Chicago’s winter parking ban: Where you can and can’t park
In addition to feeding Chicago parking meters and avoiding tow zones, drivers now have one more sign to watch out for when parking on city streets. The winter overnight parking...
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How to drop off, recycle your Christmas tree in Chicago, suburbs
Chicago's Christmas tree recycling program runs through Jan. 21. More than 200,000 trees have been recycled since the program, which is organized by the Department of Streets and Sanitation and...
How to lift a 70-foot-tall, 13,000-pound star 360 feet up a building on New Year’s Eve
In the second year of the downtown New Year's Eve celebration Chi-Town Rising, the star will be much more of an actual star.Along the river between Michigan Avenue and Columbus...
Dropping on New Year’s Eve: Chi-Town Rising star compared with a ball, a potato, others
Chicago once again will join the ranks of cities like New York, Atlanta and Key West, Fla., as it plans to usher in 2017 by lowering, or in this case...
Wrigley Field: How the ballpark has changed between 1945 and 2016
Game 3 of the World Series between the Cubs and Indians will begin under the lights at 7 p.m. Friday. That in itself is a big difference from the last...
‘Officer down’: The death of Lt. Gliniewicz, one year later
When Fox Lake police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz died by gunfire on Sept. 1, 2015, few people then would have predicted the chain of events that would follow. After a...
Chicago Air and Water Show: What to know if you go
Racing across the lakefront sky for the Chicago Air and Water Show this year are the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, which alternate with the Blue Angels, and an appearance by...
12 incredible flying machines to celebrate Boeing’s 100th birthday
In 100 years of building commercial and military aircraft, Boeing has created some of the most well-known and important machines in the sky. The company was founded in 1916 by...
Week of deadly shootings, protests, rising tensions
A week that began with the celebration of Independence Day quickly turned violent with the deaths of two black men — one in Baton Rouge, La., and the other in...
Derrick Rose’s run in Chicago: A timeline
Chicago native Derrick Rose is leaving his hometown. Rose, the No. 1 pick in the 2008 NBA Draft, Justin Holiday and a 2017 second-round pick have been traded to the...