The Thompson submachine gun was designed for use by soldiers in war, but Chicago gangsters made it famous as the Tommy gun, ...

Also this weekend, the Chicago International Film Festival gets underway and Jacqueline Novak returns to the Den Theatre.

The sentence was less than the four months that prosecutors were seeking for Joseph Weiss, who pleaded guilty in May to one ...

Hot’ times in Chicago The national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical “Some Like it Hot” stops briefly in Chicago.

The sit-down on Tulsa King Season 2 Episode 6 might have led to a death that will have lasting ramifications. Check out our ...

Tonight on the DER, we cover Harris’ recent visit to Detroit to shore up support from Black voters; the opening of Maya ...

In a town hall that Univision broadcast on Wednesday night, Donald J. Trump did not directly answer many frank questions on ...

College football is the most exciting, dynamic thing around. And we’re not talking about the games. Those are fun. But it’s ...

Oct. 11, 1924 Thieves make off with barrel of lard while bakers labor nearby Somebody living in the Seventh ward is either getting ready for a boat launching or is going to make a whacking big batch ...

We knew Trump’s economic policy proposals were unhinged. Until yesterday, we didn’t know he was barely able even to talk ...

Samuel Insull, who had Chicago's Civic Opera House built in 1929, ran a multibillion-dollar utility empire out of Chicago ...

Her work as an actor, director, and writer reveled in the possibility of capturing the spontaneous beauty of improvisation.