Nearly 300 people, including dozens of Chicago science teachers, filled the sold-out Jackson Park forum on comedy and civics.

Chicago’s Saturday stays mostly dry near 80, but Sunday brings a chance of storms before a hotter week takes over.

A Parks employee found the body Friday morning after seasonal lifeguard cuts left Lee Street Beach unwatched. Police say no ID has been found yet.

Davaughn Walker, 25, died of multiple gunshot wounds on Cooper Avenue. It's Harvey's third fatal shooting investigation since late July.

Thousands of LED candles and a string quintet reimagine “Bootylicious” and “Survivor” inside a hotel built for the 1893 World's Fair.

Chicago police say the suspect fled on a black bicycle after the daytime assault at the Augusta Boulevard pool. No arrest has been made.

A struggle inside a North Lavergne Avenue home early Friday left an armed intruder wounded and hospitalized, Chicago police say.

A 30-year-old man was robbed by six armed suspects near the Loop lakefront before one jumped into his fleeing car and fired a shot.

Autopsy findings show Eduardo Martinez was strangled after his friends found him dead in his Cicero home.

A ransomware attack once locked Chicago water department computers for two months, officials say, even as the city races to shield the world's largest filtration plant.

A stolen Knight Transportation trailer full of Nike sneakers meant for Dallas ended up in a Des Plaines cargo yard instead.

Pizzeria Gabbo will pour Chicago Thin & Crispy and New York-style slices with 20-plus wines by the glass, this fall.

Iowa's Big Grove Brewery has a contract to buy the Palatine landmark and plans a restaurant and taproom by the Metra stop.