Travel mag: Hancock has one of nation’s best views
A travel website lists the view from atop the John Hancock Center as one of the best in America, alongside a swath of beachside and mountain panoramas. Take that, Grand...
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Bitcoin? There’s an ATM for that
An ATM that dispenses bitcoin, the burgeoning digital currency, is up and running at a North Side café. Jorge Flores believes the machine in his Cassava restaurant in Lake View...
Dueling protests over Gaza tie up Chicago traffic
Supporters of Israel and backers of Palestinians each staged demonstrations downtown Tuesday afternoon over the conflict in Gaza thousands of miles away. A crowd of pro-Israel demonstrators, many toting the...
22 shot in Chicago over 12 hours, including girl, 11, killed at sleepover
Shamiya Adams was sitting on a bedroom floor in her best friend's home, making s'mores after an evening of practicing a dance routine, when the shot ripped through the house...
Park Grill: Daley raised health issue, should disclose details
Attorneys for a popular Millennium Park restaurant filed a motion Friday stating their case for making former Mayor Richard M. Daley disclose in open court the medical reasons that his...
Archdiocese offers to shelter immigrant children
The Archdiocese of Chicago wants federal approval to shelter a yet-to-be-determined share of thousands of unaccompanied children who've recently breached the country's southern border, a request welcomed by federal officials...
Questions after melee at Montrose Beach
Edna Velazquez looked with frustration at the debris still scattered across the park at Montrose Beach Monday morning as a dozen seagulls picked at the six-pack rings and hundreds of...
At least 2 dead, 18 wounded in city shootings
At least two men have been killed and 18 other people wounded, including two 15-year-old boys, in shootings in Chicago Friday night into Saturday morning. In the Austin neighborhood about...
At least 2 dead, 18 wounded in city shootings
At least two men have been killed and 18 other people wounded, including two 15-year-old boys, in shootings in Chicago Friday night into Saturday morning. In the Austin neighborhood about...
Chicago’s life expectancy rose between 1990, 2010
Nearly a quarter-century ago, a newborn residing in West Garfield Park could expect to live slightly more than 63 years. A child's life expectancy at birth in the community area,...