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Eddie Powell, 66, plays pool in roller skates at The Rink on Oct. 3, 2019.

After decades of running Chatham’s home of ‘JB style’ skating, owners of the Rink are retiring: ‘The skaters have been long faithful. They’ve been family.’

October 19, 2019 at 1:00 a.m.

The idea to start the Rink, a roller-skating center on the South Side, came to Carmen Clark and Nate Simpson simply — they were exhausted from driving to the suburbs...

Former first lady Michelle Obama, left, prepares to embrace poet Elizabeth Alexander following their talk on a stage at the Marriott Marquis during the second day of the Obama Foundation summit in 2017. Alexander currently leads the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

With a $1M-plus donation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation listed among top donors in Obama Foundation’s third-quarter financial report

October 15, 2019 at 5:39 p.m.

The Obama Foundation pulled in only one new big-money donor in the third quarter of 2019, and that million-dollar-plus donation came from a foundation led by a close family friend...

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle presents her 2019 budget on Oct. 10, 2019.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle says her $6.2 billion proposed budget is ‘responsible and responsive’

October 10, 2019 at 8:06 p.m.

As the person who has the job she wanted wrestles with closing an $838 million city of Chicago budget gap, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle on Thursday presented a...

Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle listens to citizens' comments before the start of the Cook County Board meeting July 25, 2019.

Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle says her $6.2 billion budget has no new taxes and fees

October 9, 2019 at 8:11 p.m.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle on Thursday will present a $6.2 billion spending plan that her administration says covers the smallest deficit she has faced since taking office in...

Former first lady Michelle Obama walks on stage during the first stop of her "Becoming" book tour at the United Center on Nov. 13, 2018. Her new book comes out Nov. 19, 2019.

Michelle Obama to release second book next month, with questions and quotes for readers to reflect on themselves

October 7, 2019 at 2:59 p.m.

Nearly a year after kicking off a rock star-style book tour that sold out stadiums across the country, former first lady Michelle Obama has announced the publication of her second...

Chicagoans line up at City Hall on the last day to purchase vehicle city stickers in 2014.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to offer motorists relief from fines and fees related to city stickers

September 27, 2019 at 5:53 p.m.

Keeping true to one of her campaign promises, Mayor Lori Lightfoot will roll out a new program to help relieve motorists burdened by fees and fines related to city stickers,...

Angela and Peter Hurlock at their home in the South Chicago neighborhood in 2008.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot nominates South Side resident as Chicago Housing Authority board chair

September 20, 2019 at 6:45 p.m.

At a moment when there is increasing focus on affordable housing in the city, Mayor Lori Lightfoot has selected a South Side resident who has spent more than a decade...

Yusuf Hasan poses in Chicago's Washington Park during a reunion for former residents of the Ida B. Wells Homes on Sept. 1, 2019. Hasan grew up in the Wells complex with his 12 siblings between 1945 and the 1960s.

For former Chicago public housing residents, the complexes are gone but their sense of community remains

September 6, 2019 at 1:00 a.m.

They sat in colorful folding chairs spread out in the South Commons neighborhood's Paul Laurence Dunbar Park, telling stories about old times and showing off cellphone photos of their grandchildren....

Chicago Housing Authority CEO Eugene E. Jones Jr., shown in 2016, has resigned.

After more than 4 years at the helm, Chicago Housing Authority boss resigns abruptly but will stay on until Sept. 27

August 21, 2019 at 6:09 p.m.

In a move that surprised many, Eugene E. Jones Jr. abruptly resigned his position as head of the Chicago Housing Authority without reason after serving for more than four years...

Michelle Duster, left, great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells, is embraced by Ald. Sophia King, 4th, during a ceremony to unveil the renaming of Congress Parkway to Ida B. Wells Drive at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago on Feb. 11, 2019.

Descendants of iconic African American Chicago figures, like Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Fred Hampton, often struggle to manage the stories of their famous relatives

August 19, 2019 at 1:00 a.m.

Her name is now emblazoned on a major downtown thoroughfare, attached to a nationally recognized journalism training program and even used by a soul food restaurant in Baltimore. For decades,...

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