Park 567 could soon bear the name of Cooper Link, the beloved Chicago artist known as Dont Fret, who died at 36.

MacArthur fellow Tonika Lewis Johnson and rapper Femdot host a Sunday mashup of art, music and mapping at Ramova Loft.

The 24-year-old building will get new layouts, tech upgrades and accessibility fixes without a tax rate hike, the library says.

Ashley Sanchez, 16, dreamed of becoming a prosecutor. A Cook County judge just handed her killer a 42-year sentence, with credit for 1,768 days already served.

Firefighters battled a rear fire at a West Town building with threatened neighboring structures.

Chicago starts Wednesday with rain and humidity, but a sunny, seasonable stretch arrives Thursday and Friday before weekend warmth returns.

Six candidates are vying for three Naperville Park Board seats as the district begins building its first indoor pools.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is sending campaign cash to Ohio and Texas races while insisting he is focused on a third term at home.

A minivan tore through a window at an Advocate outpatient clinic on Waukegan Road, hurting someone with flying debris.

Two Chicago alderpeople want to strip the historic Cortland Street Bridge's protections after its closure stretched past a year with no end date.

A years-long DEA investigation traced a 2020 overdose death back to Vincent Steven Calvin, who is now headed to federal prison.

The 17-year-old was shot in the head, the 14-year-old in the shoulder, just blocks from June's mass shooting of four boys.

A new Illinois law lets parents seek second opinions after a Chicago mom spent over a year fighting a wrongful abuse case tied to her son's bone disease.