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CHICAGO — Tens of thousands of art enthusiasts will gather in Chicago this month for the city’s largest art fair, Expo Chicago. While the 13th annual event brings in artists and galleries from around the world, there will also be a variety of Chicago artists presenting their work, like Black c
CHICAGO — Chicago displays signs of spring in a few ways: daylight stretches toward 8 p.m., daffodils start to bloom and Navy Pier becomes the United Nations of contemporary art. The international art world converges on the pier annually for Expo Chicago — this year from April 9-12. But that’s not t
NORTH CENTER — A man was arrested following a home invasion and attack of a woman in her North Center apartment early Friday, police said. Around 12:02 a.m. a woman was inside her apartment in the 4200 block of North Lincoln Avenue when a man she didn’t know entered via the front door, police said.&
LAKE MEADOWS — Hours after running from a hail of bullets, Darrius Fields returned to the scene where three people — including an 8-year-old girl — were wounded by gunfire at two Lake Meadows Shopping Center storefronts Wednesday afternoon. Fields, who lives in south suburban Dolton, said he was com
IRVING PARK — Like clockwork, Northwest Side favorite Miko’s Italian Ice reopened this week on April 1, very much not a joke and one of the surest signs spring is here. Both Miko’s locations — 2236 N. Sacramento Ave. in Logan Square and 4125 N. Kimball Ave. in Irving Park — are back
LINCOLN PARK — Artist Roger Brown’s former home and studio has cleared another key hurdle toward landmark status, months after preservationists warned the 19th-century building could be torn down. The Commission on Chicago Landmarks’ Program Committee voted unanimously Thursday to recommend the desi
WEST HUMBOLDT PARK — A renowned West Side comedian and actor is back in Chicago to promote children’s literacy and increase their access to books. Milton “Lil Rel” Howery led a story time event on behalf of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Thursday at the Nia Family Center, an early childhoo
WEST LOOP – Federal immigration agents have directly violated Illinois law at least five times by entering or waiting outside county court buildings in Chicago to make arrests, officials with the Cook County Public Defender’s Office said Thursday. The latest instance occurred around 11 a.m. Th
CHICAGO — They party. They graduate. Then they move to Chicago. Chicago bars bearing college flags from Iowa to Ohio have long tried to herd in Big Ten alumni looking to relive the glory days. With four Big Ten schools making it to March Madness’ Elite Eight this year, and two playing in the F
LOGAN SQUARE — Two popular vintage sellers are opening a Logan Square store specializing in Y2K European fashion and featuring late-night shopping hours. Nonstop Vintage opens Saturday at 2334 N. Milwaukee Ave. with a half-off sale. With its hard-to-miss large sign and racks of clothes and shoes see
EXPO Chicago—our city’s premier art fair, now in its 13th edition—returns this week, bringing with it gallerists, collectors, and art enthusiasts from around the globe.  Much ado has been made about the downsizing of this year’s fair—the first under the direction of Kate Sierzputowski and the t
A FIFA World Cup advertisement at Newark Liberty International Airport. The proposal comes just months before the games. It would hike taxes in a 30-square mile area centered around MetLife Stadium. [ more › ]
City sanitation commissioner Gregory Anderson met with Chinatown business leaders to go over changes to the city's trash collection rules. The sanitation department has spent nearly seven years working to implement reforms to rein in the city's notoriously dangerous private waste haulers.
New York City is losing jobs, making life more difficult for Mayor Zohran Mamdani as he seeks to close a big budget deficit while emphasizing economic justice rather than growth. The city lost 20,000 jobs in 2025 to end the year with employment of 4.823 million, according to revised job numbers rele
CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors added new charges Thursday against the man accused of fatally shooting Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman along the lakefront last month. Jose Medina, 25, remains in custody and already faces state charges that include murder. On Thursday, the Venezuelan national
When baseball returns to Yankee Stadium on Friday, two elevators at the neighboring subway station will remain on the disabled list — with their return to action still weeks away, according to the MTA. Contractors for the transportation authority have been replacing five elevators at 161st Street-Ya
Judge Jeth Jones with the 122nd Judicial District Court set a $1.5 million bond for a manslaughter charge and two $750,000 bonds for evidence tampering charges against 61-year-old James Elmore, according to bond records. A trial date for Elmore was set for August 31.
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters CHICAGO — Fifty Chicago leaders and organizations, including many Latino elected officials, want Chicago Public Schools’ soon-to-be permanent CEO to fill her cabinet and other senior leadership rol
LOGAN SQUARE — A Polish-American holiday that celebrates the nation’s culture, Easter and the arrival of spring will awaken the Hairpin Arts Center next week for the first time. The cultural arts group at the center, which sits on the Logan Square/Avondale border on the second floor of 2810 N.
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. On the campaign trail, Mayor Zohran Mamdani vowed to take a state mandate to slash class sizes seriously, saying it “will transform our students’ ability to learn.” “The question of compliance has
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