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Months of argument and anguish over Mayor Rahm Emanuel's push for sweeping school closings came to a climax Wednesday as his hand-picked Board of Education voted to shut 49 elementary schools and transfer thousands of children to new classroom settings.

This Memorial Day weekend, two separate family-friendly events upend the conventional wisdom about some of history's most fearsome and fascinating creatures.

Little Joe's in suburban Countryside serves its Italian beef and hot dogs topped with singular giardiniera, one packed with shaved, pickled celery.

"For the past few years Mavado has been in the same predicament that's afflicted so many other dancehall superstars: he's practically a demigod in Jamaica, but barely anyone in the U.S. knows who he is," writes Miles Raymer in Soundboard .

This week I toured the mansion for sale at 4801 S Ellis Ave in Chicago's Hyde Park - Kenwood Historic District .

Construction is underway on 216 new apartments on the northwest corner of Madison and Racine in the West Loop .

This firkin is always unique, and can only be enjoyed in the tap room here on Lincoln Avenue.

Sunday's morning church session: How the Spirit speaks to you. The spirit speaks to you all the time through your thoughts and feelings.

The south end of the Red Line is now officially closed for rebuilding. The project is supposed to take five months.

And I'm only talking about the specials here. It might take another century and a half to detail full menus.

In the aftermath of the devastating tornados that struck Oklahoma this week, Chicagoans cast a watchful eye at the sky this morning.

Avondale's LeaderBar Drafthouse & Eatery celebrates National Burger Day, Tuesday, May 28, by offering $1 Leader Burgers with the purchase of any craft beer.

As it stands now, Chicago's Navy Pier is a cluttered, over-commercialized tourist trap that juts out into Lake Michigan.

The suspect is described as a 20- to 30-year-old Asian man with a medium build and short black hair, police said.

Wilmette Police have charged a Chicago woman in connection with a May 15 hit-and-run case in which she is alleged to have driven away from a traffic confrontation with another woman hanging on to her car.

After weeks of protests, it appeared on the eve of a school board vote as though at least one school eyed for closure would be spared.

I'm sitting in a dimly lit recording booth, about the size of an elevator, at a small table opposite my friend Brenna.

Redmoon announced this week that Artplace America has awarded the spectacle troupe a $250,000 grant to help fund the first Great Chicago Fire Festival, to be held on the Chicago River in October 2014.

That Jann Wenner's 22-year-old son and recent Brown University graduate Gus Wenner is taking the reins of Rollingstone.com ? - Leor Galil That a little-known mathematician has made a breakthrough on Twin Prime Conjecture? - Steve Bogira That there are big bucks to be made off female anxiety, whether about breast cancer or fertility ? - Kate Schmidt ... (more)

Deep-dish will never go extinct. You gotta feed the tourists! For the rest of Chicago's pizza-eating public, plenty of new spots are shaking up the scene.