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 ...

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 ...

PILSEN — On 19th Street — in the home where her mother died and her daughter was raised — Amalia Alejo scans the block. "Instead of more Mexicans on my block, right now, we have more Anglos," Alejo ...

Edward Giaimo told his brother and sister shortly before his death in 2007 that he had hidden millions of dollars in silver and gold. Giaimo's brother believed that the precious metals could have been ...

DOWNTOWN — It's been about 10 years since "Cloud Gate," aka "The Bean," was "birthed," as one official said at the time. The sculpture wasn't yet finished when a huge tent that had shrouded it was ...

HARLEM — The chief suspect in the murder of rapper Big L in 1999 was gunned down in Harlem Thursday night, sources said. Gerard Woodley, 46, who is suspected in four other homicides, was in front of ...

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 ...

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 ...

RIVER NORTH — MK Restaurant, an upscale outpost of Chicago chain DMK Restaurants, is closing next week after 18 years in River North. The restaurant led by chef Michael Kornick at 868 N. Franklin St.

CHICAGO — A 21-year-old man fatally shot in Chatham Saturday afternoon has been identified as McArthur Swindle, a rapper who performs as OTF Nunu, and the cousin of prominent Chicago rap star Lil Durk ...

Gold Star Bar's owner Susan Stursberg (l.) died in 2012; her mom runs the bar. [Gold Star Bar/Facebook] CHICAGO — If the walls of Chicago's oldest bars could talk, you would need to pull up a stool ...

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.