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Friday will feature a return to mostly cloudy skies with 80-90% of the sky covered by clouds through midday, but brief glimpses of sunshine will be possible at times during the afternoon.

Since 2013, South Side Weekly’s Best of the South Side (BoSS) has celebrated the people, places and events that make the South Side an indelible vibe, a cherished destination, and most importantly, home sweet home. Of Chicago’s 77 community areas, we count 45 as being on the South Side....

Chicago's City Council Finance Committee voted this week to advance a $201.6 million tax increment financing subsidy for Foundry Park, a $3 billion mixed-use development planned for 31 acres along the Chicago River between Bucktown and Lincoln Park. The full City Council followed with its own vote the next day. It's th

A man in his eighties standing at a fryer window, lifting golden rings out of hot oil before most of Illinois has poured its first cup of coffee, is not something you expect to find on an ordinary city block. Yet that scene has played out for more than five decades at a humble donut shop where the fritters are huge, th

A black Lexus had already drawn a growing line of police vehicles behind it when one of its wheels finally gave up. The tire came off near Mannheim Road during a chase through Chicago’s western ... Read more

Chicago Public Schools shed 11,537 students in 2026-27, dropping to 304,687 enrolled — the lowest total in more than two decades — with the sharpest losses concentrated in predominantly Latino neighborhoods on the city's South and West Sides. Some of Chicago's most established immigrant community hubs — Pilsen,...

A 17-year-old boy and his mother are asking for the public's help in identifying the driver involved in a hit-and-run crash that left the teen seriously injured on Chicago's West Side while he was riding his e-bike.

Two people were killed in a shooting inside a residence in the Austin neighborhood Thursday night, Chicago police said.

CHICAGO — An investigation is underway on Friday morning after two people were fatally shot inside a home on the city’s West Side overnight. According to police, the shooting unfolded around 10:45 p.m. in the 800 block of North Parkside Avenue in Austin. Officers were first called to the scene following a report of gun

On this day (September 25) in 1930, poet, songwriter and all-around renaissance man Sheldon Allan “Shel” Silverstein was born in Chicago, Illinois. You might recognize him from his quirky children’s classics. Examples include A Light in the Attic, Where the Sidewalk Ends, and The Giving Tree. Less well known is Silvers