It’s complicated. Student protests are taking over college campuses across the nation. The turmoil over the Israel-Hamas war has inspired youthful fervor that is reminiscent of the anti-war protests of the 1960s. The Middle East saga has infected Ame

To write a few words in remembrance of Jay Robert Nash seems insufficient, for this was a man for whom a few words were never enough. During his life, which ended on April 22 of lung cancer after 86 active years, he once estimated that he had written

CHICAGO — The Chicago Police Department and its pension board have now each determined that former Officer Danny Golden was performing official police duties just before he was shot and paralyzed outside a bar in the Beverly neighborhood nearly two

CHICAGO — Renting out a Lincoln Park brownstone for $200 may be considered unusual, but a 300-year-old vampire who wears three-piece suits and enjoys Taylor Swift music wouldn’t know any better. After all, he has also been imprisoned in a vampire dun

Know that phrase “the numbers don’t lie”? It’s a lie. The numbers lie constantly. With the movies, as with every creative medium in which visionaries must cross the six-way intersection of greed, exploitation, risk, reward, art and commerce, it’s a m

CHICAGO — Dylan Cease initially thought of the logistics after being traded from the Chicago White Sox to the San Diego Padres. After all, the Padres were on their way to South Korea to open the season in March against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The ri

CHICAGO — Recurring anti-abortion protests outside a downtown women’s health clinic may soon be dampened by a new ordinance limiting nearby loud sounds. Protesters have targeted the West Loop’s Family Planning Associates clinic at the intersection of

CHICAGO — After the University of Chicago Police cleared a pro-Palestine protest encampment in a brief early morning raid, the main quad was calm with almost no trace of the student activists who had occupied it hours before. Students and faculty wal

CHICAGO — The NFL is expected to pull back the curtain this week on the most anticipated schedule for Chicago Bears fans in five years. At this time in 2019, the Bears were coming off a 12-4 season — only two teams had a better record — and hope was

The last thing most business owners want is to be taxed and regulated, but hemp business owners are asking for just that — as a way to keep their industry alive. Hemp entrepreneurs came out Tuesday in favor of a state legislative proposal to license

More than 1,000 residents and fellows at University of Chicago Medicine have voted to unionize, joining their peers at other large Chicago-area health systems. The doctors hope to soon negotiate their first contract with UChicago Medicine. They’re lo

CHICAGO — A Chicago woman is facing charges after allegedly having sex with her ex-boyfriend’s 15-year-old son, then sending him nude photos, documents allege. Estefany Sierra Rios, 27, was charged Friday with three counts of sexual misconduct with a

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson announced Monday he is pulling his proposal to move migrants from downtown to a new shelter in the 11th Ward in the face of stiff opposition from Ald. Nicole Lee, the latest struggle between the administration and an i

A margin in the pages of her own life so far, the thwarted 33-year-old work-in-progress played by writer-director-editor Joanna Arnow has a name (Ann), and plenty of interests, notably musicals such as “The Phantom of the Opera” and “Les Miserables.”

CHICAGO — Chicago historian Jonathan Eig won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography for “King: A Life,” his 2023 biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., a bestseller widely recognized for its monumental scope and fresh findings. Even some previous King bi

CHICAGO — Sleep-deprived and anxious about feeding their babies, tens of thousands of moms in Illinois and elsewhere recently turned to a variety of Facebook groups offering support for breastfeeding, pumping breast milk and postpartum care. Direct r

Sexual abuse of juvenile detainees was rampant in youth centers across Illinois for more than two decades, according to a sweeping lawsuit filed Monday. One claimant was about 14 years old when he was raped repeatedly – sometimes daily – in his cell

NEW YORK — “So it must have been about 11 years ago and I was doing this interview,” says actress Megan Hilty, “and someone asked me, ‘If there was one movie you could turn into a musical, what would it be?’ ‘Death Becomes Her.’ Duh! That is the onl

Every day, 10,000 babies are born in the United States. These babies representing all races are born innocent. They do not know racism. I was born in rural Louisiana and was oblivious to racism. As a sharecropper, I worked 13 years without a paycheck

CHICAGO — A group of University of Chicago faculty gathered Monday morning on campus to express their support for the pro-Palestine encampment on the school’s Main Quadrangle a day after the university announced it had suspended negotiations with the

The U.S. consumer is increasingly tapped out, and the effects are being felt in even the strongest, most resilient brands out there. Exhibit A is Starbucks. The Seattle-based coffee chain, ubiquitous in the U.S. and increasingly a truly global franch

CHICAGO — The Lake County Election Board Saturday said they will use complaints filed against a Dyer man serving as a deputy election commissioner in November stemming from his actions on Election Day as a teachable moment for election workers. Five

Student protest movements in America are often messy and divisive, but they tend to be on the right side of history. If President Joe Biden doesn’t take the anti-war protests more seriously, he is likely to end up on the wrong side of history and the

CHICAGO — A month before what could have been an embarrassing trial, the city has agreed to a $5.8 million settlement in a lawsuit alleging Black employees at the Chicago Department of Water Management were subjected to years of racist and sexist slu

Belmont Cragin residents were filing into the cafeteria at Prieto Math and Science Academy last month to weigh in on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s signature plan to overhaul Chicago’s mental health system when they got unexpected evidence that the bold, st

A group of about 60 people organized by the Chicago Jewish Alliance gathered at Fullerton and Seminary avenues Sunday morning in response to an encampment set up Tuesday at DePaul University to protest the war in Gaza. Members of Chabad Lincoln Park,

CHICAGO — A billion here, a billion there — pretty soon you’re talking real money. The late Sen. Everett Dirksen may not have said exactly that, but he repeatedly raised that concern about spending tax dollars. For reference, $1 billion is more than

CHICAGO — As the temperatures start to heat up, the question around the Chicago Cubs is: when will the bats heat up as well? In a 5-0 shutout of the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday, the Cubs didn’t register their first hit until the third inning when lef