Gold Star Bar's owner Susan Stursberg (l.) died in 2012; her mom runs the bar. [Gold Star Bar/Facebook] CHICAGO — If the walls of Chicago's oldest bars could talk, you would need to pull up a stool ...

CHICAGO — Hard to believe, but there was a time when pizza in Chicago was a novelty, not a given, when restaurants specializing in it got more buzz than a Brendan Sodikoff spot and squirrels could ...

BROOKLYN — Every morning at school, 7-year-old Uriyah Sidof prays for extra recess. Literally, he prays for it — at Lamplighters Yeshivah, the Jewish Montessori school he attends in the heart of ...

SOUTH SHORE — Leonard "L'A Capone" Anderson, an up-and-coming rapper and friend of Def Jam Recording's Lil Durk, was shot and killed Thursday evening leaving a South Shore recording studio, his mother ...

NEW YORK CITY — Hurricane Sandy hit the city after dusk Oct. 29, 2012, killing 44 people, flooding entire neighborhoods and subways, and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of residents.

UPTOWN — The North Side rapper who was the target of at least two fatal shootings in Rogers Park in recent years was gunned down Friday morning in Uptown, authorities said. Two bullets to the back ...

CHICAGO — Chicagoans have long argued about where one neighborhood starts and another begins. A few weeks ago, DNAinfo launched an app allowing readers to have a voice and show where they think their ...

CHICAGO — Second City's offices were destroyed in a Wednesday fire, shocking those who follow the famous and iconic comedy company. The troupe, which started in the '50s, has trained and featured ...

WRIGLEYVILLE — Prices have been unveiled for the Cubs' four fancy new clubs, and as expected, the premier experience at Wrigley will cost a pretty penny. According to an article in the Chicago Tribune ...

CITY HALL — Of the 804 new Chicago Police officers hired in 2017, 41 percent are white, according to data provided to aldermen Thursday. Some 35 percent are Hispanic, 17 percent are black and 7 ...

WRIGLEYVILLE — It wasn't so long ago that there were no night games at Wrigley Field. Patrick Lenihan remembers those days fondly. "We were prepared to live with Wrigley Field, but when I moved here, ...

DOWNTOWN — At its beginning headwaters deep into northern Lake County, the Chicago River is no deeper than a few inches and just 1½ feet wide. Chicago's famous river begins with three forks that start ...