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THE LOOP — When Nate Domingo moved to suburban Lake Villa from Hawaii during the pandemic, opening a restaurant wasn’t on his to-do list. The move was for his wife, Dianne, who would be attending graduate school in Downers Grove to get her master’s degree in biology with plans to become a dentist. B
LITTLE VILLAGE — With over 350 kennels for dogs and cats, it can be quite a noisy scene at Chicago Animal Care & Control. Now, a new program known as Sound Sessions is filling the halls of the city’s largest animal shelter with music. Sound Sessions brings in volunteer musicians who
UPTOWN — The newest social venue in the neighborhood aims to stir up your notion of nightlife, one handcrafted mocktail at a time. Everywhere Social Club, a queer, sober social club, is slated to open this summer in a rooftop space at 5050 N. Broadway. As a coffee house, community hub, educational s
BRONZEVILLE — A South Side dance and performance nonprofit is celebrating a milestone anniversary with the intention of returning to the “dream state” creative groups find themselves in during their earliest stages. Bronzeville-based Praize Productions Inc.’s 15th season, with a th
NOBLE SQUARE — A farmers market is launching this summer in one of West Town’s most prominent parks, and organizers are still seeking produce vendors and other merchants to set up shop. The inaugural Eckhart Park Farmers Market will kick off June 6. It runs 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays through
Ciro Sollazzi, 67, could be among the new beneficiaries for a housing voucher if the city expands the cityFHEPS program. The Mamdani administration said a package of laws to expand CityFHEPS is too costly. [ more › ]
Sweeping reforms to New York’s pension system long sought by public sector unions appear likely to be part of the final state budget, with Gov. Kathy Hochul, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins all publicly backing fixes to what is known as Tier 6. A
Gov. Kathy Hochul holds a news conference during a tour of the new Sol Apartments building on Tuesday, April 14, 2026. The proposal targets luxury pied-à-terre properties, which could raise $500 million as state budget talks run weeks late. [ more › ]
Commissioner Rodney Ellis plans to direct the Office of County Administration and the County Attorney's Office to come back with policy proposals on county immigration enforcement practices in June, a spokesperson said.
DOWNTOWN — Navy Pier will host its “largest and longest” fireworks display for a special Fourth of July show this summer commemorating the United States’ 250th birthday. The show will light up the lakefront with a 15-minute performance, fully choreographed to music and set against
New York City lawmakers are pushing to overhaul how people jailed on Rikers Island cast their votes after just 335 of roughly 6,000 eligible detainees cast absentee ballots in the last general election, officials said Tuesday. Lawmakers want to make it easier for people in custody to request absente
Trump administration officials took a victory lap Tuesday in Brooklyn to celebrate a natural gas pipeline that would serve customers in New York City and Long Island. But Gov. Kathy Hochul, whose environmental agency greenlit a key permit for the pipeline after three previous rejections, was a no-sh
LINCOLN PARK — The 42nd annual Chicago Latino Film Festival returns this week with a 12-day program featuring more than 80 feature and short films. The festival opens Thursday at Landmark Century Centre Cinema, 2828 N. Clark St., with a screening of “It Would Be Night in Caracas (Aún es de Noc
CHICAGO — The Chicago woman who became a police reform advocate after being the subject of a botched law enforcement raid is now in line to join a city police oversight board. Anjanette Young was nominated to join the Community Commission on Public Safety and Accountability last week by Mayor Brando
Ballabina initially served on the presidential search committee before recusing herself to apply for the job, according to the system, which said regents conducted a national search that produced a strong pool of candidates.
WEST TOWN — In what’s either a mea culpa, a bit of clever marketing or maybe both, a company whose food delivery robot smashed through the glass at a West Town bus shelter last month is now running an apology ad — at the very same bus shelter. In late March, a vehicle operated by Serve R
Kaori Patterson-Moore's casket is carried by a horse-and-buggy in Bed-Stuy on April 14, 2025. She was not the intended target in the East Williamsburg incident, officials say. [ more › ]
The city's housing authority has encouraged tenants with the expiring federal vouchers to apply for vacant public housing units. [ more › ]
SOUTH LOOP — One of the South Loop’s newest brunch restaurants was targeted in a Monday morning break-in, its owner and police said. At 3:45 a.m., three people took a sledgehammer to one of the front windows of Brûlée, 2036 S. Michigan Ave., taking an ATM, destroying a point-of-sale system and takin
UPTOWN — The first piping plovers have returned to Montrose Beach, the city’s popular plover spot. Chicago Piping Plovers, a group dedicated to protecting local plovers, announced on social media Monday that bird watchers identified two banded birds on the shores of Montrose Beach. Welcome hom
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