South Loop News

Yes, I am saving my energy for the mad sprint through the closing weekend events.

Yep, running late here. Let's just paste in and go! And you go catch some local beers and hard to find tappings.

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

Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan to build a 12,000-seat basketball arena near McCormick Place that would double as a home for mid-city sized shows would be built with $125 million in public funds - $55 million in tax-increment financing and $70 million in hotel taxes, sources said Tuesday.

Only have a weekend to spend in Chicago ? Here are some suggestions on how to get the most out of The Second City in 48 hours or less.

Chicago is synonymous with classic architecture, and public art projects like the Picasso and the so-called "Bean" at Millennium Park.

Can you really redeem something created in the urban equivalent of original sin, when even the two parts of its name - 'Congress' and 'Parkway' - form an oxymoron? In 1909, for his Plan of Chicago , Daniel Burnham envisioned Congress Parkway as the city's great civic promenade, a tree-lined boulevard lined with uniform-height Beaux Arts Buildings ... (more)

The Archdiocese has delayed demolition of St. James Church. That calls to mind a historic church that wasn't saved: the old Old St.

In short, an interior site suspected to be the Dauntless faction HQ location for Neil Burger's Chicago-based "Divergent" adaptation was pegged by an observant local fan who'd been scouting out the long-known 2400 Michigan Ave.

Bacon and beer fests are everywhere this Spring and it's a great time to be a Chicagoan.