customers — and some shoppers say

An employee alleges he was fired in the middle of his shift Tuesday — less than an hour before all Foxtrot and Dom's stores immediately closed.

A fundraiser for the family has collected over $120,000. Jayden's mom and unborn sibling are expected to recover.

CHICAGO — Advocacy groups say the city has not deployed enough resources to protect unhoused people facing potentially deadly winter weather. Temperatures

CHICAGO — A viral video showed a 4-year-old's heart break as he dropped his hot dog at a White Sox game — but The Wieners Circle has gotten him another

Nineteen alderpeople — including more than a third of the City Council’s transportation committee — are calling for Carter to be replaced.

SOX PARK — Beef, an orange tabby cat, might like ballpark food more than he likes baseball. For days, the scruffy feline prowled the outfield and slept in

CHICAGO — Embattled CTA President Dorval Carter has repeatedly vowed to fix a transit system Chicagoans have called unsafe, unsanitary and unreliable as

Jayden was killed in March trying to protect his mother from a serial domestic abuser. Gus Giordano Dance School, where he studied, has created a scholarship in his honor.

"We were saying to each other that this was probably our biggest celebrity sighting since Frank Sinatra," said the Old Town restaurant's co-owner.

DOWNTOWN — A family of foxes has joined the list of wild animals stealing Chicago's heart this spring. In the past few months, people have celebrated

The new rail schedules are more accurate for riders, which agency officials hope will eliminate "ghost" trains. But the problem of too few operators remains.

CHICAGO — A historical two-flat in North Lawndale is now a vacant lot. So is a former check cashing store in Englewood. Three homes in Lincoln Park have

CITY HALL — A Chicago man has released video of police beating him in 2019 and wants city officials to publicly apologize for the incident. Damien Stewart

Thirty-five Foxtrot and Dom's stores closed abruptly Tuesday, devastating some shoppers. "I partially moved to Chicago for Foxtrot," one customer said.

CHICAGO — A Pilsen man giving warm winter tents to people living underneath bridges, viaducts and in parks — and has blasted city officials for

CHICAGO — The city is short hundreds of lawyers and has a backlog of tens of thousands of cases as migrants wait months to apply for asylum to legally

A "complete reset" of the transit system would allow lawmakers to create a "proper accountability" system for CTA leadership, Civic Federation President Joe Ferguson said. CTA says funding, not...

Chef Bruno Abate's Recipe for Change program has taught 4,000 inmates how to cook. Now, he's launching a food truck to bring their pizza to the people.

CHATHAM — It was opening day 1992 for the White Sox, and Joseph Caldwell Sr. had a prime spot: right behind home plate. The Sox had inked Caldwell's

LAKEFRONT — Phyllis Keenan does not want this story to be about her. The story, she insisted, is about the early-morning warriors training for the Chicago

SOX PARK — White Sox fan Bennett Karoll doesn't want to give team owner Jerry Reinsdorf anymore of his money. Karoll, a lifelong White Sox fan, launched a

CHICAGO — Over 5.6 million rides on the CTA were recorded in the first week of June, which the agency touted as the most since the start of the pandemic —

WEST LOOP — A Pilsen man providing tents to people experiencing homelessness throughout Chicago has faced an obstacle, he says: city leaders. For about a

CHICAGO — Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson, 47, courted the support of young progressive officials, hosted rallies at colleges and music venues and captured

Advocates and officials said harm reduction supplies from the vending machines are getting in the hands of people who've experienced or witnessed overdoses.

O'HARE AIRPORT — Bettie the beagle wants to sniff your bag.  Bettie's a dog with a job at O’Hare Airport — a cute and cuddly authority who sniffs out

CHICAGO — Chicago Transit Authority riders have coped for years with unreliable, unsanitary and sometimes unsafe service. But the system's leader operates

CHICAGO — No, that’s not a CTA train on the expressway — but it is a fully functional bar.  A viral photo of what looked like a runaway train on the

The sheriff's office released video of a person of interest wheeling a trolley out of the courthouse Thursday.

