On Ogden Avenue in North Lawndale, a 50-foot pillar wrapped in a mural is a beacon for the free mural park to come alongside it.

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The Oak Park Regional Housing Center and Pivotal Housing Partners out of Cincinnati – are restoring the Laramie State Bank building.

Open Books and the University of Illinois Chicago are hosting free college application essay workshops for high school students.

There’s a new initiative to strengthen food access on the West and South Sides of Chicago — where, respectively, 45% and 51% of homes are food insecure, according to a 2026 report by the Greater ...

Justin White Foreva is a full-time painter who’s legally blind. He has the progressive eye condition keratoconus ...

If you drive south along Austin Boulevard, past the Eisenhower Expressway, you’ll find The Island, a quiet residential pocket tucked into the far southwest corner of Chicago’s West Side. Separated ...

Ex-Loretto Hospital executive Anosh Ahmed and his contractor pal Sameer Suhail reportedly celebrated New Year’s Eve last year alongside Ken Paxton.

Labor activists and former workers at a West Side manufacturer that makes seating for the CTA rallied Wednesday in protest of what they described as low wages, hazardous working conditions and ...