Fifty degree-days in December, bike riding in winter and bone-chilling temperatures brought in with the new year. Some might write this off as the usual unpredictable weather that often greets Chicago’s...

CHICAGO (AP) — Several Chicago-area universities are joining forces to help persuade President Barack Obama to build his library at the University of Chicago and not in New York, Honolulu or across...

Chicago is a getting a raise. The city council on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly in favor of Mayor Emanuel’s plan to raise the city’s minimum wage to $13 an hour by 2019. The move comes after...

While cold weather and heavy meals might drive you indoors for a quiet nap, December's concert calendar could convince you otherwise. Here's just a sample of some of the top shows this month in Chicago. Dec....

Anyone who regularly passes by Clark Street and Belden Avenue in Lincoln Park knows Jackie Robinson, or would at least recognize him.  He is one of thousands in Chicago who after a combination of bad...

The recent 30-degree weather and eye-watering wind didn’t keep Shake Shack customers from their first taste of the world-renowned burgers and fries on Nov. 4, at the first of two Chicago locations...

Along with hot chocolate and snowball fights, there are few things more quintessentially wintertime than ice skating. Luckily, Chicago is not short on places to hit the ice and channel your inner Michelle...

[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or a 22-year-old DePaul senior, coming home from the gym to her Lincoln Park apartment on a late afternoon in September, the first sign of trouble was the furniture, normally neatly...

For Chicago college students like Venice Adams, raising the minimum wage in Illinois is the only way to continue pursuing a college degree. Adams, a senior at Columbia College Chicago, works two minimum-wage...

Students have been traveling near and far to find the sparsest of grocery stores, but their struggles are all about to end when Whole Foods opens up on campus in February 2015. This will be the second...