The Obama Presidential Center will open to the public on Juneteenth, the June 19 holiday marking the end of slavery in the United States, former President Barack Obama announced Saturday.

It was a tough end to a strong season for the Hyde Park Academy boys basketball team, which was trounced 54-33 by Leo High School Monday evening at Credit Union ...

As winter fades and the first signs of spring push through the soil, communities around the world are preparing for Nowruz, a celebration more than 3,000 years old marking the ...

Kurt Weill’s “Der Silbersee” is only very infrequently staged because it is quite long, has huge stretches of German dialogue ...

When Kayleigh White opened a plain white envelope stamped “UNDUE” in big, bold blue letters late last year, she threw it away ...

Thousands of people packed the sanctuary of House of Hope in Pullman last Friday morning for a five-hour homegoing service for the late Rev. Jesse Jackson. The March 6 funeral ...

Neighborhood residents and shoreline preservation advocates continued their campaign to preserve the character of a stretch of Kenwood shoreline last week, pressing their case directly to officials ...

Paul Sereno, a University of Chicago paleontologist, and his team were in the heart of the Sahara Desert in 2019 when they came across scattered teeth — fossils from some ...

Klaus Mäkelä, who becomes the new music director of the CSO with the 2027–28 season, returned to Chicago last week to lead an ...

A Chicago nonprofit is awarding $340,000 in grants to fund arts projects near public transit hubs on the South and West sides ...

The Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company, Inc. has been bringing effervescent operetta productions to Hyde Park since 1960. This year’s production of “The Gondoliers” continued the company’s grand tradi ...

Saturday Soul Pop-Ups: S trugglebeard Bakery launches a Women’s History Month pop-up series featuring women-owned businesses.