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A rat-shaped hole in a Chicago sidewalk has become a viral sensation, attracting thousands of visitors to the neighborhood street it occupies. That has tormented the people who actually live there, ac...

The 2024 Oscars nominations have arrived.Oppenheimer leads the pack with 13 nods, followed by Poor Things with 11, Killers of the Flower Moon at 10 noms and&nbs...

We don't need to tell locals how amazing Chicago is because they already agree-it's one of the best cities in the world. Time Out has released its 2024 list of the Best Cities in the World, with ...

Two Illinois restaurants made Yelp’s highly anticipated list of “Top100 Places to Eat” for 2024, a post from the review site said Tuesday.The list, Yelp said, analyzed Yelp user nomi...

Brookfield Zoo will again celebrate an unhappy Valentine’s Day.The zoo will offer the chance to name a cockroach in honor of an un-special person in your life.For a $15 donation, a Madagascar hi...

Billions of cicadas are expected to emerge this spring in an occurrence that has been described as “once in a lifetime” — and Illinois will be at the center of it.The 2024 cicad...

Hall of Fame second baseman Ryne Sandberg, who played 15 seasons for the Chicago Cubs, announced on Instagram that he has been diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer and has begun treatme...

As you may have guessed, rush-hour traffic in some cities is worse than in others. Navigation software company TomTom recently released its annual Traffic Index for 2023, using more than 600 million i...

Some culprit filled in a Northside Chicago neighborhood landmark affectionately called by residents the "rat hole."The indentation in the pavement on West Roscoe Street resembles the outline of a rat,...

A recent survey named the top U.S. cities for threesomes and open relationships. 3Fun, which describes itself as "the world’s leading dating app for sexually free singles and partners to meet li...