UPTOWN — The North Side rapper who was the target of at least two fatal shootings in Rogers Park in recent years was gunned down Friday morning in Uptown, authorities said. Two bullets to the back ...

LAKEVIEW — From its perch just off Clark and Belmont, The Alley weathered 39 years, the ups and downs of punk and goth culture and endless changes along Lakeview's central intersection. In the end, it ...

CITY HALL — Of the 804 new Chicago Police officers hired in 2017, 41 percent are white, according to data provided to aldermen Thursday. Some 35 percent are Hispanic, 17 percent are black and 7 ...

DOWNTOWN — At its beginning headwaters deep into northern Lake County, the Chicago River is no deeper than a few inches and just 1½ feet wide. Chicago's famous river begins with three forks that start ...

The Lake Shore Drive S curve from 1970. The curve was redesigned in the 1980s. [Flickr Creative Commons/Roger W] DOWNTOWN — If you think driving on Lake Shore Drive as it passes through Downtown is a ...

CHICAGO — Fifty-four schools would be closed under a proposal released by Chicago Public Schools Thursday. Six schools would be placed on turnaround status, and 11 schools would be merged, some of ...

CHICAGO — Hard to believe, but there was a time when pizza in Chicago was a novelty, not a given, when restaurants specializing in it got more buzz than a Brendan Sodikoff spot and squirrels could ...

CHICAGO — Before Chief Keef got a shot at hitting it big in the rap game, the Englewood teen star was the target of shots — bullets fired at him by police — that missed, DNAinfo.com Chicago has ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published Jan. 18. DOWNTOWN — When violence in Chicago gets national media attention, one refrain is heard again and again: Bring in the National Guard! Before ...

HIGHLAND PARK — The famous glass and steel home that served as the set for Cameron Frye's house in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" is undergoing a historic renovation — and it's not because a bright red ...

CHICAGO — The Cubs are taking on the Mets, which means everyone's wondering: Is Chicago in for a disappointment like that of 1969, when the seemingly unstoppable Cubs collapsed while the Mets soared?

WILLIAMSBURG — State Senate candidate Debbie Medina, a longtime neighborhood tenant advocate, repeatedly hit her son with a belt during his childhood — information that was used to help him avoid the ...