Martinez Duncan and Jeremiah Bush were locked in a Cook County Jail cell on Tier 5A when the fire started in their cell. People jailed on the tier called for help. At 7:15pm, an officer responded to ...

View of the Obama Presidential Center's campus from the Sky Room located on the eighth floor of the museum on June 3, 2026. Credit: James Hoeck After a joyous opening over Juneteenth weekend, the ...

More than seven months after federal immigration agents raided a South Shore apartment complex in the middle of the night, 17 victims, including six children and two U.S. citizens, have filed federal ...

David Chiko, one of the former high-ranking officials in Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart’s office who was implicated in an alleged ghost-payrolling scheme in 2022, was allegedly involved in misconduct ...

so i left it. there. and slammed my car door closed with my butt and went inside. yesterday. i happened to park in the same spot. mind you, it’s March. the can of pineapple juice was flat as Florida ...

The exhibit at the National Museum of Mexican Art highlights early railworkers and boxcar camps that formed on the South Side in the 1900s. Co-curator Ismael Cuevas points to a model railroad set ...

Children line up to play tennis at New Covenant Missionary Baptist Church's indoor tennis court, while Coach Tyrone Mason tosses the young athletes tennis balls. (Photo by Caeli Kean / South Side ...

When Angela Dugan founded South Side Tours, she wasn’t just launching a business—she was creating a moving oral history project on wheels. Since rolling out its first official tour in August 2024, ...

Some opposition to the pedestrian and cyclist safety improvements have been coordinated by the politically connected pro-charter school Urban Center and attempts to unseat the local alder and mayor. A ...

Voices rose downtown on Jan. 3, 2026, as protesters declared “No War on Venezuela,” calling for the U.S. to keep its hands off Latin America, a message seen on signs throughout the crowd. Credit: Paul ...

About 500 people packed Thalia Hall in Pilsen on Thursday night amid a torrential downpour to voice their frustration with the Community Commission on Public Safety and Accountability (CCPSA) for not ...

2025 is nearly in the books, and for once, there’s an argument that things are on the upswing. The bar is low. There hasn’t been a lot to like about sports on the South Side over the last decade or ...