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Mayor Brandon Johnson’s failure to name a new Ethics Board chair has infuriated good-government advocates who have demanded that he do more to combat Chicago’s reputation as the most corrupt of ...

Chicago's restaurant industry celebrated its own at a ceremony announcing the winner of the local Banchet Awards, which also ...

Forecasters are anticipating two rounds of lake effect snow to dump anywhere from 3 to 6 inches of snow on portions of ...

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The lake, ancient and alluring, is the latest target for the active curiosity of that boosterish purveyor of history and civic pride known as Geoffrey Baer. Of Lake Michigan’s 1,638 miles of shoreline ...

Tickets will be available to the public starting June 13 at 10:00 a.m. through wttw.com/events and auditoriumtheatre.org/events. The American Revolution is a six-part ...

WTTW’s Geoffrey Baer joins Bob Sirott to share the new upcoming WTTW special, Chicago Works, that focuses on the people that work behind the scenes throughout the city. Some of the places he visits ...

Dick Carter was a prolific producer and director for WTTW-Ch. 11 who from the 1960s through the ’90s oversaw the making of dozens of music and arts programs, some of which aired nationally. Carter’s ...

Piping plovers are tiny shorebirds, about the size of a smartphone but a fraction of the weight. Chicago’s lakefront is famously open and free. So why is a prime section of Montrose Beach roped off ...