A 30 year agreement between the City of Chicago and Commonwealth Edison to provide electricity to city residents expires at the end of the year. A growing number of activists and aldermen wants to take ComEd out of the picture.
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Delphine Cherry has lost not one but two of her children to gun violence. She spoke to her daughter, Tamika Howard, at the Chicago StoryCorps booth about living with pain.
Richard Miller, from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine says last month's executive order is a good start, but more will be needed to deal with Illinois' opioid crisis.
Chicago Police Board members did not review key evidence about Sgt. Khalil Muhammad’s off-duty shooting of an unarmed teenager with autism before they decided in December to keep him on the force, a WBEZ investigation has found.
Erosion is becoming a bigger problem for those living along an ever-rising Lake Michigan. Residents and officials in Northwest Indiana say the situation is being made worse by their state’s inaction.
Tony Sarabia moved to Iowa last year after retiring as a host at WBEZ, and he give us the highs and lows of Monday night’s Caucus.
Four-year college isn't right for all students, and a group in north suburban Waukegan says that's OK.
Sunshine couldn't draw out the usual parade crowds. But officials stress that the risk of contracting the virus in Illinois remains low.
The Chicago police pension board had approved a pension for former Officer William Pruente but reversed itself Thursday.
A significant collection of 87 paintings and sculpture created by African American artists are up for auction Thursday in New York City. The collection is another asset being sold off by Chicago-based Johnson Publishing.
The Chinatown Chamber of Commerce says the coronavirus is not a danger in the Chicago neighborhood. Chinatown is getting ready for this weekend’s New Year celebration and parade.
A former executive for Planned Parenthood of Illinois was arrested earlier this month and charged this week with stealing more than $100,000 from the organization.
The U.S. Census Bureau has not yet reached its goal to hire 30,000 workers in Illinois for the decennial headcount to be conducted this spring. Officials said a number of challenges are getting in the way.
Some migrant parents send their children across the border without them to escape harsh living conditions. They ask: "What would you do?"
A report out Monday finds that Chicago police are focusing their prostitution enforcement efforts almost exclusively on people selling sex, rather than sex buyers or traffickers.
Mark Medrano wanted to get the attention of people who were bullying him at his Chicago high school when he was a freshman, so he posted threatening messages on Facebook.
Last fall, Michael Ferro sold his shares of Tribune Publishing to Alden Global Capital. Rick Edmonds from the The Poynter Institute for Media Studies has been tracking the controversial hedge fund.
The Iowa caucuses are less than two weeks away and the state is filled with volunteers campaigning for their favorite candidates. Over the weekend, more than 100 teenagers from the Chicago area joined them.