Two years after the Chicago-area arm of the Passionists religious order announced it would establish a sex offender registry of abusive members, the Catholic group hasn’t done so. Its leaders won’t say why or whether that’s still in the…
Soon after Gov. JB Pritzker took office in 2019, his administration pointed to Aunt Martha’s Integrated Care Center on the South Side as a model for how Illinois would serve abused foster children with mental health diagnoses.
The formal term for what the Trump Cult has visited upon the Haitian residents of Springfield, Ohio is "blood libel." Although foreigners and outsiders have doubtless been blamed for everything from droughts and floods to outbreaks of…
DEAR ABBY: I enjoy helping my friends, my partner and family members. I feel doing good deeds is important in my retirement. My hands are pretty full with getting my elderly dad to medical visits, and I also visit him three times a week. I…
Workers for the city of Chicago and its sister agencies owe more than $18 million in unpaid parking tickets, utility bills and other fees as Mayor Brandon Johnson has a nearly $1 billion budget gap looming next year.
Using design wizardry, Mickey Loewenstein built the cozy neighborhood movie theater set for WTTW-Channel 11 that helped launch the television careers of dueling movie critics Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times and his Chicago Tribune…
The city should freeze the number of shelter beds until further analysis is done to determine how many would be needed under a new system that would merge services for people experiencing homelessness and for newly arrived immigrants,…
We are approaching an important election for American democracy, and the League of Women Voters of Illinois is committed to fighting the onslaught of misinformation and disinformation the public is seeing.
Following the "Eating Pets" imbroglio, one would think that undecided voters would have their doubts quelled about how to vote in November. What more is there to say?
On paper, Lalah Hathaway is an incredible five-time Grammy Award winning R&B singer, Oscar nominee, part of jazz fusion act Snarky Puppy, and go-to collaborator for the likes of Pharrell Williams, Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Dre, Anderson. Paak…
MIAMI — Shohei Ohtani looked up at a visiting crowd that turned out to cheer him and the Los Angeles Dodgers — and ended up getting to witness one of the greatest individual performances, and seasons, in major league history.
The Chicago Transit Authority's boss laid out his dreams of how much better bus and train system could be — if only state lawmakers would give his agency adequate funding.
At an age when many are winding down their careers or already have given up on their dreams, Chicagoan and first-time feature filmmaker Duane Edwards believes he is just getting started.
Mayor Brandon Johnson was accused Thursday of picking a new police-related fight with the City Council that has nothing to do with ShotSpotter — this time surrounding the longstanding demand for a new Southwest Side police district to…