The fourth annual festival opens at The Venue with a producer Q&A and an after-party at Craft Urban.

Mini-forests and reborn boulevards took top honors in a citywide design contest, though no funding plan exists yet.

Arbor Lodging is keeping the 295-room hotel but shopping 102 acres of fairways for redevelopment, with 47 acres already flagged as buildable.

A shared video showed cartoon figures shooting classmates; a hand-drawn map marked the school's lunchroom and nurse's office.

A morning argument on South Mason Avenue turned violent, leaving a 51-year-old man in critical condition at Mount Sinai Hospital.

CLATA's ninth annual Latino theater festival spans nine Chicago venues, from Belmont Cragin to Streeterville, through Oct. 11.

Veronica Reyes faces six felony counts after a three-month Barrington police probe into alleged contact with a teen she knew.

Corie Walsh, 40, allegedly called her 2-year-old son the “anti-Christ” before his death in Frankfort, Illinois.

Police investigated a shooting on Lincoln Avenue Wednesday after bullet holes were found in a 7-Eleven window and a nearby parked car.

A caller told 911 a student texted about a gun and bomb in a Freshman Division parking lot. Officers found nothing.

The 16-year-old walked into Swedish Hospital before being rushed to a Level I trauma center. No arrests have been made.

The Golden Globe-winning podcast hits Chicago October 18, with tickets already on sale for the all-ages show.

A semi and trailer were left mangled near the Chicago Skyway overpass after the top sheared clean off. Somehow, nobody was hurt.