Michael Madigan’s defense team rested Thursday, nearly three months after opening statements and testimony began in the ...

Artist and photographer Tonika Lewis Johnson and sociologist Maria Krysan compiled Chicagoans’ stories in their new book. The ...

Frida Kahlo lived a dramatic and creative life that continues to inspire. Playwright and performer Vanessa Severo tells the ...

"These gifts are, by definition, city property; if they are squirreled away and hidden from view, people are only left to ...

An officer who was part of the team that fired 96 times in 41 seconds in the fatal shooting of Dexter Reed resigned from the ...

Most people don’t even know about it. We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens ...

Illinois was one of 22 Democratic-led states that filed suit Tuesday asking a federal court to block the sudden pause on ...

In a contentious confirmation hearing to be the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. struggled to answer ...

Jury deliberations finally got underway Wednesday afternoon in the landmark corruption trial of powerful Illinois House ...

Asian American communities around the U.S. will ring in the Year of the Snake with community carnivals, family gatherings, ...

WTTW News producer Josh Terry presents must-see live music shows from indie rock to jazz, country, hip-hop and more.  Daily ...

State Rep. Sonya Harper (D-Chicago), sponsor of the Enslavement Era Disclosure and Redress Act, said it’s a way for corporations that profited on the backs of enslaved people to help repair the legacy ...