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Chicago, a uniquely meme-able city, was the center of a ton of jokes. Here is some of the internet’s best work. By Hank Sanders Hank Sanders lived in Chicago for five years before moving to New ...

CHICAGO − Over 100 years passed between World Series championships for Cubs fans in this great city, but they finally got one. And now, after 2,000 years, they've got a pope, too. Chicagoans don ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) celebrated the Thursday selection of Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native formerly known as Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first pontiff from the U.S. “Everything dope ...

Pope Leo XIV was formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago, where he was born before he was a minister in Peru. And while that has led to so many sports jokes and talk about bets that weren't ...

Sarah Jackson Abedelal, a former principal at a Chicago elementary school, was found dead on May 6, the day she was to sentenced for embezzling nearly $300,00 from the Chicago Public School ...

Ahead of the network’s 2025-26 schedule reveal next Monday, NBC has renewed Chicago Fire for a 14th season, Chicago P.D. for a 13th season and Chicago Med for an 11th season. The pickup is being ...

The man who fell from the top of a 21-foot-high wall onto the warning track at PNC Park during a game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday night is awake and alert.

The president and director of the Art Institute of Chicago faces an independent investigation amid a report that he stripped on a commercial airplane. James Rondeau is voluntarily taking time away ...

James Rondeau, the director of the Art Institute of Chicago, took a voluntary leave after a report that he stripped off his clothes during a flight to Germany. By Robin Pogrebin James Rondeau ...

Chicago finished this past month with 20 murders, according to data available as of Thursday afternoon. A WBEZ analysis shows that’s the lowest count of any April since 1962. The city’s 116 ...