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(The Center Square) – The Illinois Racing Board denied a request from Hawthorne Race Course to conduct horse races next year during its monthly meeting. It was not clear how or where the applicants would conduct races, as the Stickney course was sold earlier this year. Illinois Racing Board Executive Director Domenic D

Marcia and Carlon Lee spent months fighting to get an alleged squatter out of their South Side Chicago home. Now that the house is finally theirs again, a foreclosure notice […]

The longtime radio personality traveled to Switzerland to end her own life

Chicago's Robert's Pizza and Dough Company was named one of the world's 100 best pizzerias after also tying for #8 among pizza places in the United States.

There is no longer an outdoor refrigerator at the community center providing free food to those in need. On Wednesday, the Forest Park Fridge announced that it was closing the community refrigerator outside the north facade of the Howard Mohr Community Center on Des Plaines Avenue. “While the fridge was...

There’s a protocol when you go to Medieval Times. You cheer for the knight repping your section, and you boo the opposition. You’re also supposed to eat with your hands. And arguably, enjoying a few drinks can help some folks really get into spirit. Ronny Doitche (@ronnydoitche) tested a Chicago Medieval Times location

The U.S. Department of Labor has cited a Chicago area residential construction and carpentry employer after two separate investigations into its continued failure to provide fall protection for workers. The department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigated two worksites operated by Martin Araujo –

“My husband has a changed heart,” said Denise Bartik, who stood with a crowd of other advocates outside Governor J.B. Pritzker’s office in downtown Chicago on Thursday to call for compassion and a reinstatement of parole in Illinois. Jeff Bartik, her husband, has served 48 years in state prisons for murder. His clemenc

A second person has been charged with killing a man by pushing him out of a moving CTA Red Line train​ last week on the South Side.