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Photo by Sarah Pflug from Burst If your home is in Cook County, you may have been overpaying your taxes since 2013. Good news: if you’re one of these people that contributed to what amounted to ...

Unfortunately, one iconic North Side cafe will not be open in this new year. Heartland Cafe, which was located in a Rogers Park building that’s over 100-years-old, closed its doors for the last ...

Photo by Matthew Henry from Burst Yes, Googling is a real word and Google recently let us know what Chicagoans were Googling in 2018. The top 10 most Googled items in 2018 were: 10) Van Dyke Trial 9) ...

From now until fall, O’Hare is closing its People Mover to the public. The 25-year-old train that moves people from terminal to terminal is undergoing a series of upgrades throughout the year. N...

Chicago wants to keep you safe this holiday! If you’re planning on going out to any of the many events going on downtown this New Years Eve, you won’t be alone. Chicago police will be aler...

Looking to move elsewhere in Illinois? Money Magazine recommends Wheaton. In their yearly article that ranks the best places to live in the U.S., DuPage County’s Wheaton, Illinois topped the lis...

If your kids are begging to stay up until midnight to ring in the New Year, Netflix has your back. Each year the streaming service hosts a bunch of short videos that come with a countdown that you can...

Richard Overton, who was America’s oldest World War Two veteran and also believed to be the oldest living man in the U.S., died yesterday (December 27th) at a rehab facility in Texas. He was 112...

Chicago will turn that beautiful tree of your’s into mulch. At 25 of their park districts, the City of Chicago is offering to dispose of your old Christmas trees. Free mulch from those trees wil...