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There are few places that rival parts of Black Chicago in terms of consistent disinvestment, segregation and other factors ...
Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the city of Chicago now pegs the city’s unfunded liabilities at almost $36 billion.
Steve Snower is resigning as CEO after 21 years, as the company names new leadership to guide its next phase of growth and ...
“What changes if any concerning disability and paratransit services are in the bill,” Bass wrote to a senior assistant ...
The fiscal hits just keep coming for Chicago, this time courtesy of the city’s representatives and senators in Springfield. The latest fiasco played out in the final hours of the General ...
Palumbo is familiar to Chicago audiences, following his 2022 debut here as guest chorus director with the CSO for Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera. He returned in 2023 for Beethoven’s Missa solemnis.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has hired Donald Palumbo, 76, the former chorus master of the Metropolitan Opera, to lead its chorus.
A new bill would rename the RTA and give it expanded control over CTA, Metra and Pace — including new power over fares, budgets and the CTA board.
On April 20, 1981, Spanish Catalan artist Joan Miró's famous Chicago sculpture was unveiled next to what is now called the Cook County Administration Building. Before the unveiling, renowned ...
Grace Palumbo Orr Scotia - Grace Palumbo Orr, daughter of Annunziata Cali and Nunzio Palumbo, has passed away at the age of 91. Grace was a character as colorful as any created in fact or fiction.
Chicago's mayor can't be recalled under Illinois law. A new bill aims to change that. Rep. LaShawn Ford has been trying to get such a mechanism on the books since 2015, in the wake of the fatal ...
Piece Pizzeria & Brewery owner/operator Bill Jacobs returned to the Chicago’s Very Own Eats podcast, and he brought a special guest with him. Bill and Doug Sohn of Hot Doug’s have t… ...