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Rosie Dawson believes if you save one house, you can save an entire block. After a ribbon-cutting Monday for the affordable housing community The Avenue Apartments, at 5246 W. Chicago Ave., Dawson believes Chicago Avenue is one step closer on …

Some 136 newspapers in the United States have closed in the past year, news deserts are expanding and web traffic to the nation’s top newspapers has dropped markedly this decade, according to a report issued Monday that struggles to find …

Good morning, Chicago. ✶ 🔎 Below: A federal judge ruled that during a deposition, Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino can be asked how — not why — the feds are enforcing the law and whether they’re violating protesters’ constitutional rights. …

A swimmer and high school senior at Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School has gone missing. Estefania Herrera, 18, was last seen Friday wearing a black and white checkered fleece top and blue jeans, Chicago police said. Herrera is 5-foot-4, …

Charges were pending for one suspect and police were looking for several more after a man was beaten and robbed at gunnpoint on a CTA Red Line train early Tuesday on the South Side. The 55-year-old man was riding on …

Goalkeeper Chris Brady was 13 years old when the Fire last played in an MLS playoff game. Along with his academy teammates, the teenage Brady was in the stands in Bridgeview on Oct. 25, 2017, when the Fire lost 4-0 …

Fueled by the big dream of filming in Korea, James Choi’s film “Before The Call,” centers on a Korean American returning to Korea to enlist in the military. This global story was a bold move that Choi completed in an …

En un movimiento que los defensores consideran potencialmente “catastrófico”, la administración del presidente Donald Trump planea retener la financiación de cupones de alimentos si el cierre del gobierno federal no se resuelve para fin de octubre, dejando a 1.9 millones …

El comandante general de la Patrulla Fronteriza de Estados Unidos, Gregory Bovino, deberá presentarse a declarar en una demanda en curso relacionada con el trato que le han dado las autoridades a los manifestantes durante la agresiva campaña de deportaciones …

A Calumet City man is charged in the fatal shooting a 40-year-old woman who attempted to de-escalate a fight he was having with his girlfriend early Saturday in Fuller Park on the South Side. Demar King, 35, was charged with …

Large portraits of tattoo icons Tatts Thomas and Ralph Johnstone watch over Nick Colella as he works. “Both of those guys tattooed on the 400 block of South State Street where the Harold Washington Library is,” said Colella, owner of …

Uno de los filmes latinos y en español que integran la programación de la edición 61 del Festival Internacional de Cine de Chicago (ChiFilmFest) es “Emi”, una coproducción de Argentina y Uruguay. Del director Ezequiel Erriquez Mena —quien además es …

Blackhawks goalie Spencer Knight isn’t required to understand the nitty-gritty details of coach Jeff Blashill’s systems, so he intentionally doesn’t learn them. “Even in practices, I couldn’t tell you what drill we’re doing,” Knight said. “Personally, I don’t like knowing …

A 13-year-old bicyclist was fatally struck by a semitruck Monday afternoon in Manhattan, Illinois. Police and fire officials responded to the intersection of State and East North around 5:35 p.m. and found the boy unresponsive under the truck, Manhattan police …

Manuel Castro dice que su teléfono ha estado sonando incesantemente con llamadas de personas en el área de Chicago que quieren volver a México en lugar de arriesgarse a ser atrapadas en una redada de inmigración agresiva, detenidas y deportadas. …

One of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s closest City Council allies Tuesday laid the groundwork for filing a lawsuit accusing federal agents of shoving, handcuffing and nearly arresting her after she went to a hospital emergency room to check on a constituent …

Billy Donovan admittedly doesn’t know what Matas Buzelis, Josh Giddey or Coby White are “going to look like four years from now.” A player like Buzelis could be a perennial All-Star and the face of the Bulls franchise by then. …

A seasoned Chicago architecture firm is pitching a 29-story tower on a vacant lot in Fulton Market. Thomas Roszak Architecture wants to develop the high-rise at 1200 W. Carroll Ave., at the corner of West Carroll and North Racine avenues. …

There are a lot of unknowns when it comes to the Public League as we enter the 2025-26 high school basketball season. Is there a dominant team? Is there even a true team to beat? Who will be this year’s …

The Bears cut defensive end Tanoh Kpassagnon for the second time in five days Tuesday. The 31-year-old was released from the 53-man roster Friday and added to the practice squad Saturday. He played at least one-fifth of the Bears’ defensive …