Thousands of people packed the sanctuary of House of Hope in Pullman last Friday morning for a five-hour homegoing service for the late Rev. Jesse Jackson. The March 6 funeral ...

Neighborhood residents and shoreline preservation advocates continued their campaign to preserve the character of a stretch of Kenwood shoreline last week, pressing their case directly to officials ...

Paul Sereno, a University of Chicago paleontologist, and his team were in the heart of the Sahara Desert in 2019 when they came across scattered teeth — fossils from some ...

Kurt Weill’s “Der Silbersee” is only very infrequently staged because it is quite long, has huge stretches of German dialogue ...

When Kayleigh White opened a plain white envelope stamped “UNDUE” in big, bold blue letters late last year, she threw it away ...

Klaus Mäkelä, who becomes the new music director of the CSO with the 2027–28 season, returned to Chicago last week to lead an ...

The Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company, Inc. has been bringing effervescent operetta productions to Hyde Park since 1960. This year’s production of “The Gondoliers” continued the company’s grand tradi ...

A Chicago nonprofit is awarding $340,000 in grants to fund arts projects near public transit hubs on the South and West sides ...

Saturday Soul Pop-Ups: S trugglebeard Bakery launches a Women’s History Month pop-up series featuring women-owned businesses.

Hyde Park Union Church has been awarded a $163,838 city grant to repair its 100-year-old roof, part of the latest round of Adopt-A-Landmark funding announced in January.

A line of customers wrapped around the corner of the Hyde Park Shopping Center Wednesday as Barnes & Noble opened a new bookstore in the neighborhood. The store at 1524 E. 55th St., in space once ...