The University of Chicago has been awarded a $3 million federal grant to create a new hub for advanced chip design, part of a national effort to rebuild U.S. semiconductor ...

The Chicago Plan Commission last week approved plans to rehabilitate and modernize the 59th Street Metra station, setting a summer 2026 construction date for the long-stalled project.

Florence Price (1887–1953) was a path-breaking American composer born in Little Rock, Arkansas, but she had a long-standing connection to Chicago. One of her most noteworthy achievements, becoming the ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday aimed at ending cashless bail across the country, a move that catches Illinois in its crosshairs as the only state to have ...

Following more than a year of uncertainty at the top, the Seminary Cooperative Bookstores has chosen longtime campus bookseller Kevin Bendle as its new executive director.

The Chicago Plan Commission last week approved plans to rehabilitate and modernize the 59th Street Metra station, setting a summer 2026 construction start date for the long-stalled project.

After a long delay and intense political wrangling, Chicago Public Schools has a 2025-26 budget of roughly $10.2 billion that rejects high-cost borrowing and will only make a controversial pension ...

Judith “Judy” B. Daskal, 95, passed away in Mill Valley, CA on July 30, 2025. Born in Leipzig, Germany in 1929, she, her older brother, and parents fled Nazi Germany ...