HIGHLAND PARK — The famous glass and steel home that served as the set for Cameron Frye's house in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" is undergoing a historic renovation — and it's not because a bright red ...

DUNNING — Wrecking crews this week pronounced the end of Ralph Frese's Chicagoland Canoe Base, 4019 N. Narragansett Ave., which spent decades as an iconic craft workshop known as the city's last ...

CHICAGO — Hard to believe, but there was a time when pizza in Chicago was a novelty, not a given, when restaurants specializing in it got more buzz than a Brendan Sodikoff spot and squirrels could ...

WRIGLEYVILLE — As the Cubs prepare for the start of this year's playoffs, fans should prepare for the end of one of Wrigley Field's oddest quirks. This is the last year for the outdoor bullpens along ...

HARLEM — The chief suspect in the murder of rapper Big L in 1999 was gunned down in Harlem Thursday night, sources said. Gerard Woodley, 46, who is suspected in four other homicides, was in front of ...

EDGEWATER — In August 1977, Chicago Police detectives Joseph Stachula and Lee Epplen were six months deep into a frustratingly fruitless investigation to uncover the murderer of Teresita Basa, a ...

CITY HALL — Of the 804 new Chicago Police officers hired in 2017, 41 percent are white, according to data provided to aldermen Thursday. Some 35 percent are Hispanic, 17 percent are black and 7 ...

ANDERSONVILLE — The neighborhood that once was a hub for Chicago's lesbian community — known to many as "Girlstown" — is now home to more married gay men than hitched gay women, data shows. For ...

LAKEVIEW — For some, going to church is like coming home. And for others, that's true in an even more literal sense. But perhaps no rebirth lends as much scope to the imagination as houses of worship ...

Mayor Daley reportedly has a girlfriend. Crain’s Shia Kapos writes that the former mayor has been dating Rush Medical Center Dr. Adele Joy Cobbs, who specializes in emergency medicine. Sources who ...

TRIBECA — Eight people were killed and nearly a dozen injured when a terrorist driving a rental truck struck multiple people during a 20-block rampage along a bike path on West Street Tuesday ...

WEST RIDGE — Before becoming one of the city's most prolific resting places, Rosehill Cemetery was a rolling plat of hilly land called "Roe's Hill" by locals. In true Chicago form, nearby resident ...