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Riot Fest Day 1: George Clinton rocks out at 82, Tegan and Sara fall in love with Chicago

Foo Fighters lean into nostalgia for their headlining set on the first day of the indie-spirited festival in Douglass Park.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 15, 2023

PHOTOS: Riot Fest 2023 Day 1 in Douglass Park

Olivia Jean and Parliament-Funkadelic kicked off Day 1 of the three-day music festival.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 15, 2023

Fighting gentrification in Little Village, residents look to create a housing co-op

Worried about being priced out of their community, a group is exploring how to buy a building together and live there: “I don’t want to leave,” one person says. “There are many people who love Little Village but had to leave.”

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 15, 2023

‘We all have a soft spot for treats,’ artist behind new Pilsen mural says

The artist who goes by the name Luyu says she hopes the mural on Racine Avenue near 16th Street helps people feel “their sweet dreams rekindled.” And maybe they’ll want to stop for ice cream, too.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 15, 2023

Bears, Justin Fields vow to fight energy drain

The Bears will need that passion a steamy Sunday afternoon in Tampa, where a victory would revive a season that started with all the sizzle of a wet firecracker.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 15, 2023

In one 1977 front-page photo at Southwest Side school, the human story of school desegregation era

Protests had erupted in Chicago as minority students were bused to majority-white schools. Amid all of that, two young girls, one white, one Black, sat together as new friends. One was my daughter.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 15, 2023

Parents worry as day care centers face funding crisis

Without the federal funds that saved the child care sector during the pandemic, the industry risks collapse, policy experts say.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 14, 2023

Lin-Manuel Miranda says he’s done with history musicals

The actor/singer/director was in town Thursday to herald the return of “Hamilton” to Chicago’s Nederlander Theatre.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 14, 2023

City Council OKs spending another $34.5 million on burgeoning migrant crisis

Alderpersons OK’d a $33 million Homeland Security grant to care for asylum-seekers and also agreed to spend $1.5 million in tax increment financing dollars to buy a 10.7-acre property formerly used by the Marine Corps and convert it into a shelter for up to 550 migrants.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 14, 2023

Threats against literature, libraries are oldest tricks in the book

What better book on this topic than “Fahrenheit 451,” Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel of an America where books are unlawful and “firemen” burn any that are found?

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 14, 2023