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Hull House, the Chicago social services organization that Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams founded in 1889 to help thousands of immigrants adjust to life in America, will close this spring because of financial reasons, the charity's board chairman said Thursday.
For six decades, civil rights pioneer Ida B. Wells was woven into the fabric of Chicago's South Side as the namesake of a public housing project.
A Chicago skyscraper architect, a New York City children's choir founder and a North Carolina scientist who studies how to prevent sports-related concussions are among the latest 22 recipients of the no-strings-attached MacArthur Foundation "genius grants."
Efforts to start a class-action lawsuit against "Three Cups of Tea" author Greg Mortenson in Montana now include Illinois.
There were no free cars or vacations. No favorite things or makeovers. No celebrity guests on stage — though there were plenty in the audience.
Oprah Winfrey's talk show ends Wednesday with an episode featuring only the talk show queen thanking her viewers and highlighting the lessons they have learned from one another over 25 years.
Oprah Winfrey wiped away tears as celebrity after celebrity surprised her during a farewell double-episode taping of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" that will precede her finale.
Oprah Winfrey has given the world 25 years of poets and politicians, A-list actors and musicians and talk show topics that defined and reflected American culture.
Lookingglass Theatre Company, an ensemble-based company that presents cutting-edge new plays and world premieres, was named Tuesday as this year's recipient of the Regional Theatre Tony Award.
Bleary-eyed Americans woke before dawn Friday to watch Britain's Prince William marry his longtime sweetheart, Kate Middleton, gathering before screens in living rooms and restaurants across the country to watch the spectacle of a royal wedding and the couple's first kiss as man and wife.
Bleary-eyed Americans woke before dawn Friday to watch Britain's Prince William marry his longtime sweetheart, Kate Middleton, gathering before screens in living rooms and restaurants across the country to watch the spectacle of a royal wedding and the couple's first kiss as man and wife.
It's two weeks until Americans set their alarm clocks for the wee hours of the morning to watch Prince William marry Kate Middleton, and already the royal fever is heating up across the Atlantic Ocean.
Renowned jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis has composed songs over the decades of his career — a special piece for a certain performance or a new melody for an album.
"Project Runway" host Tim Gunn and actresses Taraji Henson and Olivia Wilde have a "no fur" message for designers showing collections at New York Fashion Week.
Before Marge Simpson, Amy Winehouse or Audrey Hepburn wore their hair in the famous beehive, there was Margaret Vinci Heldt and her salon on Chicago's ritzy Michigan Avenue.
The bar is buzzing on a busy night at Chicago Cut steakhouse as regulars Keith and Peg Bragg sit at a high table scanning the wine list.
A half-dozen years ago iconic chocolatier Fannie May, loved by Chicago candy devotees who passed down their affections for mint meltaways, caramels and vanilla buttercreams from generation to generation, was all but finished.
Cancer may have robbed Roger Ebert of the ability to eat, but it won't stop him from dishing out cooking advice.
Charitable giving fell by 3.6 percent last year as Americans continued to struggle with the recession, though some philanthropic experts feared the decrease could have been much worse given the economic downturn, according to an authoritative annual survey released Wednesday.
Will it be his pork with green tomatillo-avocado salsa, or the duck breast in red chile-apricot mole?
An investigator says the head of Chicago's commuter rail service who committed suicide last week by stepping in front of a train had admitted to forging a signature to collect an unauthorized $56,000 bonus.
The executive director of Chicago's Metra commuter train service was struck and killed by one of the company's trains early Friday, a week after an investigation began into claims he received an unapproved $56,000 bonus.
The jobless rate in Illinois rose slightly to 11.5 percent in March and the state was ranked 9th nationally for its foreclosure rate in the first three months of the year, according to data released Thursday that economists say indicate the state's recovery is sluggish at best.
Third-grader Jillian Beckman and her grandmother Sally Beckman peered through the glass, looking at the miniature rooms at The Art Institute of Chicago before deciding that their favorite tiny pieces in the intricately crafted historic spaces were the beds.
The signs of Maria Pinto's rise were clear when Michelle Obama entered the world stage wearing her designs, also favored by Oprah Winfrey.
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