Giancana was the notorious boss of the Chicago Outfit for 1957 to 1966 — only nine years, but an eventful nine years. As ...

With a potential vote looming on a controversial ordinance that would allow Chicago police to declare a "snap curfew" on as little as 30 minutes' notice in an effort to curb teen takeovers, Mayor ...

The significant surge in shootings by officers in the first five months of 2025 comes more than six years after city and ...

The lack of a contract between the city of Chicago and Commonwealth Edison inked in the 21st century has tied the city’s ...

Chicago Children’s Theatre turns 20 next season. To celebrate, the company has planned a 2025-26 season that’s a fond look ...

Carter was executive producer of WTTW’s “Chicago Festival,” an award-winning ... Carter ultimately directed more than 60 episodes of “Soundstage,” by his own count, according to a ...

A two-man WTTW team headed by freelance producer and writer Edgar Vargas, who grew up in South Chicago, filmed Rodriguez a few days a week from August through November. “It was surreal at first ...

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This year, two icons of Chicago’s Latino community, which makes up a third of the city’s population, became official city landmarks. The 60-foot tall steel Puerto Rican flags marking the stretch of ...

Broadcast technicians employed by WTTW in Chicago have gone on strike after nearly a year of ... union employees must shoot video from a 200-mile radius around WTTW to a 60-mile radius. “I live 65 ...

More than 60 union members and supporters gathered outside the WTTW studios on a sunny spring morning Monday, along with two 15-foot protest rat balloons. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was among ...

As Chicago grew into a major metropolis, its river became an open sewer that fed directly into the city’s water supply. It took a crafty engineer named Ellis Chesbrough to come up with a startling ...