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We asked readers for CTA etiquette tips. Here’s what you said about riding on an L train or a bus in Chicago, lightly edited for clarity: “Keep purses close to the body, be on the lookout, give the singer a …

A mural in South Chicago celebrates Black and Brown communities working together to revitalize their neighborhood after the century-old U.S. Steel South Works mill was shut down more than 30 years ago. The image on the west-facing wall of the …

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Chicago. The city’s official Christmas tree lighting will take place on Friday in Millennium Park. The tradition has been going on for over 100 years in the city — here’s what …

It might be chilly in Chicago, but “Brat” spring is coming. Charli XCX — who made waves with her 2024 album “Brat” — announced four U.S. tour stops on her Brat 2025 Arena Tour, including a show at Allstate Arena …

A 28-year-old man was fatally shot Friday morning in the South Shore neighborhood. The man was shot several times about 6:10 a.m. Friday in the 7300 block of South Phillips Avenue, Chicago police said. The wounded man was dropped off …

A Cook County Jail detainee who had been locked up for a week was allegedly found in possession of a handgun while he was being released from custody earlier this week, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned. The silver and black …

Blue Man Group, the dialogue-free, three-blue-faced-persons show combining music, mime, art and audience participation — not to mention a whole lotta Cap’n Crunch cereal, PVC piping and marshmallows — is ending its historic run in Chicago, it was announced Friday. The last …

A man possibly trying to stay warm apparently started a fire in a storage area for a popular Lincoln Park restaurant early Friday. The man and a firefighter were taken to hospitals when propane tanks began burning at 4:20 a.m. …

Connor Bedard may not have a particularly effusive personality, but there has always been an unmissable element of defiance beneath his polished, polite public persona. Right now, deep into the biggest slump of Bedard’s NHL career to date, that defiance …

Soy maestra de Educación para Adultos en los City Colleges de Chicago (CCC, por sus siglas en inglés). Como la mayoría de los maestros de educación para adultos del sistema, imparto una combinación de inglés como segunda lengua y clases …

SoxFest is back, people. For the most part, anyway. The White Sox haven’t hosted a winter fan festival since January 2020, an absence that — by the time the last two offseasons rolled around — struck many as being a …

Despite being listed as questionable, Bears running back D’Andre Swift will play Sunday against the Vikings. “No questions asked,” Swift said Friday. Exactly how much, though, is a different question after new offensive coordinator Thomas Brown gave backup running back …

Kenwood opened last season with the No. 1 ranking and barrels of hype. The season didn’t go as planned, but that is all in the past. Interim coach Joseph Mason has a loaded, motivated team ready to tip off against …

Ahead of the holidays, consumer watchdogs are warning parents not to buy dangerous toys from international sellers for prices that are “too good to be true.” At a news conference Friday about the Trouble in Toyland 2024 report at Lurie …

Hospitals around the country are conserving intravenous fluid supplies to cope with a shortage that could last months. Some hospital administrators say they are changing how they think about IV fluid hydration altogether. Hurricane Helene, which hit North Carolina in …

The Indiana Hoosiers aren’t going to rip themselves, so let’s get to it. Take a wild guess which unbeaten, fifth-ranked college football team has made it through nearly three months of arguably the greatest season in school history without having …

A pesar de una serie de protestas de grupos comunitarios y residentes, la Comisión de Planificación de Chicago aprobó el jueves los planes para volver a zonificar más de 400 acres de tierra en la que fuera la instalación de …

It’d be merely a footnote anyway, but the Packers’ blocked field goal to beat the Bears on the final play Sunday was reviewed by the NFL and determined to be a clean play. The league informed the Bears this week …

A look at some of the best semifinals this weekend. Class 8A: No. 2 Loyola at No. 1 Lincoln-Way East, 6 p.m. Saturday This game — a rematch of the last two Class 8A finals, both won by Loyola — …

When Tony Clark first visited Chicago 11 years ago, he said he saw homeless people experience “a different kind of horror.” Winters here, the Australian said, are on another level. “I had never seen horizontal ice,” he says. Clark was …