The North Lawndale Chamber of Commerce is demanding an apology and accountability from the Chicago Park District, after a ...

Chicago will host its fireworks extravaganza on Saturday, July 5, while suburbs like Northbrook and Oak Lawn will hold their ...

While 14-year-old Jeremy Herred fights for his life, Ald. Monique Scott questioned Tuesday why the park district hired ...

The Chicago Park District said it has launched an investigation after a lifeguard was charged with shooting two teenagers, one fatally, at Douglass Park in an incident last week. The park district ...

A lifeguard accused of shooting two teens last week, killing one, resigned from the Chicago Park District in lieu of being terminated and is ineligible for future employment with the district, a ...

Future of national public lands is precarious, but Americans across demographic and ideological lines value parks: ‘people champion their parks.’ ...

Here’s our guide to July 4 fireworks displays in the Chicago area, with shows from almost a hundred communities.

Ever since the Riot Fest punk rock festival moved from Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood to North Lawndale’s Douglass Park ...

The man-made peninsula that Meigs Field sat on was owned by the Chicago Park District. And for years, some Chicagoans, Daley included, argued the lakefront land should instead be used as a park, open ...

Martinez said he was “standing up for what’s right” when he resisted high-interest borrowing to pay for the new Chicago Teachers Union contract and city pension payment.

All of Chicago's 50 outdoor public swimming pools will open for the summer on Saturday, offering access seven days a week for the first time since the pandemic. Locally, the Washington Park pool at ...