As the feds cracked down on immigration in Chicago this fall, filmmaker Carlos Javier Ortiz’s camera was rolling. These ...

A poet reacts to the immigration crackdown in his hometown the way he knows best: through verse.

The answer dates back to 1703, when the French controlled the Illinois Country. That year a Jesuit group established its ...

ICE presence in Chicago has hurt the local economies in immigrant communities — which could in turn put a financial strain on ...

Fresh off their first album in nine years, the longtime rock innovators perform with the Chicago Philharmonic.

What:A new Midwestern-inspired bistro from the Elske team.

As the feds cracked down on immigration in Chicago this fall, filmmaker Carlos Javier Ortiz’s camera was rolling. These stills and footage show a city in crisis — and a city defiant.

This year marks a quarter century since the closing of Medusa’s, Chicago’s most famous all-ages nightclub. Named after its gloriously coiffed owner, airline-employee-turned-impresario Dave “Medusa” ...

Electricity costs for many people in the Chicago area were up noticeably this summer — 10 to 15 percent from last year, on average, according to ComEd. Why? And what can be done about it? To get some ...

“We are in Chicago, but probably not the Chicago you’re thinking of,” writes Maggie Andersen in her new memoir, No Stars in Jefferson Park. Now a 47-year-old associate professor of English at ...