1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (356+ words) “It’s about celebrating youth across Chicagoland that are doing phenomenal things in the community,” Walker-West said. “We have categories celebrating kids for dancing, singing, being scholars, athletes, humanitarians. There’s award events for adults, but we don’t have anything for kids....

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (29+ words) The marquee of the Chicago Theatre is a dazzling icon of the city that has hosted film premieres, film festivals, fashion shows, vaudeville entertainment, concerts, musicals and even memorials....

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (152+ words) Stevie Wonder has announced a “Songs In The Key of Life: 50th Anniversary” world tour on Tuesday, including a concert at the United Center. Stevie Wonder announced a “Songs in the Key of Life: 50th Anniversary” world tour on Tuesday, including a…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (947+ words) Labor Day marks the unofficial yet traditional launch of the fall general election campaign, and for the major candidates it also means a shift in focus from downstate fairs, tours and rallies to the vote-rich Chicago area, where statewide races…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (265+ words) More than 28,000 students in Chicago Public Schools will continue to have free home internet access through an extension of a pandemic-era city program. Chicago Connected, launched in 2020, provides free broadband or hotspot services to low-income families. Roughly 60,000 CPS students have…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (480+ words) How did the Chicago History Museum — an institution focused on the history of our city and the region — end up with an impressive array of clothing worn by our earliest presidents, including some who never stepped foot in Illinois? Unfortunately,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (155+ words) “Dirty Dancing” has a new tour arriving in Chicago and its distinguished director, Lonny Price, says it is a whole new treatment of how Baby gets out of her corner. The show has toured before, but in the past it…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (457+ words) Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. 28, according to the Tribune’s archives. Front page flashback: Aug. 29, 1955 1955: Eight days after 14-year-old Emmett Till took the City of New Orleans train from Chicago to stay with…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (337+ words) Robert Falls is returning to directing in the Chicago theater, this time not at the Goodman, his artistic home for decades, but at Redtwist Theatre, a tiny venue located at 1044 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. with fewer than 50 seats. Casting has not…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (452+ words) Remember all the way back in 2023, during the height of the migrant influx, when Tribune reporting uncovered that a city contractor running operations at migrant shelters was submitting some eye-popping bills? We had no evidence of fraud. What we did…...