The Enviable Weather (Yep, You Read That Right)
Tell an outlander you’re from Chicago and you’re likely to hear some version of “But, man, the weather.” Sure, it gets chilly here, but it’s not as cold or snowy...
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Our City’s Championship Athletes Are Women
The Chicago Sky rose from a No. 6 seed to win its first-ever WNBA title, ending its dominant playoff run with a comeback clincher at the cozy Wintrust Arena that...
Chicago Botanic Garden to charge admission fee for first time in 50-year history
At the start of its 50th-anniversary year, the Chicago Botanic Garden will do something it never has before: Charge an admission fee. Citing a need to increase revenues that predates...
‘Dreyana Grooms’ aims to shoot in Chicago this summer. Dreyana Grooms is rooting for it and her second chance
Posing for photographs on the grounds of the Dearborn Homes development, Dreyana Grooms is approached by a building maintenance worker who wants to let her know police have been towing...
Reopening day: At the brewery, the ballpark and elsewhere, it’s a mostly cautious move back to normal
Not a whole lot will immediately change at her Forest Park brewpub now that the state has removed its COVID-19 constrictions, Katherine Valleau said midday Friday. For the first time,...
Nueva exhibición de Frida Kahlo en DuPage es la más completa del área de Chicago en décadas
La improbable exhibición de Frida Kahlo en el campus de un college comunitario del condado de DuPage tiene sus raíces en una situación aún más improbable: un esfuerzo por prevenir...
New Frida Kahlo exhibit in DuPage is Chicago area’s most comprehensive in decades
The unlikely Frida Kahlo exhibition on the campus of a DuPage County community college has its roots in an even more unlikely situation: an effort to forestall international tensions on...
Illinois Civil War Gen. John Logan made Memorial Day a national holiday. Before that, it’s complicated.
For a guy known for giving us Memorial Day, Gen. John A. Logan is not much remembered in these parts. Sure, protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention famously climbed...
‘Just as much to celebrate’: Sydney Jackson shifts protest strategy away from anger and toward joy
After helping to organize rallies following the police murder of George Floyd, Sydney Jackson is shifting their social-injustice protest focus from large-scale events to the more personal, and from expressions...
Epilepsy community says Chicago Bears’ Justin Fields revealing his condition is landmark moment
Among the most striking facts about epilepsy is the combination of how common it is and how it has not previously had a very high-profile personality who is public about...