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A burger and fries can set you back $24 at the upscale RL Restaurant at Chicago and Michigan avenues. And don't forget to tip.

What does the typeface used on the U.S. State Department’s website have to do with a crowdfunding campaign for a Cinnabon worker fired for using racist slurs?

U.S. Rep. Jesus "Chuy" Garcia has spent his entire public life fighting for immigrant families like mine — families this country routinely overlooks. His legacy is not theoretical. It is lived and measurable, and it has reshaped futures for people like us. Long before it was trendy to call yourself "progressive," he was doing the work and centering people everyone else treated as expendable.

DEAR ABBY: As my parents have aged, my father has been misremembering things or making wrong assumptions. It has increasingly gotten on my mom's nerves (she has also become more impatient and snappy lately), and she has been yelling at him in response. Sometimes, he responds back, but usually he doesn't.

Absorbing the news about the brutal treatment of detainees, to say nothing of the outright murder of "suspected" drug runners in the Caribbean, I think back to a conversation I had in February of this year. My interlocutor was a Donald Trump voter who had just had a friendly encounter with an African immigrant striver — the kind who came from poverty and had started a successful business here.

Strolling along the corridors of the former gear factory at Montrose and Ravenswood is like peering into an unfettered mind or taking a ride with the wildest of imaginations.

CALEXICO, Calif. — Before he strutted through Chicago as the lone unmasked face of the anti-immigrant “blitz” ordered by the Trump administration, Greg Bovino was the U.S. Border Patrol’s low-profile chief responsible for a dusty, rocky and remote 70-mile stretch dividing California and Mexico.

Supporters and company members gathered Thursday in Edgewater for the groundbreaking ceremony of Steep Theatre’s new home.

For as long as it’s been alive, Chicago’s employer head tax has been derided — in one colorful way or another — as a job killer.

The prelude to winter has pummeled Chicago with more snow this early than the city has seen in nearly 50 years, and people are slipping and sliding their way through uncleared sidewalks and streets. And they're complaining about it.

This year in particular it feels hard to tell what is really worth buying, watching and reading. Especially as we sink deeper and deeper into our feeds, curated by the ever-powerful capital-A Algorithm.

Moon Alert

Avoid shopping (except food and gas) or important decisions from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. After that, the moon moves from Virgo into Libra.

Aries (March 21-April 19)

An average day

In the early morning, you might feel sympathetic toward someone, or you might feel confused. Later, for most of the day, the moon will be opposite your sign, which means you have to go more than halfway when dealing with others. Be prepared to compromise. No biggie. Читать дальше...

We are only in the middle of December, but there are some key early-season conference clashes and several matchups featuring ranked teams, including a lengthy list of games Saturday and Sunday at the Team Rose Shootout at Mount Carmel.

On a snowy Wednesday, two days before their final move-out date, a group of people huddled over a desk in the lobby of the apartment building at 7500 South Shore Drive in Chicago.

Several historic Public League rivalries are struggling. Shifting conference alignments and schedules that prioritized matching the best teams up regularly short-changed the neighborhood showdowns that had been the lifeblood of Chicago basketball.

The federal appeals court in Chicago said Thursday it would continue to block the release of hundreds of people detained by immigration authorities, but it also rejected a novel argument that’s been used by the Trump administration to hold people in mandatory detention.

Two students from the University of Chicago and one from Northwestern University are among the 2026 Marshall scholars, the British government announced.

Chicago and Cook County officials are warning the public to stay warm as the city braces for bitterly cold temperatures this weekend.

Indiana lawmakers on Thursday rejected a mid-decade overhaul of the state’s congressional map that would’ve increased the odds of sending more Republicans to Washington, taking pressure off Illinois Democrats to jump into a national redistricting tit-for-tat started by President Donald Trump.

Kevin Kugler’s first opportunity in television was working the sidelines for a public-TV broadcast of the 1994 Nebraska Shrine Bowl, a high school football all-star game. A college student at Nebraska, he learned an important lesson that day.

Her voice trembling, the mother of Chicago police Officer Krystal Rivera asked a question Thursday as she announced a wrongful death lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department and Officer Carlos Baker, who fatally shot her daughter shortly after their romantic relationship ended.

How can you thrive while balancing multiple identities, especially as a young Black woman in the public eye? Can you gain acceptance as a basketball star and a model?

Lurie Children’s Hospital added four beds and 20 new staffers to the hospital's renovated inpatient psychiatric unit as a part of a statewide effort to address a major shortage of mental health care for Illinois kids in crisis.

After a quiet winter meetings for the Cubs to start the week, the team continued to add to its bullpen on Thursday, agreeing to a one-year deal with left-handed reliever Hoby Milner, sources confirmed. The contract is worth $3.75 million guaranteed, plus incentives.