Since it opened to the public on Dec. 11, 1933, the Nelson — whose east wing was originally called the Atkins Museum of Fine ...

One of Jean Ricker's famous police tee-shirt quilts will be raffled off at the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation's "Run To Remember" 5K.

"I Dream a World," the acclaimed new exhibition at the de Young Museum through July 13, marks the first major retrospective ...

Arlington Heights officials are pushing for a plan that could bring the Bears to the suburb -- and they've reached a significant step in that process.

"Designed to resemble 'four hands coming together', the building topped out in June 2024 and is currently receiving its outermost shell." ...

A $10 million complex will be christened in honor of the Motown Museum's late founder as the institution broadens its West Grand Boulevard footprint.

Seventy years ago this week, a hamburger joint named McDonald’s opened in northwest suburban Des Plaines. No one except for its Oak Park-raised owner Ray Kroc may have believed the tiny to-go place ...

The expansion follows the earlier acquisition of a Magazine Street building a block away, which also will be used primarily ...

A woman looking for a fresh start has given a previously neglected area of Chicago a do-over as well. Thirty-plus years ago, Lyn Hughes was a recently divorced mom of three, wanting to relocate to a ...

A story has the power to make the floor of a Field Museum exhibition hall feel like the center of the Arab world.

Shamus Toomey, Editor in Chief and co-founder of Block Club Chicago, joins Bob Sirott to share the latest Chicago ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Set inside a once-dilapidated 1938 building on Chicago’s near West Side, a one-of-a-kind museum hopes to change the perception of public housing in America. A former federal ...