About 28,000 runners ran the 8K-course that weaves through downtown and finishes in Grant Park. Temperatures hovered around ...

The unofficial start to the outdoor spring running season kicks off with the 2025 Shamrock Shuffle on Sunday morning. It's ...

AP photographer Erin Hooley has covered the annual dyeing green of the Chicago River in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day for ...

Some high schoolers may spend their free time playing the guitar at a local music store, and others might play the drums in ...

Two school districts from the North Hills marched in the nation’s largest two St. Patrick’s Day parades — in New York and ...

Anna Davlantes, WGN Radio’s investigative correspondent, joins Bob Sirott to share what happened this week in Chicago history ...

Illinois “The Prairie State” rounds out the top five with 1.26 million pints consumed and $12.02 million in spending. Chicago ...

Queen frontman Freddie Mercury started life in Zanzibar as Farrokh Bulsara and grew up going to boarding schools in India.

Lollapalooza 2025 takes place at Grant Park in Chicago from July 31 to Aug. 3, and one of the headliners is a big surprise.

Life’s passion: Peggy Montes, 88, carries a passion for empowering women and educating children through the museum she ...

Rick Kogan, who attended the city’s first St. Patrick’s Day Parade in 1956, reflects on seven decades of St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in Chicago.

Another holiday is in the books, a good time to reflect on what St. Patrick’s Day has meant for those of Irish descent in Chicago.