Chicago could see record setting temperatures – warm ones – on Thursday. The Chicago Tribune reports the temperature at O’Hare reached 56 degrees at 8:00a.m. this morning, and a bank […]

A meeting to allow community members to provide feedback on Chicago Public Schools’ plan to close four high schools (Harper, Hope, Robeson and TEAM Englewood) quickly became an angry shouting […]

Out on home video and several streaming platforms today is one of the more talked-about films out of last year’s Sundance Film Festival, writer-director Marianna Palka’s Bitch. Palka stars as […]

The annual Northwestern Winter Chamber Music Festival opens this Friday with the North American concert debut of a young ensemble hailing from the Netherlands, the Dudok Kwartet Amsterdam. Hosted by […]

I make no excuses about the fact that I adore every Paul Thomas Anderson film to varying (often excessive) degrees. And while all of them have felt very “adult” in […]

Black Button Eyes’ darkly gothic production of Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe makes good use of the Edge Theatre’s spacious proscenium stage. The six performers […]

After two men held a woman at gunpoint to rob her car in Hermosa, they crashed the car into a building on the 3000 block of North Laramie Avenue. Police […]

The Field Museum will add “plant clouds” to its Stanley Field Hall entrance where Dinosaur Sue lived for years. The floating plants are meant to foster the feeling of roaming […]

The Cook County Ethics Board is examining contributions made to the county assessor’s office, after it was found that he did not return to property tax appeals lawyers contributions that […]

It’s the late 1950s on the upper West side of Manhattan. Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) is a well-dressed, well-educated woman with a husband, two preschool children and a gorgeous apartment. […]

The old Morton Salt Warehouse at 1329 N. Elston, highly visible from the Kennedy Expressway, will be converted into a multiuse center that will include retail, restaurants, entertainment and offices. […]

When the Obama Presidential Center campus was planned for construction in the Jackson Park neighborhood, residents became concerned about possible displacement. They asked in September for a written promise from […]