Loved ones gather for funeral to honor Rick Garcia, longtime Chicago LGBTQ+ advocate

Rick Garcia, a longtime LGBTQ+ advocate, is known for playing a key role in Chicago's human rights ordinance. He died earlier ...

Chicago gets its first-ever LGBTQ+ affairs director, Antonio King

King was the first gay Black man ever to serve as LGBTQ+ health & outreach liaison for the Chicago Department of Public ...
The Christian Science Monitor

Rahm Emanuel for president? A Monitor event with Chicago’s former mayor.

Rahm Emanuel, former White House chief of staff and former member of Congress (among other high-profile roles), appears to be ...

Mayor Johnson appoints Chicago's first-ever director of LGBTQ + affairs

Mayor Brandon Johnson appointed a longtime LGBTQ advocate and city employee to, what Johnson calls, the nation's first big ...

Amazon gets approval to build massive retail concept in Orland Park

Amazon is set to open what it calls the “first-of-its-kind” retail store in Orland Park after receiving the final approval ...
Bleed Cubbie Blue on MSN

The Cubs need to move their annual convention out of the Sheraton

The overcrowding at last weekend’s event angered many fans.
Opinion

Editorial: Parking meter deal from hell is a Chicago nightmare. Can the city exorcise this devil?

Mayor Rahm Emanuel managed to swap some things around in 2013, mostly in a revenue-neutral kind of way, adding an evening hour of paid parking to sub for free Sunday parking in some neighborhoods ...

Johnson abandons costly plan to buy back Chicago’s parking meters

While Mayor Johnson would not confirm reports today that the price to buy back the city’s parking meters was $3 billion, as ...