The Elmhurst History Museum celebrates its new performance space this summer with a new 4th Fridays Concert Series, special ...

Kirsten Stickney/For the Sun-Times Share The years of struggling to attract high-level players and struggling to keep local talent home may be ending for Illinois football. Coach Bret Bielema ...

Free and open to the public. Duke Ellington Statue – 5th Avenue and 110th Street “Celebrating the Legacy of Duke Ellington” Presented by the Duke Ellington Center for the Arts in association ...

On January 10, 1957, during a snowy Thursday evening, the Duke Ellington Orchestra played a concert at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. The performance was taped by the school with sophisticated ...

"He thought I was this brilliant, talented writer, and I thought the world of him,” said one of the women. A former teacher at the acclaimed Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, D.C ...

Deerfield Public Schools District 109 will be presenting plans for a referendum to build two new school buildings and ...

A new report showed that declining enrollment in Chicago leaves about 150 of its schools half-empty. The report, authored by ChalkBeat and ProPublica, found that 47 schools are operating “at less than ...

Declining school enrollment has left 30% of Chicago public schools at least half-empty. The city’s failure to address this ...

CPS' 1,200 Safe Passage workers monitor the streets to keep students safe. They could face cuts as CPS confronts a $529 ...

The Chicago Board of Education selected City Hall employee Dr. Macquline King to be the interim CEO of Chicago Public Schools.

Jazz piano star Jason Moran honors Duke Ellington at 125 in a rousing concert with UT’s Jazz Orchestra, while the acclaimed Mnozil Brass delivers comedy, Strauss, and show-stopping brass ...

Last year’s show included D.C.’s own Anthony Anderson, a graduate of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. This year, the maestro is hopeful it’ll be someone else from the area, but the ...