A thief spent just 20 seconds inside Bombastic Café before making off with a cash register, one of eight break-ins along Southport Avenue.

Joseph Panfil sold his two-decade-old Racine Street loft office to a rebranded addiction-treatment nonprofit, freeing up cash for a 500,000-square-foot McKinley Park redevelopment.

Anthony Reed Jr. was exploring an abandoned rock quarry near the Old Joliet Prison with four friends when he fell. A fundraiser has already topped $16,000.

Drifting cars scorched tire marks into 111th and Western as residents flooded 911 lines over the weekend.

Mickey and Minnie head south down Michigan Avenue on November 21 as the nation's largest evening parade lights over a million bulbs.

A sedan suffered major front-end damage in the Kostner and Congress Parkway crash; the cause remains unknown.

Poet Fatimah Asghar keynoted the South Asia Institute's daylong debut, which packed in 23 writers and a closing DJ reception.

The village board voted 4-0 to move the long-stalled monument to the park where a WWII tank already sits at Toft and Orchard.

The Legacy's 11-story build now includes a golf simulator and dog spa, plus 8 units at 60% AMI.

Nashville, Charlotte and Phoenix are among the routes vanishing from O'Hare this September as Frontier reshuffles its Chicago schedule.

A vehicle plowed into the Bon Bon Miami Convenience Store near Indiana and Miami streets, the latest impact along a corridor with a history of car-into-building wrecks.

Police say the 57-year-old victim knew his attacker, who was caught nearby and taken into custody.

Chicago's first Panda Fest brought squid, soup dumplings and a panda bouncy house to Butler Field this weekend.