CITY HALL — Of the 804 new Chicago Police officers hired in 2017, 41 percent are white, according to data provided to aldermen Thursday. Some 35 percent are Hispanic, 17 percent are black and 7 ...

NEW YORK CITY — Hurricane Sandy hit the city after dusk Oct. 29, 2012, killing 44 people, flooding entire neighborhoods and subways, and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of residents.

WRIGLEYVILLE — In Wrigleyville, just a block from the home of the Chicago Cubs, rests an unassuming yellow shack where Tom Boyle has found the secret to time travel. Walk through its narrow door and ...

WRIGLEYVILLE — It wasn't so long ago that there were no night games at Wrigley Field. Patrick Lenihan remembers those days fondly. "We were prepared to live with Wrigley Field, but when I moved here, ...

DUNNING — Wrecking crews this week pronounced the end of Ralph Frese's Chicagoland Canoe Base, 4019 N. Narragansett Ave., which spent decades as an iconic craft workshop known as the city's last ...

HIGHLAND PARK — The famous glass and steel home that served as the set for Cameron Frye's house in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" is undergoing a historic renovation — and it's not because a bright red ...

RIVER NORTH — MK Restaurant, an upscale outpost of Chicago chain DMK Restaurants, is closing next week after 18 years in River North. The restaurant led by chef Michael Kornick at 868 N. Franklin St.

LAKEVIEW — For some, going to church is like coming home. And for others, that's true in an even more literal sense. But perhaps no rebirth lends as much scope to the imagination as houses of worship ...

A rendering of the future development planned for Hallets Point, which would include 2,000 apartments — 483 of them affordable — along with a supermarket, school and waterfront esplanade to rise over ...

MANHATTAN — An 18-year-old Muslim college student who claimed three men screaming "Donald Trump!" attacked her on a Manhattan subway platform was arrested on charges of filing a false report after ...

DOWNTOWN — At its beginning headwaters deep into northern Lake County, the Chicago River is no deeper than a few inches and just 1½ feet wide. Chicago's famous river begins with three forks that start ...

DOUGLAS — A tall, sleek white bridge designed to allow cyclists and pedestrians to cross Lake Shore Drive at 35th Street opened Wednesday evening. Mayor Rahm Emanuel was on hand, along with other ...