Like many in Chicagoland, I greeted last Sunday with eager anticipation of the Super Bowl. Our household started preparing the game day spread early, but rather than wings and dip, we set out pernil ...

Chicago is gearing up for a weekend full of St. Patrick's Day parades and citywide celebrations. Here's what you need to know.

The Chicago Pride Parade​ announced its grand marshals and theme for 2026 on Tuesday.

After Bad Bunny's Grammy wins and halftime show, interest in Puerto Rican rum is higher than ever. Here are the best bottles, according to Puerto Rican bartenders. To include Bacardí on this list is ...

The future looked brighter in summer 2021, relative to the year before. Mass vaccinations were beginning to push COVID-19 to the margins. George Floyd’s murderer was in prison. And it appeared that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marimar Martinez, the woman who was shot by a federal immigration agent last year in Chicago, is suing the Trump administration.

When Ismael Mendez was in fifth grade, he told his parents he wanted to go live with his grandmother in Puerto Rico, a place that had always “felt like home.” They agreed to let their ever-independent ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Murder charges have been filed against the suspect in a South Side shooting that may have involved two co-workers. Bobby Martin, 26, was arrested after the gunfire Tuesday at 94th and ...

A Chicago man has been charged in a December shooting in the Lawndale neighborhood. Prosecutors say Fabian Wells shot a man twice in the chest before fleeing the scene. Wells was arrested Wednesday ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Four people were wounded in a shooting outside a gas station in Woodlawn Wednesday night, Chicago police said. The shooting took place at about 7:12 p.m. in the 6600-block of South ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 15, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Front page flashback: Feb. 16, 1933 ...