Five people were shot overnight during a gathering at Ellis Park in the Oakland neighborhood on the city's South Side, at least the third incident so far in which multiple people were shot during what ...

CHICAGO — It is visible from almost anywhere on Chicago’s South Side, a 225-foot-tall chunky obelisk that some have nicknamed “the Obamalisk.” The structure is the centerpiece of what will be by far ...

CHICAGO - Two men were found dead lying on the street on the city’s South Side early Sunday morning. Officers responded to ...

Work has begun on the state’s new multibillion-dollar quantum computing campus on Chicago’s South Side. The lakefront site for the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park was for decades U.S. Steel ...

CHICAGO — A man is dead following an overnight crash near a South Side beach. According to Chicago police, the crash unfolded just before midnight in the 6300 block of South Coast Guard Drive, near ...

CHICAGO — The 28th annual Life Time Chicago Half Marathon and 5K is underway Sunday morning along the lakefront on Chicago’s South Side. The 13.1-mile half marathon began at 7 a.m. in Jackson Park and ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- In years to come, the well-used beaches and playing fields of Calumet Park on Chicago's Southwest Side will get a new attraction. Some call the new park space a victory as a dump site ...

A look inside Barack Obama’s “living, breathing cultural and gathering space” (with an N.B.A.-size basketball court). Not everyone is cheering. The granite-clad museum at the Obama Presidential Center ...