In his relatively short career, John Candy created a slew of scene-stealing characters in movies, including several filmed in the Chicago area. There is the orange whip-loving parole officer in “The ...

The life of an artist can take many twists and turns. For Kurt Elling, a native Chicagoan who has made it to the mountaintop in the world of jazz with two Grammy wins, that path leads to Broadway. The ...

Local playwright Zayd Dorhn said he began writing “Revolution(s)” after the police killing of Ferguson resident Michael Brown led to an uprising.

Much has been made about a first-of-its-kind “global” settlement Chicago has reached to close 176 lawsuits tied to corrupt former police sergeant Ronald Watts. Watts operated out of the now-demolished ...

The Latina Comedy Festival is kicking off its fourth year — and largest festival — on Thursday, more than doubling the acts from seven last year to 20 this year. It’s also happening during Hispanic ...

The Chicago Bears head back to Springfield this month looking to get a bill across the goal line to help them build a new stadium in Arlington Heights. The team has been stuffed at the legislative ...

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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: ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...