Dan Jones was jolted awake around 1 a.m. Tuesday to the sound of federal agents trying to break through his apartment door. They couldn’t get past his double lock, so he went back to bed. But when he ...

Eight years after putting in place a tool that gauges kindergarten readiness, more children in Illinois are showing up to elementary school ready to go, but gaps between different groups of students ...

Illinois abortion providers are bracing for a surge of out-of-state patients following Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin’s pause on abortion appointments.

For the first time in almost seven years, the federal government is shut down, impacting more than 150,000 federal employees in Illinois.

Here’s how Yushell Alejandro Yin Del Toro sums up the three miserable days he recently spent at the federal facility in suburban Broadview, where federal officers hold immigrants after arresting them: ...

Compared to the summer music festival season and the winter holidays, fall festivities have a relatively short blooming period. But despite its brevity, Chicago’s fall arts and culture calendar is ...

Best known for her genre-blending horror novels, Cynthia Pelayo's "White Tiger: Reborn," written with Daniel José Older, tells the story of Ava Ayala, the new White Tiger.

The types of housing single women were afforded in Chicago at the turn of the century say a lot about society and residents.

Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy performed audience song requests, including ‘Jesus, etc.,’ at a live WBEZ event to kick off his book tour. Tweedy’s third book is a music memoir titled ‘World Within a Song.

U.S. Border Patrol agents wearing tactical gear and carrying long guns made arrests in downtown Chicago and the River North neighborhood Sunday. “This is not making anybody safer — it’s a show of ...

Cristóbal Cavazos leads a rapid-response effort to document ICE activity. Meet the man confronting Trump’s deportation blitz.

Trump’s wide-ranging and unprecedented address to military leaders in Quantico, Virginia comes a day after Gov. JB Pritzker said he’ had received word that the Department of Homeland Security wants to ...