Chicago News

By now, Streetsblog readers know all about how the Illiana Tollway, a proposed highway that will see little use and cost taxpayers $500 million, has messed up our regional plan.

The August Wilson Monologue Competition, sponsored by The League of Chicago Theatres, Goodman Theatre, and the University of Illinois at Chicago, and organized in Chicago by Derrick Sanders, will hold the Chicago Finals on Monday, March 10, 2014 at 6:00pm at the Goodman Theatre, 170 North Dearborn St - the first theatre in the world to produce all ... (more)

On March 4, 2014, in a huge victory for animal rights, Chicago's city council voted 49-1 to ban the sale of pets that come from mills in Chicago pet stores .

The Irish have a long and storied history in Chicago. The Saturday before St. Patrick's Day is the day that all of Chicago's Irish and I suspect a lot of non-Irish pretending to be Irish come out to celebrate Ireland.

BaderbrA u/Atlas/Radler Collaboration Atlas Brewing Company , 2747 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago 773-295-1270 BaderbrA u has teamed up with Atlas Brewing Company and The Radler , the modern day German beer hall in Logan Square, to create Tricycle , a limited edition German ale.

According to Leor Galil, Ty Dolla $ign's singing and rapping talents may just overshadow his dirty lyrics-his "golden voice and smooth, intoxicating delivery make his words seem less raunchy, and he's so flattering and matter-of-fact about his propositions that it's easy to forget that he's operating outside just about every human female's comfort ... (more)

Mayor de Blasio is headed to Chicago on Thursday to hobnob with other prominent mayors in his second out-of-town appearance since taking office.

Bailiwick Chicago will launch its 2013-14 season with the Chicago premiere of the thrilling musical drama DESSA ROSE by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty , the Tony Award-winning team behind Ragtime, Once on This Island and Seussical!, directed by Artistic Director Lili- Anne Brown with music direction by Collective Member James Morehead.

A new study analyzing the origins of the adipose fin, thought by some to be vestigial, finds that these fins arose repeatedly and independently in multiple species -- a striking example of convergent evolution.

INTO THE WOODS , directed by Geoff Button* with Musical Direction by Matt Deitchman, previewing February 6, opening Tuesday, February 11 at 7:30 p.m. and running through Sunday, March 30. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and the book by James Lapine, The Hypocrites bring their heightened and playful sense of theatricality to the beloved ... (more)

A four-month-old baby gorilla at Brookfield Zoo outside Chicago now has a name after the public cast thousands of votes.

The 8-episode series will debut on Thursday, March 6 at 10p.m. on CNN. . This image released by CNN shows Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a scene from the CNN documentary, "Chicagoland."

When President Barack Obama spoke out last week against the crime, violence and poverty that ensnares young men of color in epidemic numbers, he might have been voicing a promo for "Chicagoland," the docuseries debuting Thursday on CNN.

The retail sale of commercially bred dogs, cats and rabbits in Chicago would become a thing of the past under a new ordinance set for a City Council vote on Wednesday.

Wicker Park has undergone great change in the past twenty years, and whatever anti-gentrification sentiment remains isn't acted out as dramatically as it often was in the 90s.

Those fledgling protests that erupted in Ukraine last fall have led to changes that seemed like a long shot at the time, including the ouster of president Viktor Yanukovych.

A pair of pimps kidnapped a 13-year-old runaway girl from a West Side street and forced her into prostitution, the feds say.

"Everyone loves a parade." "On St. Patrick's Day everyone is Irish." It's difficult to find the origin of either of those quotes, but combined they define the entire Chicago area beginning more than a week before the actual St. Patrick's Day on March 17. Maybe it's the large population of Irish in Chicago, or maybe it's an excuse for the first ... (more)