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TikTok, the popular video-sharing app, has come under fire for privacy issues.

‘TikTok seems too good to be true.’ Internet experts say there are reasons for users to worry.

July 11, 2020 at 9:01 a.m.

TikTok, the popular video-sharing app, has come under fire by the Trump administration several weeks after people used the app to flood Trump's Tulsa, Oklahoma, rally with fake registrations in...

Common Addams, a co-living building in Pilsen, features a workout room.

Co-living was on the rise among Chicago renters, but COVID-19 throws a wrench into the shared-space lifestyle

July 9, 2020 at 1:13 p.m.

Dannie Fountain moved from the West Loop in late May, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. But a few factors made it easier on her and the socially distanced...

Worker Max Garcia removes hedges on July 2, 2020 in front of a large home in the 3000 block of north Lake Shore Drive West that were obstructing the perimeter of park district land.

After a public battle, Lakeview homeowner digs up hedges in a battle over public land

July 2, 2020 at 3:17 p.m.

The hedges are coming down. A Lake Shore Drive homeowner used them to rope off Chicago Park District land as a private yard but after public outcry, he has agreed...

Daniel Mota and Peter Koun hold large Roman Candles designed by the store and offer them to customers buying fireworks at Uncle Sam's Fireworks store in Hammond on Monday, June 22, 2020. (Zbigniew Bzdak/baiduhai)

Huge local demand for fireworks leads to low supply just before the Fourth of July

June 30, 2020 at 7:12 p.m.

It's not your imagination. You've been hearing more fireworks than usual. Between homemade displays, and cancellations of popular city fireworks shows like the one at Navy Pier, Chicagoans have taken...

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