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Jedlicka Performing Arts Center concludes its 2013-14 season with the new Broadway musical BIG FISH with music and lyrics by Tony Award nominee Andrew Lippa , book by esteemed screenwriter John August , directed by Artistic Director Dante J. Orfei , music direction by John Warren and choreography by Dina DiCostanzo .

Ron Onesti and Jim Peterik of The Ides of March and Survivor on WGN-FM, "Backstage with Ron Onesti" Jul. 25, 2014.

Demarko Johnson-Molette and Devontay Chambers have been charged in connection to the July 14 armed robbery in the 200 block of Clinton Avenue.

Dr. Richard Park, Chief Executive Officer at CityMD, explains the expansion of urgent care clinics and the changing nature of health care in the United States.

Richard Linklater is not only one of this country's most versatile working film directors, he's also an accomplished film exhibitor.

Leaping, twirling and stomping into its 25th anniversary season, River North Dance Chicago, the subject of three Emmy Award-winning WTTW-TV Chicago specials, attracted 120 guests to the Chop Shop & 1st Ward in Chicago on July 10. Snippets of the dancers' energetic repertoires were projected onto the walls of the venue while attendees mingled ... (more)

Jose Abreu slams his 27th homer on July 4 at U.S. Cellular Field against the Mariners.

Join others to say, "Na zdrowie!" this Sunday July 27th, 6pm, in celebration for the book release of Avondale and Chicago's Polish Village at the Podlasie Club, 2918 N. Central Park.

Global warming is not the reason why Chicago's 1800s-era sewer system occasionally floods people's basements, despite Washington Post propaganda to the contrary.

Here's another one from the "don't do the crime if you can't do the time" files and a reminder that posting proof of your stupidity on social media can come back to bite you in the ass.

In a small garden in Chicago's South Side Washington Park neighborhood - blocks from a site proposed for the Obama presidential library - 18-year-old A.J. Jones has found solace tending organic leeks, asparagus and dinosaur kale.

There isn't a city in the U.S. that's been a better laboratory for architectural inventiveness than Chicago.

Bike mechanics at Heritage Bicycles used fast Facebook sleuthing to help reunite a stolen bike with its owner Monday evening, Chicago police officials said.

Beyonce and Jay-Z are on the Chicago leg of the On The Run tour, scheduled for Thursday night at Soldier Field.

The grieving father of a Chicago police officer killed in a traffic accident on his way to work on the Dan Ryan Expressway sacrificed sleep Tuesday night so he could scribble down the things he wanted people to know about his son.

Harold Shirley never had seen a bed bug before moving to the Milshire Hotel three years ago.

The family of an Elk Grove Village man who drowned in the Chicago River earlier this year, has filed a wrongful-death suit against the owners of a Chicago gentleman's club the man visited before he died.

Common wants you to know his brand-new Nobody's Smiling is all about Chicago. Specifically it's about the violence that casts a shadow over the city, but it's also about Chicago's hip-hop scene and Common's relationship with the entire town.

A big report in the Washington Post on Wednesday laid out how Chicago's aging infrastructure is intersecting with climate change's tendency to drive heavier bursts of precipitation in some parts of the country, with some exceedingly unpleasant results.

Chicago police were questioning a suspect today in the fatal shooting of 11-year-old Shamiya Adams, who was struck by a stray bullet Friday night during a sleepover inside a West Side apartment, according to law enforcement sources.