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Highland Park beach set to reopen after $12M restoration

August 18, 2019 at 7:38 p.m.

Come June 6, Highland Park's freshly renovated Rosewood Beach will open as the newest public beach on the North Shore. That's both thrilling and nerve-wracking for Liza McElroy, the Park...

A close-up view of a monitor shows the electronic video game Pac-Man in 1983.

Pac-Man’s 35th birthday celebrated at Schaumburg shrine to video game

May 22, 2019 at 8:02 p.m.

At his age, Pac-Man probably should be celebrating his birthday at home with Mrs. Pac-Man, a bottle of wine and maybe a Netflix movie before turning in. Instead, the 35-year-old...

Beginning Thursday, according to airport officials, both Chicago airports will see an increased number of travelers over last year's Memorial Day weekend.

Memorial Day travel means busy airports, live music

August 23, 2019 at 12:26 p.m.

Advice to Memorial Day travelers: If you're the type who requires a pre-flight bloody mary in the airport bar — and no judgment here — be sure to give yourself...

Man charged in 2013 Logan Square slaying, robbery attempt

May 22, 2019 at 7:59 p.m.

Cayetano Sandoval had been returning home to his wife on Dec. 12, 2013, after a night shift at the Avondale bakery where he worked for 20 years, prosecutors said Saturday....

Man charged with shooting video up skirt of teen girl on CTA Red Line

May 22, 2019 at 7:59 p.m.

A Chicago man is charged with the unauthorized video recording of a minor after prosecutors say he followed a 16-year-old girl up the stairs at the Harrison CTA station and...

Northwestern student Brannon Cho practices his cello, made in 1668, on Thursday, May 14, 2015, in a music room on the Evanston campus.

Northwestern cellist to compete in elite Tchaikovsky Competition in Russia

June 15, 2018 at 5:59 p.m.

A Northwestern University student and his half-million-dollar cello are headed to Russia next month to compete in the International Tchaikovsky Competition, an elite contest that can launch careers. Brannon Cho,...

Trees removed to make way for Maggie Daley Park on Dec. 11, 2014, are stripped of bark and turned upside down. They are being repurposed as a design feature in the Enchanted Forest.

Maggie Daley Park climbing wall opens

May 22, 2019 at 7:57 p.m.

Estelle Park had been looking forward to this day and finally it had come. Immediately after school Tuesday, the 12-year-old Palatine girl and her parents headed to the Malkin-Sacks Rock...

Report: Chicago is sixth ‘sneeziest and wheeziest’ in U.S.

May 22, 2019 at 7:58 p.m.

Chicago ranked as the sixth "sneeziest and wheeziest" city in the United States in a new report on how climate change and carbon emissions are affecting allergies and asthma. The...

Michelle Obama’s grandfather, known as Southside, was a ‘magnet’

May 22, 2019 at 7:57 p.m.

At the very end of the video announcement that the Obama presidential library was coming to Chicago's South Side, first lady Michelle Obama gave a nod to a family patriarch...

Prosecutors: Parolee used fists, hammer to hold woman in car overnight

May 22, 2019 at 7:56 p.m.

A Chicago man is charged with aggravated kidnapping and domestic battery after using his fists and the threat of a hammer to keep a woman he was dating in his...

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