Dave Wischnowsky

Chicago's North Mayfair Bungalow Historic District officially became historic in the eyes of the U.S. government this month, and residents in the area may now benefit financially from the designation....

Loop pedestrians learned a lesson in downtown etiquette on Thursday: Don't leave your unwanted bags sitting on Michigan Avenue. A discarded shoulder bag managed to bottle up traffic and draw...

A South Side bank holdup. A car crash on Cottage Grove Avenue, with critical injuries. The stories kept coming into the New City News office Saturday night, and night editor...

After 4 1/2 hours of "pretty intense" last-minute Christmas shopping in Water Tower Place, Nicolas Sesso, 29, took a break Saturday afternoon on a bench before hailing a cab back...

As part of it's annual Christmas Concert Series, the Chicago Cathedral District has scheduled three youth choral performances at the northwest corner of Michigan Avenue and Superior Street. Each hourlong...

Inspectors for the Dumpster Task Force closed Minari Oriental Restaurant at 3311 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. on Tuesday after discovering more than 300 mouse droppings, according to a report from...

DonorsChoose.org, recently recognized by Amazon.com as the Internet's most innovate non-profit organization, celebrated its first year in Chicago at a birthday party thrown by pupils and staff at the Cooper...

Detectives investigating a series of sexual attacks on women in their homes have linked a 21-year-old South Side man to three of the cases and are pursuing DNA evidence in...

A missing Chicago woman who has dementia was found safe in Evanston late Sunday, according to her sister. "My uncle just told me that my sister wasn't feeling good and...

The last time the White Sox went to the World Series, Gaspare "Gappy" Ciaravino was 17. Sunday night, Ciaravino, now a gray-haired grandfather, felt like a teenager again. Erasing 46...