The city's civil action against Glock shows how a municipal legal department can be deployed as a weapon for reform.

Emma Goldman visited Anderson’s place at 837 West Ainslie Street, where, the anarchist observed, “the entire furniture consisted of a piano, piano-stool, several broken cots, a table, and some kitchen ...

Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen during Game Two of the 1998 NBA Finals against the Utah Jazz Photo: Phil Velasquez/Chicago Tribune The Last Dance, the ESPN docuseries about the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls ...

Unlike Arlington Park, its bucolic former counterpart, Hawthorne Racecourse has never been a lovely place to watch a horse ...

On the opening track of her gorgeous new album, Sad and Beautiful World, Mavis Staples raises her voice in a chorus that could serve as an anthem for this city: “Maybe things will be better in Chicago ...

Chicago is a fascinating city full of world-class architecture, theater, restaurants, museums, and bars. It’s a diverse city that always has something new to do and see. Chicago has much to offer, but ...

He’d had enough. Having been accused of sexual assault by a female acquaintance who lived in his Gold Coast apartment building, he was in a fight for, well, everything—his reputation, his career, his ...

When federal agents arrested Governor Rod Blagojevich two years ago—interrupting what the U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald called “a political corruption crime spree”—Robert Grant, head of the FBI’s ...

Most of the theatres in this photo essay were still in business when I started reviewing movies for the Sun-Times. In those days a lot of movies still opened in “the nabes,” of ten as double features, ...

Above, clockwise from top left: The Red Light Levitating Bluetooth Speaker, Your Personal Einstein Genius Homework Robot, the Hypnotic Jellyfish Aquarium, the Indoor Flameless Marshmallow Roaster, the ...

He was a ghost, in a way, the walking dead. Only he wasn’t dead, though he should have been, or would have been but for his own prescience. In a frozen corner of a park at an intersection in Des ...

When I first started interviewing Chicago youth about their interactions with the police, I never expected that I would spend a year and a half embedded with one of the most notorious gangs in the ...