How Chicago’s iconic buildings light up for the Cubs
It's no surprise that in the birthplace of the skyscraper, some of those tall buildings are helping cheer on the Cubs. Downtown buildings have changed lighting designs for decades to...
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World Series weather: What Cleveland TV stations are saying about tonight’s game
The World Series was moved an hour earlier to try and avoid what could be a rainy night in Cleveland. The game starts at 6:08 p.m. Chicago time.The drizzly morning...
Kyle Schwarber: Where the Schwarbombs landed
Kyle Schwarber's rookie season hit an apex, quite literally, when his arching home run landed atop the right field video board, helping the Cubs to eliminate the Cardinals in the...
Marathon speed analysis: How elite runners compare with normal folks
Last year the men's winner of the Bank of America Chicago Marathon crossed the finish line in 2 hours, 9 minutes. And 14 minutes later the women's winner finished. For...
Chicago Marathon 2016: Everything you need to know if you run or watch
On Oct. 9, for 26.2 miles through 29 neighborhoods, about 40,000 participants and about 1.7 million spectators will descend on the city for the Bank of America Chicago Marathon. Officials...
Search for your school: Revised 2017 CPS budgets
About 300 public schools in Chicago will lose a total of $45 million in funding because enrollment this fall fell below projections. Under student-based budgeting, money is set aside for...
Who to see at Lolla? We asked celebs, bloggers, record store buyers and high schoolers
There are more than 170 bands to choose from, four chock-full days of rock, rap and electronic music on eight stages in Grant Park: Who would you see at Lollapalooza?The...
Looking back at Lolla: Greg Kot reviews 25 years
On its 25th anniversary, Lollapalooza is a vastly different festival from the one that began as a one-and-done farewell carnival in 1991. Here's a look back at how one of...
See which CPS schools got budget cuts (searchable database)
Chicago Public Schools' principals received budgets Wednesday that they will use to prepare spending plans for their schools. The numbers show schools will have to make it through a full...
See which CPS schools got budget cuts (searchable database)
Chicago Public Schools released budgets last week for individual schools and two thirds are seeing funding decreases. CPS reduced its student-based funding amount by about 5 percent last February and...