While some popular Cinco de Mayo celebrations won’t be happening this year, deals and freebies are still being offered across the Chicago area in honor of the day. Though the May 5 holiday celebrates ...

May the force be with you! On Sunday, many in the Chicago area are celebrating their love for the Star Wars franchise.

Thousands gathered in Union Park Thursday morning before marching to Grant Park for a rally marking May Day, also known as ...

May Day — also known as International Workers’ Day — is a global holiday commemorating the labor rights movement, in which ...

The best stories featured in the opinion section from the 2024 to 2025 school year. Last year, the opinion section returned ...

A new exhibit and a mini festival presented by Jane Addams Hull-House Museum connects Hull House Theatre's history with today ...

She is a journalism graduate of Missouri State University and specialized in SEO ... Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act. Today, the event connects local and global environmental goals ...

Voters in those Illinois counties say they want to separate from Chicago and Cook County, saying voters in urban areas hold an outsized voice in Illinois politics, where Democrats hold a ...

Unique Simpson, 15, was last seen April 13 at the University of Chicago Hospital. She may be wearing a burgundy jacket, blue jeans, and black-and-white sneakers. Police are asking for the public ...

Brown graduates and students from the Class of 1964 through the University’s current classes comprise a 49-member event committee that represents many generations of Brunonians, as well as the ...

Wendy Freedman, the John and Marion Sullivan University Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago, has been named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025.

“The bar keeps moving, as far as who’s at risk,” says one staffer at the University of Illinois Chicago. The Trump administration’s move to terminate the legal immigration status of ...