CHICAGO — You can still vote early in Chicago, but "voting often" is pretty much a thing of the past, some experts say. Chicago is famous for its history of people voting from the grave and for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HARLEM — A woman claims she discovered a rat's head in her Popeyes chicken. Rosemary Thomas said she found the fried head in her food at a Harlem Popeyes restaurant, at 2730 Frederick Douglass ...

Jonathan Crupi (left) was charged to 25 years to life after he was found guilty of murdering his wife, Simeonette Mapes, inside their New Springville apartment in 2012, prosecutors said. View Full ...

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 — Hispanics are officially the second-largest ethnic or racial group in Chicago, based on Census data released Thursday. Hispanics formed 29.7 percent of Chicago's population in 2016, based on ...

MANHATTAN — Celebrity jeweler Jeffrey Rackover’s family and friends have told him to cut ties with his adopted “son” who is accused in the gruesome murder of a Connecticut man in Sutton Place after a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...