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Map showing the median rent price in each Chicago ZIP code as of September 2023.

Chicago rent prices are on the rise. Here’s a look at the median costs throughout the city.

February 7, 2024 at 1:42 p.m.

Among major cities, Chicago has one of the priciest and most competitive rental markets in the country, with the median price of a residential rental sitting at just under $1,850...

Claudia Marchan wears Dia de los Muertos face paint while celebrating on Oct. 31, 2021, during Haunted Paseo Boricua on Division Street in Humboldt Park on Halloween.

Affordable, kid-friendly Halloween events and activities in Chicago

February 9, 2024 at 12:32 p.m.

Looking for some spooky events for the kiddos? Well, we've got you covered, with 180 kid-friendly Halloween-themed activities going on across the city through Oct. 31. With everything from haunted...

The sun sets over Lake Michigan silhouetting Chicago's skyline Sept. 1, 2023.

10 most expensive ZIP codes in the Chicago area

February 7, 2024 at 2:02 p.m.

As of September 2023, the average value of a single-family home in the Chicago area was just over $370,000 — about $20,000 above the U.S. average. But in parts of...

Business owner Joe Chahayed holds a check outside Joe's Service Center in Altadena, northeast of Los Angeles, Nov. 8, 2022. California lottery officials present a CA Lottery's retailer selling bonus check for "One Million U.S. dollars," to Joe's Service Center for selling the record $2.04 billion Powerball winning ticket.

Here are the 10 biggest lottery prizes in US history

March 12, 2024 at 11:54 a.m.

One lucky lottery player in California hit it big, winning the massive $1.76 billion Powerball jackpot Wednesday night. The winner, who has yet to be identified, broke a monthslong streak...

En el sentido de las agujas del reloj desde arriba a la izquierda: la Iglesia Bautista Antioch en Venecia, el mejor puerto deportivo de Chicago, la librería Second Reading en Alton y la Casa Gillett en Jacksonville son sitios del ferrocarril subterráneo en Illinois. Las fotografías se realizaron utilizando un filtro tipográfico de iPhone. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Mapa: Lugares históricos del Ferrocarril Subterráneo de Illinois, además de lo que debe saber antes de ir

April 15, 2024 at 3:44 p.m.

Si prestaste atención en clase de historia, recordarás que el Ferrocarril Subterráneo no era un ferrocarril en absoluto. Era más bien una red fluida de lugares donde los buscadores de...

Clockwise from top left: The Antioch Baptist Church in Venice, Chicago's Finest Marina in Chicago, the Second Reading Book Shop in Alton and The Gillett House in Jacksonville are all Underground Railroad sites in Illinois. Photographs were made using an iPhone tintype filter.

Map: Illinois Underground Railroad historical sites, plus what to know before you go

October 20, 2025 at 12:58 p.m.

Many traces of the Underground Railroad still remain in Illinois. Here’s a map of known sites across the state and what visitors can expect.

The future Obama Presidential Center is under construction in the 6000 block of South Stony Island Avenue on Aug. 10, 2023, in Chicago.

Search contributions to the Obama Foundation

February 14, 2024 at 6:03 p.m.

Since 2017, the Obama Foundation has raised just over $1.1 billion in contributions from more than 160,000 donors. The organization has received financial support from Chicago-area companies like United Airlines,...

Cashier Rosemary Probst sells tickets for the Mega Millions lottery at the Save 'N Time convenience store in Harahan, Louisiana, on July 26, 2023. The Mega Millions jackpot is over $1.2 billion ahead of Friday's drawing.

Here are the top lottery prizes in US history ahead of the $1.25B Mega Millions jackpot drawing Friday

March 12, 2024 at 12:00 p.m.

Lottery players will have another shot at the massive Mega Millions jackpot Friday night and a chance to break a stretch of more than three months without a big winner....

These maps show where wildfire smoke is making the air quality hazardous to people's health.

Here’s where active wildfires are burning in the US

January 9, 2025 at 2:30 p.m.

Browse the map to see where active wildfires are burning in the United States.

Map showing locations of mass shootings in Illinois since the Highland Park Fourth of July parade shooting a year ago.

A year after Highland Park, mass shootings remain a persistent issue in Illinois

February 7, 2024 at 5:28 p.m.

One year ago, as families, friends, neighbors and revelers celebrated Independence Day in a relatively quiet suburb of Chicago, shots were fired from above. Within seconds, the scene in Highland...

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