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It's famous for being a pizza city, a hot dog city and an Italian beef city. But these days, with local craft breweries such as Revolution, Atlas and 5 Rabbit gaining steam and Goose Island turning 25, Chicago is gaining another reputation to help wash down its longstanding ones.

Broadway In Chicago just announced ALTON BROWN LIVE! THE EDIBLE INEVITABLE TOUR coming to Chicago for one night only on February 8, 2014 at the Oriental Theatre .

Ed. Paul Durica and Bill Savage Reading Sat 6/1, 1 PM Newberry Library 60 W. Walton newberry.org free "Chicago has been called, in its time, the wickedest city in the world, and somehow or other the impression has gone abroad that it is really a very wicked place indeed." And yet: "It is possible for a perfectly moral person, one used to all the ... (more)

On an unseasonably warm Friday evening in May, minutes before facing the biggest hometown crowd of his young career, Chance the Rapper races a skateboard around the barren downtown-Chicago office space that's temporarily doubling as his dressing room.

Chicago looks good from every angle, whether in the air from one of its towering skyscrapers or from down below via a boat ride along the river.

Want to get in beach-body shape for summer? Replace your mattress if it's seen better days.

Gasoline prices are up most everywhere, but for a painful change in Kansas, they're up by a greater amount at fueling stations in the nation's middle.

St. Louis County is loaning Metro $400 million to pay off debt, according to a KMOX story cited by the St.

Chevrolet unveils the 2014 Cruze Clean Turbo Diesel Thursday, February 7, 2013 at the Chicago Auto Show in Chicago, Illinois.

Chicago businesswoman and current Commerce secretary nominee Penny Pritzker faced few tough questions at her Senate hearing Thursday.

On stretches of First Avenue in New York City, one general traffic lane was converted to a bus lane and another was converted to a protected bike lane without affecting traffic volumes or speeds.

Recently, we all heard and read about the garment factory collapse in Bangladesh.

The Chicago Blues Festival returns and is anticipated to welcome more than 500,000 fans.

Chicago gained nearly 10,000 people from July 2011 to July 2012, but was the slowest-growing major city in the country according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Thursday.

Expect to see many visitors in Western New York over the holiday weekend. Buffalo - Niagara Falls is on Priceline.com's list of top Memorial Day travel destinations, ranking 24th out of 50 destinations.

The award-winning Ralph Johnson-designed condominium tower at 235 Van Buren in Chicago's Loop is transit-oriented development at its best.

Roosevelt University graduate student Natalie Krusemeier has decided that earning her Ph.D. in English can wait.

This Friday is projected to be the busiest day of the Memorial Day weekend at O'Hare International Airport, with some 269,000 passengers expected, officials said Wednesday.

In this Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011, file photo, a passenger walks through an American Airlines baggage claim area at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago.

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