If it wasn't for Steppenwolf ensemble member Jon Michael Hill's stellar performance, the world premiere of Ngozi Anyanwu's ...

Blue,” the opera by composer Jeanine Tesori and librettist Tazewell Thompson, was to be part of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2019–20 season, but was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Amid ongoing talks to close Chicago’s projected $982.4 million budget deficit in fiscal year 2025, City Council batted back Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed $300 million property tax increase to help ...

More than $9 million was spent on mailers, ads, and text messages praising or savaging the candidates, according to a ...

For those who grew up on the South Side in the late 1950s, the sight of a makeshift fence of mismatched front doors ...

“The Marriage of Figaro” is one of the world’s most popular operas, regularly drawing in audiences both new and ...

Two University of Chicago students walking near campus were robbed at gunpoint early Sunday morning, according to the U. of C ...

An early morning accident on Saturday DuSable Lake Shore Drive near Hyde Park left two dead and four injured.

After a year of belt-tightening measures, University of Chicago leaders presented on Monday their plan to close a $288 ...

Former public school principal Jessica Biggs and songwriter Che “Rhymefest” Smith will join Chicago’s first-ever elected ...

A state pilot program designed to erase medical debt for 300,000 Illinois residents has already helped thousands eliminate ...

On a rainy Election Day, South Siders hit the polls to cast their votes in presidential, congressional, state, judicial and ...