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Many research projects at Northwestern University are coming to a stop. The Trump administration is cutting $790 million ...

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While in Chicago, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said he isn’t changing interest rates as the nation faces a potential ...

Chicago Park District data shows how much costs for day camps fell in 2020 and how they've steadily risen back to ...

The maple and spruce violin was a gift from Cyrus Spurlock's older brother, who crafted it himself. Spurlock was sitting on a ...

Between changes at the National Endowment for the Humanities and a shake-up at Chicago’s DCASE, humanities organizations are ...

A nearly three-year upswing ended last summer, WBEZ finds. The first three months of 2025 had the fewest robberies of any ...

His family has no idea how to reach Yeison Rodrigo Jaimes-Rincon again after recognizing him in video of a U.S. official ...