Daylight saving time will come to an end next weekend and people in much of the U.S. will get an extra hour of sleep. Clocks "fall back" at the end of daylight saving time on Sunday, Nov. 2. The change happens at 2 a.m. local time. Daylight saving time lasts for a total of 34 weeks in the U.S., generally span...

The Chicago Bears said in a letter to lawmakers earlier this month that they would set aside $25 million for Chicago and the Chicago Park District amid their stadium move to Arlington Heights. The funds could be used for maintenance of Soldier Field, support of park district programs, paying any shortfall of Illinois S...

In a near-future society, The Running Man is the top-rated show on television-a deadly competition where contestants, known as Runners, must survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins, with every move broadcast to a bloodthirsty public and each day bringing a greater cash reward. Desperate to save his...

Dictionary.com has announced its 2025 Word of the Year, and if you're not up to speed on this year's slang, you may be puzzled by the outcome. The online dictionary announced on Oct. 29 that its Word of the Year is "6-7" (also "six-seven" and "67"), a slang phrase popularly used by Gen Alp...

Framed by dinosaur fossils and elephant taxidermy, Harrison Ford recalled his childhood in suburban Chicago, spending his weekends at the Lincoln Park Zoo and wandering outdoors during his free time. It was on one of those adventures in his neighborhood that he came face-to-face with a red fox, and that encounter led t...

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Pope Leo XIV met with Mar Awa III, the leader of the Catholicos Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East on Monday, according to the Vatican News. The Vatican shared a photo appearing to show Awa III gifting Pope Leo a Chicago Cubs jersey. Awa III is also from Chicago; it's unclear if the gift was made as a friendl...

Forty-one-and-a-half years after the U.S. Census Bureau found that Los Angeles had displaced Chicago as the nation's second largest city, Los Angeles has displaced Chicago in another distinction - though it may be one that Chicagoans would be more than happy not to have. For 10 years, going back to the inception of the...