How Chicago is preparing for stepped-up deportation raids. The end of an era at the Chicago Defender. The latest on Humboldt Park’s scaly visitor. And Chicago’s top social media...

The latest in the sentencing of Brendt Christensen. The danger of potential earthquakes in Illinois. An update on the alligator in the Humboldt Park Lagoon. And an artist whose medium is...

A local push for an accurate 2020 census count. The campaign to keep a Pilsen church open. Expressing climate science through art. And a new production of “The Music Man” goes beyond “76...

New relief for people who have their cars impounded by the city. Preparing for life-and-death decisions in the ICU. And the impact of the U.S. women’s soccer team’s World Cup victory.

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Chicago City Council leaders on their top priorities. Are self-focusing glasses around the corner? A new direction for a former mayoral candidate. And all the food that’s fit to fry.

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A look at what services the state might tax. The first female federal chief judge in Chicago history. The latest on electric scooters. And the young guitar prodigy some call the future of...

The city looks to a newly appointed “chief risk officer” to save money. A book about Elie Weisel by a Chicago Tribune critic whose parents were Holocaust survivors. And finding Chicago’s...

Another round of City Council legal woes as former 20th Ward Ald. Willie Cochran is sentenced to one year in prison for misuse of campaign funds, less than a week after federal authorities...

Paris Schutz and guests discuss the first round of Democratic primary debates ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

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Inside the Supreme Court’s blockbuster rulings. Analysis and a preview of the Democratic presidential debates. A South Side festival devoted to house music. And the beauty of Chicago-style...