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The giant Christmas tree that will light up Chicago's Millennium Park this holiday season has been selected -- and it's one of the "largest" in city history.   Beginning at 10 a.m. Monday, a 68-f...

The philanthropic arm of Sandals Resorts, The Sandals Foundation, has activated its Relief Mission with one hundred percent (100%) of every dollar going directly to the organization's emergency respon...

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 chang...

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 fun...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 - tho...

A balloon museum full of inflatable, interactive installations will soon land in Chicago. EmotionAir, a traveling exhibit that has stopped in cities across the globe, will pop-up in Chicago beginning ...

Chicago has around 1,900 miles of public alleys citywide, but one has been a fixture of the Gold Coast neighborhood since 1909. A historic wooden alley stretches 530 feet right between the Archbishop'...