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Damage to Grant Park after Cubs’ rally displaces softball teams

May 22, 2019 at 11:19 p.m.

The Cubs are back to playing baseball at Wrigley Field, but their World Series celebration last fall in Grant Park has displaced many of the city's recreational softball teams from...

Cardinal Cupich gives Easter blessing to families victimized by violence

May 22, 2019 at 11:19 p.m.

Celebrating Easter Sunday Mass on the South Side, Cardinal Blase Cupich called up families impacted by violence and gave them a blessing to relieve their suffering and grant them peace....

A penguin love triangle at Shedd Aquarium

June 5, 2018 at 5:24 a.m.

At the Shedd Aquarium, Magellanic and rockhopper penguins are in the midst of creating perfect love nests using twigs and rocks in preparation for mating season. But a twist has...

Adults to pay more, teens to get in free at Museum of Contemporary art

June 5, 2018 at 6:12 a.m.

Beginning June 1, the admission fee to enter Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art will be higher for adults but free for teens 18 and younger. The Chicago Park District board...

Marshall Field's employee Cathy Hoffman looks down into the water of the flooded third basement at the downtown State Street store on April 16, 1992.

A watershed moment: 25th anniversary of the Great Chicago Flood

March 30, 2022 at 11:53 a.m.

Twenty-five years after the Great Chicago Flood paralyzed downtown — shutting down power and prompting an evacuation that would affect financial markets and bring business to a halt for days...

Teddy bear with gun features takes aim at gun violence

June 5, 2018 at 6:06 a.m.

A teddy bear on display Wednesday in Chicago is not soft or furry, cute or cuddly. It is metallic gray and has a gun barrel with a capacity for six...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

MCA will let more teens in free, ask more from adults

June 5, 2018 at 6:35 a.m.

Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art will be free to teenagers beginning in June, the museum announced Tuesday, but the institution may become more expensive for adults even as it adds...

Mark Dykla maintains the skating ice at the Maggie Daley Skating Ribbon on Feb. 28, 2017. The temperature at the time was 53 degrees.

Millennium Park ice rink, Maggie Daley skating ribbon lose attendance to mild winter

June 5, 2018 at 7:40 a.m.

A mild winter was a welcome reprieve for some from the bone-chilling cold that often hits Chicago, but it was not good for business for two of the city's outdoor...

A pedestrian walks past the mural "Whoot," by artist Tony Passero, at the intersection of North Kedzie and West Belmont avenues on a cold and wet Wednesday morning, April 5, 2017, in Chicago.

Chicago area expected to get hit with strong winds, rain, possibly snow

June 5, 2018 at 8:09 a.m.

A spring weather mix of high winds, rain and possible snow flurries is poised to wreak havoc on commuters throughout the Chicago area. Strong winds late Wednesday night could create...

Chance the Rapper holds a press conference at Westcott Elementary School in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood on March 6, 2017.

Chance the Rapper for mayor?

June 5, 2018 at 8:05 a.m.

An online campaign is urging Chance the Rapper to consider running for mayor of Chicago. The website Chano4Mayor.com developed by four 20somethings, states that Chicago needs a new mayor in...

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