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Today is St. Patrick's Day. You can hardly miss it: In Chicago they dye the Chicago River green, even when, as is the case this year, the river is frozen.

Lake Shore Drive completely reopened around 4:20 a.m. this morning, according to Chicago police, hours after a standoff lasting more than 8 hours closed lanes in both directions.

Columbia College's Chicago Story Week hosts a Q&A today called Why the Short Story?, with authors Stuart Dybek, Roxane Gay, Christine Sneed, and Katey Schultz.

One of Alvin Lucier's best-known works is a minimalist 1969 piece for voice and tape called I Am Sitting in a Room .

A Chicago apartment investor that has focused on buying distressed buildings in the city is taking another swing in the suburbs, paying nearly $13 million for 238 apartments in Glen Ellyn and Addison.

In the latest sign of China's growing interest in U.S. real estate assets, a Chinese investor last week teamed up with a local Chicago firm to buy a 65-story office building in America's third-largest city for $304 million.

A 31-year-old Calumet Park woman was ordered held on a $10 million bond Sunday after being charged with murder in connection with a police chase early Friday morning that killed an off-duty Chicago police officer, authorities said.

St. Patrick's Day festivities were in full swing Sunday with the usual merriment of bagpipes and beer, but political tensions lingered in the northeastern U.S., where city leaders will be conspicuously absent from parades over gay rights issues.

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Sunday is round two of the city's weekend-long celebration for St. Patrick's Day and the South Side Irish Parade is set to begin at noon.

By the time you read this, you'll probably be two green beers into your morning, the Chicago River is weird shade of neon and the guy across the bar is downing shots of Jamo and trying to convince everyone that Scotch is for sipping and Irish Whiskey is for shots.

Thousands of cheering onlookers clustered along downtown bridges as members of Chicago Journeymen Plumbers Union Local 130 began dumping containers of dye into the river from motorboats Saturday morning.

An example of work by Rest in Pieces, the business of Staci Sterenberg of Chicago, who makes mosaic jewelry and wall art from repurposed glass and ceramic dishware and metal materials.

St. Patrick's Day celebrations are in full force this weekend. The Chicago River will officially turn green at 9:30 a.m., a little earlier than usual.

There's been a lot of concern about that, with St Patrick's Day getting close and Chicagoland still in the deep-freeze.

A 31-year-old woman was in custody Friday in connection with a police chase that began in the south suburbs and ended with the death of a 10-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department, officials said.

Farmers markets have doubled in the United States over the last decade. That same decade has seen the rapid growth of Chicago's Good Food Festival that happens this weekend.

The Chicago Flower & Garden Show, whose roots can be traced back to 1847, returns to Navy Pier, Saturday, March 15 - Sunday, March 23. Its annual Garden Gourmet Series features some of Chicago's most popular chefs preparing recipes with fresh-from-the-garden ingredients.

Help Hospitalized Veterans , the nation's largest provider of free therapeutic arts and craft kits to veterans who receive healthcare will be hosting a special arts & crafts clinic on March 21, 2014 in the Chicago area.

Saint Patrick's Day is on Monday, March 17, which means that there is a full weekend of Irish themed parties and food specials ahead for the entire weekend.