Instead of building individual homes on scattered sites, Reclaiming Chicago aims to transform whole neighborhoods at once, ...

CHICAGO — This side of the Emerald Isle itself, there may be no better place to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day than Chicago, a city with a proud and deep-rooted Irish community. Chicago’s St. Patrick’s ...

On December 2, 1942, 49 scientists gathered beneath the west stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago. Enrico Fermi, the Italian physicist who had fled fascism four years earlier, directed ...

Springfield, Illinois, the state capital, is that rare unicorn of a city where your rent won’t make you cry into your morning coffee. You can actually find studio apartments here for around $500 a ...

In Springfield, that same amount can cover a one-bedroom apartment at around $650, utilities running about $150, and still leave you with $700 for groceries and other essentials. That’s not fantasy ...

1890: “Great is Chicago. It gets the World’s Fair.” The city was awarded the event by the U.S. House of Representatives on ...

For 13 years in a row, South Shore’s multifamily market had an argument for being crowned the hottest in Chicago. From 2011 through 2023, the predominantly Black lakefront community just south of ...

Fulton Market’s condo market is about to test a new ceiling. Two penthouses at Fulton Bond, a 149-unit development by Sulo ...

CHICAGO — Between 1910 and 1970, as many as six million African Americans fled the segregation of the South in search of the American Dream and the freedoms it promised. The pursuit of life, liberty ...

Throughout his career, historian Carter G. Woodson, AB’1908, AM’1908, worked to change how Americans thought about Black history. The University of Chicago alum began that mission when, in February ...

It’s become a common refrain in South Africa: there’s no drought, dams and reservoirs are full, but the taps are dry. The ongoing crisis has been decades in the making. South Africa is a water-scarce ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Two people were shot in their vehicle on Chicago's South Side Wednesday afternoon before crashing, Chicago police said. A 26-year-old woman and 27-year-old man were in the vehicle in ...