The city has long had a fascination with South African jazz — and now with its visual artists
Lori Lightfoot, a 56-year-old former federal prosecutor and practicing lawyer was elected as Chicago mayor
The United States president’s successor, Republican Donald Trump, will be sworn into office on January 20.
The next Spike Lee joint needs to do more than add to the growing list of reductive and voyeuristic features and documentaries about the tough city.
Literary reportage adds to the hard facts a nearly forgotten texture that rewards savouring.
Award-winning chef Charlie Trotter – whose name is synonymous with gourmet cuisine – has died at the age of 54.
Chicago is plagued by deadly shootings where as many children die from guns every four months as were killed at the school shooting in Connecticut.
Singer Jennifer Hudson is one of 300 potential witnesses in the trial of her then brother-in-law, which started on Monday.
United States President Barack Obama’s ex-enforcer Rahm Emanuel was crowned mayor of Chicago on Tuesday.
“Howlin’ Wolf was the most distinctive of Chicago’s blues singers: his demonic howl was legendary”.
US President Barack Obama let his love for Chicago flow in a bid to capture the 2016 Olympic Games from rivals Rio, Tokyo and Madrid at Friday’s vote.
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/ 2 September 2009
Rio de Janeiro and Chicago’s chances of hosting the 2016 Olympics were boosted on Wednesday as they appeared to come out tops in the IOC’s evaluation.
Spain’s IOC representative thinks US President Barack Obama has the chance to get the 2016 Olympics for his home city, Chicago.
The Chicago bid for the 2016 Summer Games is strong and impressive, the chair of the International Olympic Committee’s evaluation commission said.
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/ 25 January 2009
Who says print is dead? A Chicago-based start up is hoping to revitalise the newspaper by reprinting blogs in hyper-localised free papers.
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/ 23 December 2008
A report, due out on Tuesday, is expected to clear US President-elect Barack Obama’s staff of any improper dealings with the governor of Illinois.
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/ 10 November 2008
An elderly woman has been living with two skeletons and a badly decomposed body of her siblings in a suburb of Chicago, authorities said.
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/ 9 November 2008
At 8 o’clock last Monday morning, the day before he was to become president elect, learned that the woman who had raised him was dead.
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/ 16 September 2008
Alaa Al Aswany, author of <i>The Yacoubian Building</i>, has a new novel,<i> Chicago</i>. He speaks to Maya Jaggi.
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/ 14 September 2008
The presidential campaign got nastier on Sunday as a newspaper revealed that Sarah Palin used her position as governor to give top jobs to friends.
Milton Friedman’s fans plan to set up an
institute in his name. Not everyone approves, writes Kurt Jacobsen.
A new exhibit at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago is designed to challenge United States immigration policies.
A revolutionary bodysuit has divided the world of swimming into the haves and the have-nots just weeks before the Beijing Olympics.
Senator Barack Obama said on Wednesday he expected to become the Democratic United States presidential nominee after next week and he is considering an overseas trip that may include Iraq. After a hard-fought primary season against rival Democrat Hillary Clinton, Obama said the general election race will begin in earnest next week.
Democrat Barack Obama accused rival Hillary Clinton on Saturday of ”stirring up” a controversy over the disqualified Florida primary election because it was her last hope of winning their party’s presidential nomination. Obama, an Illinois senator, is leading Clinton, a New York senator, in delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination to face Republican John McCain.
Prosecutors played the sex tape at the centre of R Kelly’s child pornography trial in open court on Tuesday, just hours after opening statements in which they accused the R&B singer of choreographing and starring in a video featuring ”vile, disturbing and disgusting sex acts” with an underage girl.
American Airlines cancelled 1 094 flights, or nearly half its schedule, on Wednesday to reinspect aircraft, a disruption that affected about 100 000 passengers and triggered chaos at the busiest United States airports. The airline said it also expected more than 900 cancellations on Thursday.
A transgender man who is six months pregnant said in an interview aired by Oprah Winfrey on Thursday that he always wanted to have a child and considers it a miracle. ”It’s not a male or female desire to have a child. It’s a human desire,” a thinly bearded Thomas Beatie said.
Take a second look at that signed Picasso print you bought on eBay. A ring of art counterfeiters has sold thousands of prints since 1999 bearing the forged signatures of Picasso, Miro, Dali and other famous artists to buyers around the world.
Parents should consider having repeated discussions with their children about many aspects of sex instead of one ”big talk” on impersonal topics linked to sexuality such as puberty, researchers said on Monday. The more parents talked with their children, the closer their relationships, wrote the researchers.
Defects in working memory — the brain’s temporary storage bin — may explain why one child cannot read her history book and another gets lost in algebra, new research suggests. As many as 10% of school age children may suffer from poor working memory, British researchers said in a report last week.
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/ 31 January 2008
Margaret Truman Daniel, the only child of former United States president Harry S Truman who was known for her mystery novels and singing career, died on January 29 after a brief illness. Truman was in college when her father, who was serving as vice-president, became the president following the death of Franklin D Roosevelt in 1945.