Melissa McCart is the lead editor of the Northeast region with more than 20 years of experience as a reporter, critic, editor, and cookbook author. The dispute tests how far a successful restaurant’s ...

Discover why this legendary area code still signals prestige, power and city pride, and how it compares to other iconic codes like 212 and 310. In the digital age, a phone number is more than just a ...

The violent firebug accused of setting a young woman ablaze Monday on a Chicago train was previously nabbed for an arson attack on a government building just as Gov. J.B. Pritzker was due to speak — ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Nov. 21, according to the Tribune’s archives. The Tribune had one criticism of the church’s interior design: “The decorator deserves whatever ...

A city “scarred and shaped by fire” is inviting more of the same by inspecting over a 12-month period just 17% of the buildings in its database for fire code violations and failing to maintain an ...

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Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 11, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Quazi Hasan of Austin, Texas, takes a ...

The Chicago City Council unanimously approved a $90 million settlement to resolve 176 lawsuits brought by 180 people who were wrongfully convicted and collectively spent nearly 200 years behind bars.

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) mourned the death of a convicted murderer on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list in an X post Friday. "Rest in Power, Rest in Peace, Assata Shakur," the CTU’s post ...

CHICAGO (WGN) – A group of Chicago dentists are experiencing high traffic on their website and social media channels while also receiving backlash for a post made by a California dentist that has now ...

Early Sunday morning, spectators jostled for a glimpse of the Chicago River to witness something that hadn’t happened there in nearly a century. People were swimming in it. In the heart of the Loop ...