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For 90 years, the Bud Billiken Parade has taken place on the second Saturday in August. This back-to-school celebration features bands, dance and drill teams, celebrities and an after-parade festival. - Pharrell Williams isn’t too “Happy” with President Donald Trump.
- Former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen is under scrutiny for over $20 million in loans obtained by him and his family’s yellow taxi businesses in New York, it was reported Sunday.
- The father of a missing Georgia boy was training children at a New Mexico compound to commit school shootings, prosecutors said.
- Former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized because of low blood pressure and fatigue, his spokesman said Sunday.
- The two mountain bikers did what they were supposed to do when they noticed a mountain lion tailing them on a trail. It wasn't enough, authorities said.
- A former tugboat captain responsible for Orange County's worst mass shooting when he gunned down eight people at a Seal Beach salon in 2011 was sentenced Friday to life in prison.
- To head off a presidency-destroying disaster, Republican leaders should warn Trump that if he tries to fire Mueller, the consequences will be dire.
- Congressional investigators will question senior White House adviser Jared Kushner on Monday.
- The last thing Ahmed Manhal discussed with his six cousins and nephews was what they were all going to cook for lunch the next day.
- North Korea has conducted a ground test of a new type of high-thrust rocket engine that leader Kim Jong Un is calling a revolutionary breakthrough.
- Elyse Stasil and Alexis Miestowski, the area's golfers of the year for 2016 and 2015, respectively, headline the Region's best.
- First lady Michelle Obama urged young people to get out the vote for Hillary Clinton during a speech Wednesday at La Salle University in Philadelphia, telling
- Poor, black and Hispanic children are becoming increasingly isolated from their white, affluent peers in the nation's public schools, according to new federal
- Massachusetts prosecutors say Michelle Carter sent her boyfriend, Conrad Roy III, dozens of text messages urging him to take his own life.
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- A fascinating collection of facts about a wide range of subjects, from Rahm Emanuel, politics and Chicago neighborhoods to underwear, blondes and twins.
- Comparing Chicago's population in key ways using census data
- Students to be tested on new and sometimes controversial "Next Generation" science standards.
- A new state science exam is a work in progress, but the state provided preliminary details on concepts and performance expectations that may be on tests.
- Mayor Emanuel is trying to solve police and fire pension problem by paying less upfront, taking longer to repay debt and getting help from a Chicago casino.
- A Chicago charter school could be the first independently operated educator to move onto Chicago Public Schools property shuttered during the 2013 closings.
- More than half of the aldermen who'll be sworn in Monday to the 50-member Chicago City Council are new to office in the past six years. Thirteen new alderman were elected this year. Despite the turnover, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is still expected to maintain control of the council. Here are brief biographies of each alderman:
- A lawsuit challenging Mayor Rahm Emanuel's changes to city pension funds will be decided by the Illinois Supreme Court, a Cook County judge said.
- On Sunday night, Kanye West spoke to a packed room of about 400 students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Here's what he had to say.
- Kanye West addresses the graduating class at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he received an honorary doctorate degree.
