For three horribly sweltering days in the summer of 1995, Chicago endured the deadliest stretch of heat ever recorded in the United States. The death toll ultimately numbered an estimated 739 ...

There is an ancient creature stalking the Democratic primaries: the Rahmosaurus. Hatched during the campaigns of Bill Clinton, the Rahmosaurus wants to make it known that he and his centrist brand ...

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The restaurant tapped Jennifer Kim to help focus the menu on Southeast Asia.

Two reasons: money and geology. In the early 1890s, as Chicago prepared for the World’s Columbian Exposition, there was a rush by private companies to build a public transportation system here ...

The former Cubs manager, who died last month, is best remembered for an expletive-filled tirade that left a lasting impression on this fan.

The building, red bricked, colonnaded, crowned with a white cupola, sits on a grassy knoll in northwest Hinsdale. Unmarked, unremarkable, it barely registers as anything more than a garden-variety ...

The voice of a pilot in a passing Cessna crackled through: “Oh shit.” “American, uh, 191,” Rucker radioed, “do you want to come back — and to what runway?” One second, two seconds ...

How does the catalog-loving retailer, famous for such eccentric and extravagant products as the Navigable Water Park, continue to survive in the age of Amazon?

He's the billionaire founder of the Chicago-based hedge fund Citadel. He's also a philanthropist, a political player, a benefactor of the arts—and a person with a penchant for privacy. So who ...

In 1982, seven Chicago-area residents were killed after taking cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules.

Chicagoland began sprawling in the wake of the Great Fire—and its infectious growth influenced the spread of other cities, laying the groundwork for suburbia as we know it.