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Mark Dykla of Westrec Marinas resurfaces the ice with a Zamboni machine at the Maggie Daley skating ribbon on Feb. 28, 2017.

Downtown ice skating rinks open Friday

December 17, 2018 at 1:43 p.m.

When Chicago’s ice rinks start opening Friday, skaters will pay more to rent skates at Millennium Park but less to enter outdoor rinks throughout the city. Admission to skate at...

A restaurant along Monroe Street was intended to go in this part of Maggie Daley Park, seen Nov. 13, 2017.

Maggie Daley Park restaurant deal dead

December 17, 2018 at 1:35 p.m.

The plan to bring a glass-enclosed restaurant to Maggie Daley Park is off the table, but Chicago Park District officials still hope to attract a restaurant to the popular site....

Preservation Chicago has suggested the city landmark the building at 6427 S. St. Lawrence Ave. in Chicago, where Emmett Till once lived.

Group pushes landmark status for Emmett Till’s Woodlawn home, nearby school

May 23, 2019 at 12:09 a.m.

About 2 miles from the site of the future Obama Presidential Center stands a more obscure building in Woodlawn where another prominent African-American once lived. The nondescript red brick two-flat...

Transportation activists want a section of northbound Lake Shore Drive north of 51st Street in Chicago to get protective railing now that a path on the lakefront is being moved closer to moving traffic.

Lakefront Trail users want guardrails along Lake Shore Drive

December 17, 2018 at 12:50 p.m.

Some Lakefront Trail users and transportation advocates — concerned about drivers veering off Lake Shore Drive and onto the path — are pushing for the installation of guardrails along sections...

Larry Cubalchini and Santiago Toledo relax on the Chicago lakefront near Foster Beach with their dog on July 21, 2013, before the beach's dog-friendly area closed nearly two years ago.

Dog park opens in Edgewater

June 3, 2018 at 3:14 a.m.

North Side dog owners who have missed taking their pets to Foster Beach since rising lake levels destroyed its dog-friendly area nearly two years ago now have a designated space...

City tests trash skimmer to clean Chicago River near riverwalk

May 22, 2019 at 11:45 p.m.

The city is embarking on an initiative to further clean up the garbage pooling in the Chicago River along the Riverwalk. "We get a lot of trash in the river,...

Chicago deflates plan to fly giant pig balloons in front of Trump Tower

June 3, 2018 at 3:58 a.m.

It looks like the pigs won't fly after all — at least for now. The plan to install four golden, pig-shaped balloons to block the Trump Tower sign in a...

Billionaire Chicago native Jennifer Pritzker, who retired from the Army as a lieutenant colonel and went public about being a transgender woman in 2013, took issue with President's Trump statement barring transgender people from serving in the U.S. military.

Transgender veterans take issue with Trump’s tweets

August 25, 2019 at 12:02 a.m.

Holly Schilling, a former Army sergeant who was discharged after disclosing that she is transgender, had hopes of someday serving in the military again. Those hopes were dashed Wednesday, when...

A pilot program on the South Side to combat rodents will use 25 enclosed boxes that provide a nonlethal liquid contraceptive bait in a feeding tube to make the rats infertile.

Chicago adds rat birth control to rodent-fighting arsenal

June 3, 2018 at 4:45 a.m.

Consider it birth control for rats. In a new pilot program on the South Side, the city's Streets and Sanitation Department set up 25 enclosed boxes that provide a nonlethal...

Dog statues on display downtown highlight police canine unit

May 22, 2019 at 11:44 p.m.

If there's an unattended bag left on the CTA, 4-year-old Arco and his handler, Chicago police Officer Bob Gilleran, check it out. Arco is assigned to the Chicago Police Department...

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