The appearance is timed with the “Star Trek” actor’s forthcoming album on Cleopatra Records that is reported to include ...

Hazardous wildfire smoke from Canada prompted an air quality alert for most of the Chicago area More than 800 Canadian ...

In our monthly public forum, WBEZ listeners get to ask their questions to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. According to a ...

With attorney Victor Henderson loaning $500,000 to his own campaign, the race to lead the city’s first fully elected school ...

“There’s the Langston Hughes era where Black folks are telling America, ‘Hey, we’re here. We’re American.’ We have the Mama Nikki Giovanni era where Black folks are telling Black people, ‘We’re ...

Seven years after the botched police raid that left Anjanette Young handcuffed and traumatized in her home, she is now being selected to join the oversight board for Chicago’s police department. If ...

On Monday, the Northwestern Prison Education Program graduated its second class of 22 students — its first ceremony at Sheridan Correctional Center — as graduates received their bachelor’s degrees ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson was flanked by political allies and organizers who cheered as he inked an executive order earlier this year directing Chicago police to investigate federal immigration agents and ...

Chicago Public Schools officials announced Wednesday that the cash-strapped district would furlough staff for five days that students are not supposed to be in attendance, such as during teacher ...

The Chicago Board of Election Commissioners has removed five candidates in the upcoming race for Chicago’s first fully elected school board, including two sitting board members. On Tuesday the board ...

Illinois has confirmed 240 cases of the diarrhea-causing illness cyclosporiasis, the state’s public health department confirmed Wednesday. Cyclosporiasis is not considered a deadly disease and is more ...