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George Washington planted vineyards and also ran a distillery. Thomas Jefferson was a passionate wine collector, sometimes called “America’s first vintner,” who once confessed “wine from habit has become an indispensable for my health.” Benjamin Franklin wrote that “wine is …

LaPamela Williams fue una de las docenas de personas que hicieron fila el lunes por la mañana para presentar las firmas que recopiló para postularse a un asiento en lo que pronto será la junta escolar completamente electa de Chicago. …

A third-generation Chicagoan from South Shore will be the Chicago Reader’s next publisher. Malik Jackson, who was previously the executive director and publisher of South Side Media Works, which oversees South Side Weekly and Hyde Park Herald, will join the …

Building out the front office was always priority No. 1 for the Bulls’ new man in charge Bryson Graham and that construction project officially broke ground on Tuesday. As multiple reports indicated last week, Stephen Mervis and Acie Law IV …

Two men are accused in an October shooting that left two boys, 16 and 17 dead and a 21-year-old man injured in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the city’s South Side. Omarion Roberson, 19 and Jarvis Bell, 32, were both …

Over hundreds of pages in legal filings this week, a group of well-known Chicago-based journalists, podcasters and voice actors accused tech giants including Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and others of “stealing” their voices to train artificial intelligence. The nine class-action …

Uno de los aliados más cercanos del alcalde Brandon Johnson en el Concejo Municipal llevó a cabo el lunes su amenaza de presentar una demanda acusando a los agentes federales de empujarla, esposarla y casi arrestarla después de que fue …

Will Johnson has lived near Garfield Park for about 40 years. So when he saw developers building new homes on his block, he was hesitant to embrace the change. But now that the homes are materializing, Johnson — who says …

Vocalo, la estación de radio musical local que ayudó a convertir a Chance the Rapper y Vic Mensa en raperos de renombre, está lista para lanzar un programa de llamadas en vivo con la esperanza de “dar forma a lo …

Chicago Inspector General-designate David Glockner vowed Tuesday to make timely judgments “independent of politics” and focus on improving systems of city government where the “impact is greatest.” Before being unanimously backed by the City Council’s Ethics Committee, Glockner said he …

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government will permanently drop tax claims against President Donald Trump, according to a settlement document that is part of a deal to resolve Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak …

A lockdown was lifted at West Chicago Community High School on Tuesday, the suburban school’s graduation day, after police deemed a phone threat to be unfounded. The school, at 326 Joliet St., went on lockdown around 11:40 a.m. after it …

Sky assistant coach Latricia Trammell was just thinking how happy she looked. Two days before the 25-year-old forward tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee, Trammell noticed her smile, her energy, her voice. Jackson kept telling reporters how …

The owner of an iconic Chicago steakhouse has filed a breach of contract lawsuit accusing Midway Airport’s master concessionaire of using the Gene & Georgetti name to secure an airport contract — only to terminate the agreement to make way …

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A former high-ranking Chicago cop has sued the city, police Supt. Larry Snelling and other officials alleging he was added to the city’s do-not-hire list based on bogus information about his disciplinary record. Michael Barz, who rose to the rank …

Live Nation Entertainment is being sued for negligence after a man allegedly assaulted an intoxicated 16-year-old girl at a Wiz Khalifa and Sean Paul concert last year in southwest suburban Tinley Park. In a news conference Tuesday in the Loop, …

A Chicago man has been charged with DUI after a fatal accident early Sunday on the Eisenhower Expressway that killed a man and injured at least six others, including himself, on the Near West Side. Jose F. Perez Marin, 21, …

The mother of an 18-year-old Mather High School student was ordered released from immigration custody by a federal judge on Tuesday, though the teen remains detained, according to the family’s lawyers. Ricardo Navarrete and his mother, Liliana Navarrete, were detained …