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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.

Illinois has no shortage of wild moments on public transit, but this one might top the list. A video circulating online has social media buzzing over an eyebrow-raising scene that unfolded aboard a Chicago Transit Authority train, involving open flame, food, and just another level of nonchalance. According to footage..

A flash flood threat is moving across the country this weekend, starting in the Upper Midwest Today before reaching Chicago on Saturday and finally hitting New York City by Sunday night. Forecasters have placed a level 2 out of 4 flash flood threat over South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois on Friday, coverin

A social media showing a crew taking sledgehammers to a brand-new wooden fence went viral this week, and now we're learning more about what happened to cause the destruction. Originally, the homeowner was accused of calling ICE on the Hispanic workers who had installed the fence, and that accusation accompanied the vid

A commercial vehicle hit a bridge on the Edens Expressway Thursday evening in the north suburbs, hospitalized at least two people and shutting down all southbound lanes and two northbound lanes, Illinois State Police said.