Chicago's eastern boundary is formed by Lake Michigan, and the city is divided by the Chicago River into three geographic sections: the North Side, the South Side and the West Side. These sections ...

(Chicago Tribune archives) Mayor Harold Washington signs an executive order ending the city’s practice of asking job and license applicants about their U.S. citizenship and halting cooperation ...

Since President Donald Trump took office in January, Chicago has been thrust into the immigration debate as “ground zero” for deportations, in part due to its Welcoming City ordinance.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson proudly defended Chicago's sanctuary city status on Capitol Hill on Wednesday as he testified before a congressional committee on the city's immigration policies ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson argued that Chicago’s policies made the city safer and allowed residents to help the police solve crimes without fear of deportation. By Mitch Smith Reporting from Chicago ...

Patrick L. Pyszka/DCASE Share Celebrating art, music, dance, aerial marvels, food and more are just some of the ways the Chicago area comes together each year through myriad city-sponsored ...

The Chicago jazz sound amounts to a sum of the city’s Black histories: In it you can usually hear something of the snowy, clamoring traffic in Richard Wright’s “Native Son,” from 1940 ...