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ENGLEWOOD — Two music festivals will take over the South Side this weekend, bringing live R&B performances, pop-up art activations, food vendors and more to Englewood and Auburn Gresham. Back for its sixth year, the Englewood Music Festival will return noon-7 p.m. Saturday at 6400 S. Halsted St. Syleena...

There are places in this world that locals protect like a family recipe, never written down, never shared with outsiders, and absolutely never posted on the internet. Prime Time Restaurant and Bar in Hickory Hills, Illinois has been one of those places, and the secret is officially out. Here’s the...

CHICAGO - A 15-year-old boy has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with an April shooting that killed a 16-year-old boy and seriously injured a 16-year-old girl on Chicago’s South Side. The teen was arrested Wednesday in the 6700 block of South Cregier Avenue, police said. Deadly shooting...

Legendary Chicago pizzeria Lou Malnati's is opening a new restaurant in the western suburbs. The restaurant, at 3050 E. Main St. in St. Charles, will take the space of a former eatery in the area's new Fox Haven Square development. According to a release, the restaurant will be Lou Malnati's 71st location.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is proposing the Protecting Renters Ordinance (PRO), which would regulate rental fees, expand tenant protections and provide legal assistance to renters. The proposal would require relocation assistance for some no-fault lease nonrenewals and create a city bureau to oversee landlord compli

A 16-year-old boy died after being found shot in Grant Park's skate park in the South Loop Wednesday night, Chicago police said.

A woman who was shot multiple times outside her South Side home said she feared she would not survive the attack after a gunman opened fire as she prepared to take her daughter to school.

A 21-year-old man was stabbed in the Loop early Thursday morning during a fight, Chicago police said.

There’s a special kind of thrill that comes from wheeling a cart down an aisle where nothing costs what you expect. Somewhere in Illinois, tucked along country roads and busy city streets, are stores where a slightly dented can or a nearly-expired box turns into a jaw-dropping deal. These...

For four days, a Chicago man emailed the city’s Office of Inspector General warning that he planned to kill his neighbor. On the fifth day, according to prosecutors, he did. And, incredibly, it happened almost a year after Chicago police failed to arrest him for allegedly shooting another neighbor outside the same Sout