CPS has offered some arts programs, but the 1970s marked a significant decline in funding for the arts across the United ...

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Jahmal Cole, founder and CEO of My Block, My Hood, My City, joins Lisa Dent to share an update on his mission to live in all 77 of Chicago’s neighborhoods — what Cole calls his “listening tour.” ...

My strategy was to try to include as many representations of people as I thought was possible,” Ali Cantarella says.

Hawksmoor, twice named Best International Restaurant Bar by the Tales of the Cocktail Foundation and a 2025 James Beard Award ...

Project Safe Neighborhoods, led by the U.S. Justice Department, has been in place since 2001 in seven of the city's West and ...

There are also Greek fests in Lincoln Square and Lincoln Park, Ribfest, the 57th Street Art Fair in Hyde Park, a free environmental fest in Welles Park and Hard Core Cider Fest in Rogers Park.

Many Chicagoans know Tom Bachtell for his two decades (until 2018) of iconic illustrations for the New Yorker magazine's ...

During the COVID-19 lockdown, a band of masked robbers terrorized the city. It turned out they were just kids. Now, cops say ...

It’s springtime in Chicago. Not only have we survived the cold, but farmers market season is in full swing. Many ...

Skillman Foundation CEO focuses on "moving obstacles away from young people so that they could lead us all somewhere ...