1927: The Stevens Hotel — then the largest hotel in the world — opened on Michigan Avenue. The $30 million, 28-story towers contained 3,000 rooms, an 18-hole rooftop miniature golf course complete ...

Alves plays for Team Brazil in two exhibition games against top WNBA teams ...

There’s something inherently dangerous about traveling alone across the country. America is wide, vast, and in many ways experiencing a constitutional crisis. Throw in the added layers of being female ...

Lisa Knapp is the director of Spirit Volleyball Club of Burlington and is shown with her daughter, Madalynn, an 18U player, ...

Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Jump-starting the 2027 Chicago city elections, a business-backed group says it has raised $10 million to back candidates and policies that ...

Longtime lobbyist Guy Chipparoni has been appointed to become the new chairperson of Choose Chicago, the city’s tourism and convention agency. Choose Chicago, via USA TODAY Share A clout-heavy ...

Things I learned by embedding with the tourists: the Ramones loved Yoo-hoo, Peter Stuyvesant was uptight, and how to do “a ...

Artist Jenny Jing Zhang uses watercolor paint, colored pencils, and a fountain pen to document the daily drama of construction and commotion on State Street, capturing the essence of the city ...

Months after the popular party and balloon supplier Party City closed hundreds of stores across the country as part of a "winding down" of operations, the brand's new owner says the company will ...

The Chicago Fire’s winless run continued, but they salvaged a point at home after a scoreless draw against Orlando City despite going down to ten men in the first half. The Fire (3-4-4 ...

The Double-A Frisco RoughRiders don’t throw no-hitters every day. But every time they do, it seems to be against the same ...

Photos: Seeing Chicago through the eyes of photojournalist Steve Lasker Steve Lasker, a pioneering photojournalist in Chicago, spent decades photographing the life in and around the city.