NEW YORK CITY — Hurricane Sandy hit the city after dusk Oct. 29, 2012, killing 44 people, flooding entire neighborhoods and subways, and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of residents.

LINCOLN PARK — New megamansions, some taking up to seven city lots, are popping up all over Lincoln Park while developers continue to scoop up land. About a dozen projects are in the works to knock ...

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 — 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 ...

WILLIAMSBURG — A Brooklyn man was crushed to death by a malfunctioning elevator early Friday, according to the NYPD. Eran Modan, 37, originally from Tel Aviv, was in the elevator at 156 Hope St., ...

WRIGLEYVILLE — As the Cubs prepare for the start of this year's playoffs, fans should prepare for the end of one of Wrigley Field's oddest quirks. This is the last year for the outdoor bullpens along ...

BROOKLYN — Every morning at school, 7-year-old Uriyah Sidof prays for extra recess. Literally, he prays for it — at Lamplighters Yeshivah, the Jewish Montessori school he attends in the heart of ...

WASHINGTON PARK — If Richard M. Daley had his way, Chicago would already be brimming with the first of the up to 8 million visitors who were expected to descend on the city for the 2016 Olympic Games.

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 ...

“Principal down, principal down.” — Liz Dozier on CNN’s Chicagoland. ROSELAND — Fenger High School's superstar principal Liz Dozier has decided to leave the Chicago Public Schools behind. After six ...

For the most part, readers asked to draw their neighborhoods here accurately outlined the borders of the Gold Coast, Streeterville, River North and The Loop; the latter of which takes its name from ...

MANHATTAN — An 18-year-old Muslim college student who claimed three men screaming "Donald Trump!" attacked her on a Manhattan subway platform was arrested on charges of filing a false report after ...