One year after Illinois became the first state in the nation to eliminate the use of cash bail, the impact on the state’s ...

Veneeta Phelps was watching the news one night last January when she learned that the city would soon open a shelter for ...

Andre Smith, a finance manager and founder of a violence prevention nonprofit, is running for the 6th District school board ...

Campaigning in Chicago’s historic school board race is ramping up, and so are financial and in-kind contributions to ...

At 177 years old and with a wealth of space in the heart of Hyde Park, KAM Isaiah Israel is looking for new ways to open its ...

The Obama Foundation raised a little more than $129.3 million for its programming and ongoing construction of the ...

Twelve-year-old Edith Huffman looks to the sky pensively as she listens to the buzz of cicadas in the backyard of her ...

I'm a sucker for alternative historical realities, so I was intrigued to learn that Black Button Eyes Productions was staging ...

It is always a pleasure to discover a talented and promising young pianist, but when he is also a composer, that’s a double ...

In 1924, a group of Egyptologists from the University of Chicago set out to record the inscriptions on the walls of the 3,000 ...

A federal judge on Friday denied Illinois' request to end court oversight of its disability services. Judge Sharon Johnson ...

The city is set to close the migrant shelter operating out of East Hyde Park’s Lake Shore Hotel by the end of next month, ...