2009: Due to budget cuts, the city announced it would no longer display a giant Christmas tree in Daley Plaza that was ...

Every holiday season for the past 10 years, a giant Christmas tree has lit up Chicago’s Millennium Park, donated each year by ...

The Chicago radio station announced Monday the return of its around-the-clock holiday music. Starting 3 p.m. Tuesday, 93.9 ...

Chicago’s 2025 Christmas tree, a 68-foot spruce, was cut down from the Glenview front yard of the Mason family on Nov. 3.

CARTHAGE, Ill. — The Legacy Theater’s production of “A Christmas Wish” will feature a local children’s choir and an adult choir. “We invite all experienced singers, children and adults, to join the ...

A choir teacher was exasperated with hearing slang like “67” in her middle school classroom. Rather than ban it, she asked her students to write and perform a song about it. “Some teachers get ...

Pope Leo XIV will celebrate Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Day morning, Dec. 25 — a custom dating to the pontificate of St. John Paul II. The Vatican announced Tuesday Pope Leo’s Mass ...

Jeramie Bizzle is a web producer for CBS Chicago. Jeramie began working with CBS Chicago as an intern in 2017 and returned as a full-time Web Producer in 2021. He has previously written for the Austin ...

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Fifty years ago, when Greil Marcus published "Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music," I was on the edge of 17, a high school senior living across the Red River from Shreveport, ...

The Department of Homeland Security says it has begun “Operation Midway Blitz,” a stepped-up mass deportation campaign spearheaded by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Monday’s announcement came ...

CHICAGO, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Several thousand demonstrators marched past Trump Tower as the sun began to set in downtown Chicago on Saturday, protesting U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to flood ...