Summer festivals are struggling to stay relevant, yet there are more of them than ever. That apparent contradiction plays out across North America every year, never more so than in Chicago, in many ways the unofficial capital of the summer-festival…
The Oak Park and River Forest High School board has decided to reprint the 2018-2019 yearbook after more than a dozen photos of students engaging in the “circle game” were discovered inside. The high school will pay Jostens $53,794 to…
Metra has revised its weekday schedule on the busy BNSF line to Aurora, which includes new morning and afternoon trains to relieve crowding. The commuter railroad also is adding a train in each direction to the weekend schedule as part of a summer…
A man identified as a suspect in a 2015 fatal Markham nightclub shooting was shot and killed outside a Miami Beach nightclub. Ameer Golston, known as Chicago-based rapper AAB Hellabandz, was named by a detective in a legal deposition as the alleged…
CHICAGO — A teacher at Whitney M. Young Magnet High School was carjacked in the school's parking lot Tuesday morning. The teacher, 30, was sitting in her car on the 100 block of South Laflin Street around 8 a.m. when a teenage boy entered…
