Chicago News

Camus wrote that there is only one truly serious philosophical question-and that is suicide.

Are you one of approximately 8,000 industry professionals attending Techweek in its founding city of Chicago next week? This 3-day innovation conference and technology expo is taking place on June 27-29th at the massive and historic, Art Deco Merchandise Mart located on the banks of the Chicago River.

Julie Dahlinger, who portrays Hollywood star Katie Holmes, acts out verbatim dialogue from a Seventeen magazine interview, as her overprotective family from Toledo, Ohio, tells the audience how Holmes got the leading role in the late 90s teen drama Dawson's Creek .

Activists plan to collect toilet paper donations outside an event featuring Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett.

Millennium Park chairwoman Donna LaPietra says the screen will function like a big TV and connect the pavilion with free culture, sports and entertainment from around the world.

Millennium Park's summer film series is back. While there have been a couple movies shown already this year, tonight's screening of the glossy, bombastic musical Chicago -preceded by a Roger Ebert tribute-is the official kick-off event.

For one day , Fat Rice is taking reservations. For the fifth time, extending back to the years when Abraham Conlon and Adrienne Lo ran the underground dining club X-Marx, they're holding a day-long series in conjunction with Perman Wine Selections celebrating the Spanish white wine Txakolina.

Twenty-two environmental activists who staged a sit-in to protest the expansion of the Keystone XL Pipeline that would bring crude oil from Canada to the United States were arrested as part of a planned protest this morning outside the State Department offices in the Loop, police said.

Rapper Keith Cozart, better known as Chief Keef, was arrested blocks from the Skokie Courthouse only minutes after he pleaded guilty to speeding 110 mph on the Edens Expressway last month.

In middle school my favorite author was Daniel Pinkwater and my favorite book was The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death , which he wrote in 1982.

For months, the city of Chicago has endured continuous rampage of senseless gun violence .

Taking first and third place in the Best New Consumable products competition, Dr. Smoothie Brands wows the judges with the new Veggie Smoothie and Match Mint Chip.

Months ago we broke the news that New Zealand-based performance wear brand Icebreaker Touchlab was opening it's tenth North American store in Chicago's Gold Coast.

Well as you may now knowRumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated. So where was I then? Well my sister had triplets up in Chicago.

Six men are dead and at least 41 others were wounded in gun violence across the city since Friday afternoon.

On Sunday, June 16, 2013, Jason Miller won Chicago Park District's 98th Cook County Amateur Golf Tournament .

Yesterday I toured the mansion for sale at 1352 N. LaSalle Blvd. in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood.

A clout-heavy Chicago real estate developer is set to land a long-term deal to provide aircraft storage, fueling and maintenance at Gary's government-owned airport.

A $250,000 bond was set Sunday for a Merrionette Park firefighter accused of sexually abusing a visitor from Hawaii at a party while a fellow firefighter allegedly acted as lookout outside the bedroom door.

Seven people were killed and at least 30 wounded in Chicago gun violence over Father's Day weekend, WMAQ-TV reports.