CHICAGO — Hard to believe, but there was a time when pizza in Chicago was a novelty, not a given, when restaurants specializing in it got more buzz than a Brendan Sodikoff spot and squirrels could ...

CHICAGO — Chicagoans have long argued about where one neighborhood starts and another begins. A few weeks ago, DNAinfo launched an app allowing readers to have a voice and show where they think their ...

ANDERSONVILLE — The neighborhood that once was a hub for Chicago's lesbian community — known to many as "Girlstown" — is now home to more married gay men than hitched gay women, data shows. For ...

UPTOWN — The North Side rapper who was the target of at least two fatal shootings in Rogers Park in recent years was gunned down Friday morning in Uptown, authorities said. Two bullets to the back ...

LINCOLN PARK — New megamansions, some taking up to seven city lots, are popping up all over Lincoln Park while developers continue to scoop up land. About a dozen projects are in the works to knock ...

WEST ROGERS PARK — A West Rogers Park rabbi charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy in 2006 wasn't arrested until late last month, despite the fact a state agency substantiated abuse ...

PILSEN — On 19th Street — in the home where her mother died and her daughter was raised — Amalia Alejo scans the block. "Instead of more Mexicans on my block, right now, we have more Anglos," Alejo ...

Gold Star Bar's owner Susan Stursberg (l.) died in 2012; her mom runs the bar. [Gold Star Bar/Facebook] CHICAGO — If the walls of Chicago's oldest bars could talk, you would need to pull up a stool ...

CHICAGO — Walk into a hot dog stand and you'll walk out greasy and satisfied. That's the goal, anyway, of any stand worth its celery salt and presumably what's motivating you to begin with. It could ...

CHICAGO — You can still vote early in Chicago, but "voting often" is pretty much a thing of the past, some experts say. Chicago is famous for its history of people voting from the grave and for ...

LAKEVIEW — From its perch just off Clark and Belmont, The Alley weathered 39 years, the ups and downs of punk and goth culture and endless changes along Lakeview's central intersection. In the end, it ...

CHICAGO — David Moore won the open 17th Ward aldermanic seat Tuesday. The 17th Ward includes parts of Marquette Park, Auburn Gresham, Englewood, West Englewood and West Chatham. There was no incumbent ...