The Summit conference for the tourism and hospitality industry took place this week and many attendees felt hopeful but also ...

A Better Chicago’s 2025 State of Our Youth report has identified mental health struggles, community violence, and chronic ...

Many research projects at Northwestern University are coming to a stop. The Trump administration is cutting $790 million ...

His family has no idea how to reach Yeison Rodrigo Jaimes-Rincon again after recognizing him in video of a U.S. official ...

The claims are part of the Justice Department's lawsuit against the city, county and state challenging sanctuary policies.

Chicago Park District data shows how much costs for day camps fell in 2020 and how they've steadily risen back to ...

While in Chicago, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said he isn’t changing interest rates as the nation faces a potential ...

The maple and spruce violin was a gift from Cyrus Spurlock's older brother, who crafted it himself. Spurlock was sitting on a ...

From barbershops to bakeries, business owners are worried about how they'll sustain themselves in the coming months.

Between changes at the National Endowment for the Humanities and a shake-up at Chicago’s DCASE, humanities organizations are ...

Folk music became popular with youth in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. As alcohol-free third spaces, coffeehouses were key to that ...

A nearly three-year upswing ended last summer, WBEZ finds. The first three months of 2025 had the fewest robberies of any ...