Nine of the team’s 15 athletes are competing in the Chicago Marathon on Sunday, some of whom are Paralympic medalists and ...

Dark energy—the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the universe’s greatest mysteries. The most widely accepted theory currently suggests ...

After federal immigration agents broke down the front door of an Elgin home and detained four people this week, the Department of Homeland Security featured them in a news release that declared they ...

Western Illinois University recorded another drop in fall enrollment, a near 20-year trend. The school reported a fall 2025 enrollment of 5,337 students, down from 6,332 in fall 2024, a drop of almost ...

The University of Chicago on Sept. 16 celebrated the opening of Hyde Park Labs, a new commercial laboratory facility that will help advance science research and entrepreneurship on Chicago's South ...

Four weeks until the opening of his new exhibition, and the artist Theaster Gates is at the Smart Museum, on the University of Chicago campus, helping fabricators install a work that includes many ...

Online health record giant MyChart just slipped a clause into its terms and conditions barring patients from suing the firm for mishandling their health data. The next time patients log into the ...

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A new 300,000 square-foot commercial lab space in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood will help grow some of the startups that get spun out of the University of Chicago. Hyde Park Labs, at 5207 S. Harper ...

A guy I knew in college once told me, as I struggled to make a point in a dorm lounge argument, that I had “the verbal acuity of shampoo.” The put-down was so devastating that it immediately ended ...

Four men were injured in a South Side shooting on Friday night, Chicago police said. Police said officers responded to a report of people shot in the Englewood neighborhood's 6600-block of South ...