At times, 2025 brought deadly chaos to Chicago’s shimmering downtown: An 18-victim mass shooting in River North, the worst the city’s seen in years. The annual Christmas tree lighting marred by two ...

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Service on the CTA Yellow Line between Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood and suburban Skokie was suspended during the morning rush Tuesday, after a car went off the rails. A notice was posted at 4:45 ...

On Nov. 25, 1936, a young Oxford professor delivered a lecture to the British Academy in London about the Old English epic “Beowulf.” Ronald, as the professor’s friends called him, argued that ...

Chicago police are investigating after a woman was sexually assaulted on CTA property in the Loop early Thursday morning. Police said a 35-year-old woman was on CTA property in the 200 block of South ...

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Federal transit authorities have threatened to withhold CTA funding over reports of “high crime rates” on Chicago’s bus and train lines, weeks after a woman was set on fire on board a Blue Line train ...

President Donald Trump’s administration has issued a blistering order for the city and state to come up with a safety plan to boost police on the CTA and take other steps or once again risk vital ...

The tower at 211 N. Ervay, pictured on the left, sold in April to developers planning to convert the offices to apartments. Tom Fox / Staff Photographer An 18-story tower in downtown Dallas is back on ...