A Red Line switchman narrowly avoided gunfire when his colleague was shot in the chest outside the Howard Street station last week. He said he'd flagged safety concerns about the station to his...

CHICAGO — The Chicago Transit Authority's embattled president will have to face City Council more often thanks to a new ordinance. Alderpeople approved an

Little, a Far South Sider and Lindblom graduate, fell short of making the past two Olympics, but she has found a home — and made history — on a new relay team.

CHICAGO — A group of commuters will call on CTA President Dorval Carter to resign amid long-running problems with the transit agency. The CTA has been

Rev. Ira Acree said the City Council and most agency boards should be vacated if alderpeople now want to only go off experience.

A new Narcan vending machine at the 95th Red Line station is a "first step" to addressing overdoses on transit, which doubled last year, health advocates say.

A fixture on the Far North Side, 12-year-old Chief died peacefully at home after recently falling sick.

SOX PARK — A local historian is teaching young ballplayers about the origins of the Negro Leagues on the South Side. Shermann "Dilla" Thomas, famous for

EAST GARFIELD PARK — Shortly after Dorothy Gaters retired, she went back to work.  Gaters, the winningest high school basketball coach in Illinois

CHICAGO — Candace Parker wanted to bring Chicago a title. On Sunday, she led the Chicago Sky to its first WNBA championship and city's first basketball

CHICAGO — Only one man tracks sunshine in Chicago. With antennas and sensors sticking out of the roof and files of weather reports in the basement, Frank

No stores would close in the merger, but the Mariano's brand and 14 local stores would be sold to a third-party for antitrust reasons, supermarket officials said.

EAST GARFIELD PARK — Shawn Harrington’s new favorite day is Friday. Harrington, a former hoops standout and beloved assistant coach at Marshall High

ROGERS PARK — Amid the scrum of reporters covering political debates on the Far North Side, Tess Lacy pressed "Record" on her phone and tried her best to

WEST RIDGE — Cary's Lounge's most popular regular doesn’t drink. But he does kill rats.  Mel, a middle-aged fluffball with a killer’s instinct, has

As the CTA struggles to recover from the pandemic, the mayor and governor won’t explain how they pick people for the agency’s board.

Nineteen alderpeople — including more than a third of the City Council’s transportation committee — are calling for Carter to be replaced.

CHICAGO — The Chicago Sky are expecting one of their largest crowds ever for a sold-out game Friday as the team fights the Phoenix Mercury for the WNBA

CHICAGO — In its latest bid to fix service problems plaguing the agency, the CTA is spending $80 million to attract new bus and train workers — including

CHICAGO — A Chicago police sergeant is facing criminal charges and has been relieved of his police powers after prosecutors said he falsely accused a

WEST GARFIELD PARK — Madeline Martin, 62, used to go every morning to the Aldi at 3835 W. Madison St.  The short walk from Martin's West Garfield

LINCOLN PARK — Student journalists at DePaul University said stacks of their newspapers disappeared after they published a front-page story detailing an

CHICAGO — Local film critic Emmanuel “E-Man” Noisette has seen huge support for his petition calling on Marvel to recast T’Challa, the barrier-breaking

ROGERS PARK — A North Side neighborhood's longtime leader is mostly chill, sometimes grumpy and always in charge. He's also a cat. Chief, a domineering

CHICAGO — Community organizations across Chicago need more supplies and helping hands to provide the latest wave of migrants with basic needs, medical

So many bikes litter the lake that the Fire Department, the rideshare company and a group of volunteers dubbed the Divvy Fishers Society can barely keep up.

Rowdy St. Patrick's Day crowds leave trash in the green-colored river. A group of kayak tour guides cleans up what Paddy's Day revelers leave behind.

CHICAGO — Chicago Transit Authority riders have coped for years with unreliable, unsanitary and sometimes unsafe service. But the system's leader operates

AUSTIN — An 11-day strike at Loretto Hospital is over after the workers and the hospital tentatively agreed to a new three-year contract Thursday evening.

CHICAGO — George Blakemore will speak his truth to anybody who listens. On Saturday, Chicago’s “concerned citizen” — known for directing fiery diatribes