Advocates say huge warehouses and constant truck traffic are hurting Black and Brown communities. And the “physician magician” is here with a new trick up his sleeve.

A federal judge approved a $12.25 million settlement for Little Village residents over the botched demolition of the Crawford Coal Plant on April 11, 2020. After the settlement is divided evenly, each plaintiff will receive about $317, according to the plaintiffs’ attorney, Scott Rauscher of Loevy & Loevy. Juan...

DETROIT (AP) — Caleb Williams is heading to the Windy City, aiming to become the franchise quarterback Chicago has sought for decades. The Bears selected Williams with the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL draft on Thursday night after deciding weeks ago to bank on the 2022 Heisman Trophy winner from USC.

Your mission, Chicagoans, should you choose to accept it, is to get outside this weekend and notice the nature all around us. It’s time again for the annual City Nature Challenge, a friendly global competition designed to showcase the biodiversity in urban yards, parks and nature preserves. The challenge...

Illinois officials plan to increase funding to fight homelessness and the racial disparities that cause it statewide after a new report found Black Illinoisans are eight times more likely to be unhoused than White residents. Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday said Illinois will earmark $250 million in the FY25 budget...

What started as a New York Times article published in the summer of 2021, has since turned into a book capturing the narratives of five pioneering Black ballerinas. Titled “The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History,” the book tells the stories of a group of Black ballerinas at the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Featured are founding members Lydia Abarca Mitchell, Gayle McKinney-Griffith, Sheila Rohan and first-generation dancers Karlya Shelton-Benjamin and Marcia Sells.

Environmental advocates in the Chicago area and northwest Indiana applauded a tough new slate of Environmental Protection Agency rules for coal-fired power plants — rules that cover local generating stations that are already offline or slated to be phased out. The EPA came out with four new regulations Thursday,...

“If it gets around Chicago that I went to a prayer meeting, no decent person will talk to me!”. Sin and salvation form an odd power couple in Frank Loesser’s “Guys and Dolls,” a true classic of American musical theater that’s tuneful and fresh nearly 75 years after it premiered.

Failing to tackle a looming $730 million budget hole for CTA, Metra and Pace could have “potentially debilitating” effects on disinvested Chicago area communities that rely on transit – but boosting funding for public transportation without drastic governance reform would be a major failure, a new report says.

(CNN) — The fertility rate in the United States has been trending down for decades, and a new report shows that another drop in births in 2023 brought the rate down to the lowest it’s been in more than century. There were about 3.6 million babies born in...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein ’s 2020 rape conviction, reversing a landmark ruling of the #MeToo era in determining the trial judge improperly allowed women to testify about allegations against the ex-movie mogul that weren’t part of the case.

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Cubs reliever Luke Little said he had to change his glove before he entered Wednesday night’s 4-3 victory over the Houston Astros because of an American flag patch. Manager Craig Counsell went to insert Little with one out in the seventh inning. But as...

Piping plover watch is officially on at Montrose Beach with the arrival of Imani, which was reported early Thursday. "He is looking great," said an ecstatic Tamima Itani, coordinator of the brigade of volunteer plover monitors at Montrose. Imani was one of two surviving chicks born in 2021 to Chicago’s...

In a digital exclusive video from his latest special, Chicago Mysteries, Geoffrey Baer took a very tentative sip of Malört, the infamous Swedish wormwood liqueur that Chicagoans love to hate (or love). We asked the readers of our Deep Dish food newsletter and our followers on social media how they would describe the bitter beverage. Personally, we said “grapefruits soaked in gasoline” and “lighter fluid.” But our readers' responses made us laugh, so we decided to compile them for posterity – an important public service, we believe. Bug spray metaphors abound.

Campus protests are continuing to grow across the U.S. Hundreds of demonstrators have been arrested over the past several days at multiple schools. The protests have also reached Vanderbilt University where dozens of students have faced suspension, expulsion and even arrest for their participation. Amna Nawaz discussed Vanderbilt's approach with Chancellor Daniel Diermeier.

Some Little Village residents will receive part of a $12.25 million settlement. But many still worry about the long-term health impacts.

Flooding is the state’s most threatening natural disaster and touches every corner in Illinois, but communities of color and poorer areas often face the greatest risk — particularly in the city of Chicago and greater Cook County. Sewer and stormwater infrastructure can often no longer handle the onslaught of water that comes from these heavy rainfalls, experts told Illinois Answers.

Plans for a new Bears stadium on the lakefront. What’s behind changes at Rainbow PUSH. And we look back at the very first “Chicago Tonight” — which aired 40 years ago tonight!

The Rainbow PUSH Coalition once again finds itself searching for new leadership. This comes as the Rev. Frederick Haynes III announced he would step down as the organization’s president and CEO after just months on the job. It has raised questions about the future of the historic civil rights...