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Tonya Gunn , 44, was shot and killed in Chicago's Morgan Park on Monday while attending a family gathering, reports ABC7-Chicago.

Prominent Chicago Democrats have had an easy time with the national media for decades -- as easy as shaking a ring of keys to distract an anxious child in church.

Chicago is rapidly becoming the city that believes anything is possible. Why not, right? After all, Chicago did get filmmaker George Lucas to pick the city for his new museum.

I.D. Chicago , which has had a deliciously modern showroom in Lakeview for 14 years, is packing up and heading to 375 West Erie Street .

Alderman Willie Cochran has been trying to get to the roots of the violence battering the south and west sides since long before the latest carnage- 14 people killed and 82 wounded over the three-day weekend, and more in the days since, including a fatal shooting on the Dan Ryan Expressway Wednesday morning.

AAH!, one of the fastest-growing bottled water brands, announces the continuation of its groundbreaking art campaign, WAT-AAH! Taking Back the Streets.

A handful of local rappers decided to celebrate Independence Day by releasing new music: Hurt Everybody dropped their debut self-titled EP , GLC put out By Ism Means Necessary , and King Louie brought the world Tony .

A Chicago father spoke to reporters Wednesday morning, just hours after his daughter, Jasmine Curry, was killed in a drive-by shooting on the Dan Ryan Expressway.

A Chicago father spoke to reporters Wednesday morning, just hours after his daughter, Jasmine Curry, was killed in a drive-by shooting on the Dan Ryan Expressway.

On Thursday, Steven Vance and I got the news that the city was forcing a developer to fix a dangerous bottleneck on Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago's busiest bike street, in Wicker Park.

CHICAGO – Authorities say a woman was shot to death while driving on the Dan Ryan Expressway on Chicago's South Side.

Matrix and Cloud Atlas creators the Wachowski siblings are behind Netflix's new sci-fi drama Sense8, and have arrived in Chicago to begin shooting.

Nothing brings everyone in the greater Chicago area together like a high concentration of expensive food.

Chicago is home to some of the best architecture known to man, and now it wants the world to know.

This week's blog post is by WDP co-host Matt Rocco, who lives in the Edgewater Glen neighborhood of Chicago with Professor Foster , and their daughter Viva, who only eats free-range broccoli.

An Evergreen Park man has been charged with first degree murder after police said he fatally shot another man in the early morning hours of July 5. The charges were announced Monday evening against Richard L. Magnan, 35, of the 2600 block of West 90th Place, in Evergreen Park.

For the third year in a row, The Taste will run for five days instead of 10 and will have different hours.

It's hard to say whether the dA©cor or the food is more enticing at A Baker's Tale, situated along a bustling stretch of restaurants and cafes on Division Street in Wicker Park, because both are equally spectacular.

Chicago's minimum wage would rise to $13 an hour from $8.25 by 2018 under a proposal announced on Tuesday by a panel that Mayor Rahm Emanuel appointed to chart a path for raising the wage floor in the nation's third largest city.

Change has come to Logan Square at a decent clip in recent years. Now a local group is promoting a plan that could bring even bigger alterations to the neighborhood's landscape.