News
Ald. Leslie Hairston (5th) is focusing her immediate response to the coronavirus pandemic on ensuring her constituents have food, housing and supplies for their children's continuing education. She said any comprehensive public policy response has to address the socioeconomic factors behind …
Aaron Gettinger
Reporter
When the coronavirus shut down Chicago theaters, Court Theatre canceled its production of Henrik Ibsen's “The Lady from the Sea,” which was supposed to begin previews on March 12.
A group of Black officials and activists hosted a virtual press conference Thursday morning, during which they called for the city and state to open up vacant housing units and suspend the ban on rent control, as well as a host of other measures aimed at mitigating the disproportionate impac…
Christian Belanger
Reporter
Latest News
- Amid pandemic, Ald. Hairston says her immediate concern is constituents' basic needs
- Court Theatre announces revised 2020-2021 season
- Hyde Park Office Depot location reopens after one-day closure
- Peters, Taylor and others call for progressive policies to combat coronavirus impact on Black communities
- Metra scales back changes to Electric Line schedule
- Bill Payne, new Polsky head of science and technology, brings background in development to role
- UCMC to receive emergency patients from Provident Hospital, where county seeks to expand COVID-19 capacity
- At virtual town hall, legislators and health officials discuss disparate impact of coronavirus on Black community
Sports
The Kenwood varsity baseball team will open its 2020 season with a new head coach, Romey Bracey, but the CPS has postponed the season’s opening games indefinitely. The Broncos were scheduled to open the season on March 16 against Carver High School.
Crystal Lindsey is completing her first full season as head coach of the Kenwood Academy varsity track and field team.
The Kenwood Academy Broncos boys basketball team’s season ended on March 7 when top-ranked Hinsdale South knocked them out of the state tournament 70-62.
Obituaries
Arts & Entertainment
When the coronavirus shut down Chicago theaters, Court Theatre canceled its production of Henrik Ibsen's “The Lady from the Sea,” which was supposed to begin previews on March 12.
James Ijames is a playwright to watch.
This week was the scheduled opening of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s new production of Wagner’s “Götterdämmerung,” the final opera in the Ring Cycle. But the three full Ring Cycles as well as two p…
Opinion & Letters
The proposal to close Cornell Drive, widen Lake Shore Drive, and transform Stony Island into a commuter highway is ill-conceived.
As the COVID-19 novel coronavirus makes its way across the United States, I have watched with bated breath as it has entered so many different areas of my life, just as it has for millions of …
