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Obama’s Chicago visits: Timeline of 28 trips (9 focused on policy goals)

May 15, 2019 at 3:03 p.m.

President Barack Obama will give his farewell address Jan. 10 at McCormick Place. Since the president's inauguration in 2009, he has made it back home to Chicago 28 times. The...

A large star hangs on the Hyatt Regency Chicago for the Chi-Town Rising New Year's Eve event on Dec. 31, 2015.

How to lift a 70-foot-tall, 13,000-pound star 360 feet up a building on New Year’s Eve

June 8, 2018 at 1:41 p.m.

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...

Bicyclists pedal down Dearborn Street in Chicago's Loop on Dec. 4, 2016, as slushy snow falls on the city for the first time this season.

Winter weather: How much snow? And how cold will it get?

May 22, 2019 at 10:50 p.m.

Expect temperatures to remain in the single-digits during the day Thursday followed by snow Friday.The National Weather Service has issued a wind chill advisory for Wednesday night through Thursday morning.The...

Thanksgiving prices at Englewood Whole Foods

June 8, 2018 at 11:25 p.m.

When Whole Foods opened its Englewood location on West 63rd Street in late September, the natural and organic food retailer identified about 30 staple items that would be sold at...

O’Hare holiday travel tips: 7 experts map out their secrets

June 1, 2019 at 6:26 a.m.

While driving remains the most popular form of transportation Thanksgiving travelers take, AAA expects just under 4 million people to fly to their holiday destinations. We asked travel experts from...

Illinois, a blue island in a red sea: Data analysis

June 9, 2018 at 3:40 a.m.

On all borders, blue Illinois is surrounded by red — all five adjacent states were carried by Donald Trump, not an insignificant trend given how the presidential race unfolded on...

Trump election fallout: Racial tension and incidents, raucous protests

August 21, 2019 at 8:54 p.m.

The mounting tension of a racially fraught presidential race spilled out across the country in the days following the election of Republican Donald Trump with a spate of violent protests...

Road to the World Series: Cubs’ season visualized

May 15, 2019 at 11:58 p.m.

The epic 10-inning Game 7 that ended the Cubs 108-year World Series drought was a fitting end to the Cubs historic 2016 season. The year was marked with soaring successes...

World Series Game 7s: What do the numbers show

May 15, 2019 at 11:57 p.m.

The story of the 36 World Series Game 7s includes a lot of baseball greats: Sandy Koufax, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth and Madison Bumgarner. The Cubs famously lost Game 7...

Wrigley Field: How the ballpark has changed between 1945 and 2016

May 15, 2019 at 11:51 p.m.

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...

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