Welcome to the first day of the year. Here’s a look back at what happened on January 1, according to the Tribune’s archives.

Digital checkouts from the Norwalk Public Library system have been up since the pandemic, the executive director said. What ...

A Cook County judge ruled members of the Chicago Public Schools board may have interfered with the district's CEO ability to do his duties, even after they voted to fire him last week. The Chicago ...

Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest news on Chicago Public Schools. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s hand-picked ...

The former director of the Markham, Ill., public library, Xavier Menzies, was sentenced to two years in federal prison for embezzling from the library over a decade, the Justice Department announced ...

What if that was not true? What if, even in this tight budget year, we members of Chicago's City Council could have collaborated to increase local investments in public health and safety using ...

Chicago Alderman Anthony Beale joins 'Fox & Friends' to discuss the scene inside the city's budget hearing as Mayor Brandon Johnson faces growing criticism for funding care and shelter for ...

An additional $215.4 million is accounted for through “structural” fixes, $175 million of which relies on Chicago Public Schools to pay for the Municipal Employees’ Annuity and Benefit Fund ...

63-year-old Chicago resident Chuck Hildebrandt attempted to return a book he borrowed 50 years ago from a library in suburban Detroit. The Warren Public Library, however, offered an unexpected ...

“The IHSA Board of Directors has heard the concerns from the public, and more importantly, from our member schools in the days since the completion of the IHSA’s fall state tournaments,” the ...

The Michelin Awards ceremony was held last night in New York, and one new Chicago restaurant joined the ranks of the city’s best. Cariño, the fine dining concept in Uptown, earned one Michelin ...

Chicago officials reportedly cleared the largest homeless encampment in the city after relocating some residents into apartments and shelter beds. According to the Chicago Sun Times, the ...