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Businesses said they're being forced out of a West Loop building near Ogden and Carroll as Chicago migrants move in there.

CHICAGO -- Malachi Castner, 23, said he didn’t always sleep on the Blue Line train to avoid the cold and rain. He didn’t always start his day early by shooting up. He was once a teenager on his high school’s wrestling team. But it was after he tweaked his back while wrestling an opponent as a junior in high school and a doctor prescribed him OxyContin that he descended into addictive patterns ...

He’s giving it a couple more weeks. Chicago Public Schools parent Deepak Jha says he and his first grade son, Vansh, can only keep up their daily three- to four-hour round-trip commute on public transportation for so long. Jha was among the scores of Chicago Public Schools parents who received a three-week notice that their children wouldn’t have bus transportation to and from school this ...

Fans of Guinness won't have to wait much longer for the opening of their second American brewery next week in Chicago's West Loop.

A man was sentenced to six and a half years in federal prison Tuesday for carjacking a rideshare driver at gunpoint in downtown Chicago last spring. 

Filled with chorizo and wrapped in bacon, these medjool dates add sophistication to your weekend spread.

After months of hype and anticipation, Guinness’ Open Gate brewery will finally make its debut in Chicago’s West Loop next week.

The Guinness Open Gate Brewery Chicago is due to open on September 28, becoming only the third Guinness brewery in the world that people can walk in for a visit.

West Loop residents at a community meeting Monday night voiced public safety concerns and irritation about the amount of notice they’d received regarding a pair of migrant shelters opening in their area. Others said they were ready to help the new arrivals. One of the shelters, located at the former Cook County Adult Probation facility on the 1600 block of West Walnut Street, began housing ...

As revelers across the city this weekend waved flags and honked horns in honor of Mexican Independence Day, a chaotic undertone tarnished the celebration with the sudden downtown road closures that trapped drivers Friday and Saturday nights and bouts of mischief among the mostly peaceful street parties that sometimes escalated to violence. The weekend came with “lessons learned,” Mayor Brandon ...