Marian “Cindy” Friend Pritzker, the matriarch of one of Chicago’s most powerful families, has died at the age of 101. She was ...

She was 101 years old. A statement from her family did ... Pritzker and mother of their five children. She headed the Chicago Public Library Board and with her husband co-founded the Pritzker ...

To mark its bicentennial, the Brooklyn Museum highlights the pieces that have shaped its collection—and the foundational art ...

A documentary critical of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians was screened at the Northbrook Public ... library in September and October, she said. Before the first planned screening, the Chicago ...

Our mayor needs to lead here, and he can start by breaking ties with the Chicago Teachers Union and other unions and seek a ...

Earlier, as a member of the Chicago Public Library board and later its president, she wrestled with plans for a new central library — whether to remodel the Goldblatt's Building on State Street ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The battle is heating up between Chicago Public Schools and City Hall over making a pension payment or finalizing new contracts with teachers and principals. It's turning into a ...

A former Canaryville Irish saloon on South Halsted Street is jam-packed with connections that reflect several significant moments in Chicago’s history.

As President Donald Trump floats grand ideas like reacquiring the Panama Canal and taking over Greenland, some rural residents of Illinois and Oregon are promoting geopolitical change of their own: Th ...

The Village of Creston and Dement Township community will soon have to get their books and movies at a new location.

The shooting happened at about 2:31 a.m. near Hudson and Evergreen avenues in Old Town, Chicago police said. Officers responded to a call of a person shot when they found a 44-year-olf man with a ...