Homeowners in all 50 wards could build coach houses on their property if a proposal before the City Council on Wednesday ...

DJ Funk, a Chicago-born musician and producer who coined the “ghetto house,” has died at age 54. Funk, whose real name was Charles Chambers, had been “bravely” battling stage 4 cancer ...

Fighting inequality with music: Pilsen nonprofit is awarded $150k to help young artists Healthy Hood, which provides Chicago youth with resources to create music and art, received the grant from ...

Chicago organization Gyrls in the Hood began with a mission to help teen moms and empower girls with information about their bodies, but now it's expanded to help new generations of women.

Last week the Chicago Crime Commission published some results of its investigation in a directory that might be called Hood’s Who.

The Chicago house music scene is mourning the loss an iconic figure. Charles "DJ Funk" Chambers died earlier this week. He was a pioneer in the unique Chicago music style Ghetto House.

The founder of the Detroit techno collective Underground Resistance performs at Smart Bar after a panel discussion at the MCA in December.

CHICAGO — Some of the best young ball players in Chicago battled it out on Friday night for the “Hoops in the Hood” citywide championship. It all went down at Seward (William) Park on the ...

Cook County prosecutors have dropped the first-degree murder charges against 35-year-old Carlishia Hood and her 14-year-old son for alleged shooting death of Jeremy Brown at Maxwell Street Express ...

More than 32% of Chicago homeowners fall in the “house poor” category. Nearly one-third of homeowners in Chicago are “house poor,” ranking second-worst in the Midwest and 49th out of 155 ...

CHICAGO — Some of the best young ball players in Chicago battled it out on Friday night for the “Hoops in the Hood” citywide championship. It all went down at Seward (William) Park on the ...